Job Description

Overview

WM is seeking a Plant Maintenance Technician for the 3rd shift, offering a safer work environment, career progression, and financial stability for employees. This role involves maintaining and repairing various equipment to ensure the plant operates efficiently and safely.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct preventive maintenance inspections and diagnose, repair, and rebuild major equipment and components.
  • Maintain the Daily Equipment Inspections backlog.
  • Adjust work procedures to meet production schedules and inform the Sr. Plant Maintenance Manager of additional work needs.
  • Inspect the quality of third-party repairs and rebuilds.
  • Recommend improvements to enhance production, equipment performance, and product quality.
  • Multitask and manage multiple priorities with efficiency.
  • Respond to emergency breakdown service calls.
  • Perform work with limited supervision while maintaining high standards of performance.
  • Maintain a clean, safe work area in compliance with Corporate/OSHA standards.

Requirements

  • 2 years of relevant work experience.
  • Be over 18 years of age.
  • Legally eligible to work in the United States.
  • Ability to perform physical requirements of the position with or without reasonable accommodations.
  • Successfully complete and pass pre-employment drug screen and physical.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Life Insurance
  • Short-Term Disability
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Rotating days (4pm-4am) 2on 2off 3 on.
  • Required to use motor coordination with arms, hands, fingers, and legs.
  • Required to engage in physical activity that includes pushing, pulling, bending, and lifting objects more than 50 pounds.
  • Required to work from ladders or raised platforms.
  • Will be exposed to a physical environment involving dirt, odors, noise, and weather extremes.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Short-Term Disability
401k

How this job compares in Philadelphia, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $32/hr median for welding jobs in Philadelphia, PA, whose middle half runs $29–$37/hr across 12 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 33% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Philadelphia, PA

We're tracking 53 other active welding openings in Philadelphia, PA right now, from 31 different employers. 19 of them were added in the last week. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 254 other active welding openings from 159 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Philadelphia, or widen the search to Pennsylvania.

WM currently has 1 other opening live in Pennsylvania, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (12), Hanwha Philly Shipyard (6), and TradeWorx (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $32/hr and York at $25/hr. Philadelphia is among them.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Industrial Maintenance Mechanic 3rd shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.