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Overview

Gerber Collision & Glass is seeking a Collision Body Technician to provide exceptional customer experiences through quality vehicle repairs. The role involves meticulous assessment and repair of vehicles to restore them to pre-accident condition while working collaboratively with team members to achieve performance goals.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure consistent execution of WOW (Wow Operating Way) plan.
  • Plan repair work and prepare cost estimates for customers.
  • Use various tools to repair sections of a vehicle.
  • Hammer out dents and apply filler resins for repairs.
  • Realign car chassis and frames to repair structural damage.
  • Remove damaged sections and replace them with new or aftermarket parts.
  • Replace or repair glass and windshields as needed.
  • Replace or repair interior parts as needed.
  • Weld and fit parts into place and repaint vehicles.
  • Complete work orders within labor time guidelines.
  • Inspect vehicles after repair to ensure correctness.
  • Perform other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent required.
  • Successful completion of technical school program or a 3-year apprenticeship as an auto body repairer.
  • Ability to read job orders and work with little supervision.
  • Ability to work with other repairers within an auto body shop.
  • Thorough understanding of methods and procedures to repair vehicle bodies.
  • Thorough understanding of how to use tools required for the trade.

Benefits

  • PTO
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Must be able to work safely in a noisy area with many odors present.
  • Must be able to lift up to 30 pounds at times.
  • Must be able to visually inspect vehicle damage in various weather conditions.
  • Must be able to bend, stretch, kneel, and squat to perform repairs and inspections.

Benefits

PTO
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
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How this job compares in Morrow, GA

Pay in context

At roughly $28/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Georgia, whose middle half runs $23–$31/hr across 94 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 47% 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 Morrow, GA

Morrow, GA is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 268 other active welding openings from 145 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Georgia.

Gerber Collision & Glass currently has 8 other openings live in Georgia, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Georgia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Classic Collision (14), Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (10), and Gerber Collision & Glass (8). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Georgia, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Forest Park at $39/hr, Marietta at $30/hr, and Atlanta at $28/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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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. Collision Body Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.