Job Description

Overview

As a Maintenance Technician for the Publix Bakery Plant, you will maintain, troubleshoot, repair, and improve the performance of various equipment in a state-of-the-art facility that produces award-winning bakery products. This role is essential for ensuring the plant can produce the necessary volume and quality of products for customers.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain, troubleshoot, repair, and improve mechanical processes of equipment/facilities.
  • Perform preventative and predictive maintenance of process equipment.
  • Troubleshoot and repair mechanical, electrical, electronic, hydraulic, and pneumatic equipment.
  • Create requisitions for parts and supplies.
  • Build fabrications from steel, stainless steel, and aluminum as needed.
  • Weld using stick, TIG, sanitary TIG, and MIG methods.
  • Troubleshoot PLC and computer-controlled devices.
  • Perform minor plumbing and building repairs.
  • Read and interpret schematics and drawings.
  • Operate forklifts and high lifts.
  • Perform housekeeping duties in the work area.
  • Assist with other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • At least 18 years old.
  • Basic mechanical and electrical aptitude.
  • Basic knowledge of hand tools and tool use.
  • Willingness and ability to advance.
  • Willingness to complete a mechanical aptitude test.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Strong problem-solving skills.
  • Self-motivated individual.
  • Ability to lift in excess of 50lbs.
  • Ability to work well with others and be a team member.
  • Ability to demonstrate safe work habits.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
  • Flexible and willing to work various shifts.
  • Willing to work nights, weekends, holidays, and overtime as needed.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • The position offered is contingent upon the qualifications and work experience of the candidate.
  • Your application may have additional steps that you will need to complete to remain eligible for consideration.
  • Please do not use your Publix email address when applying.
  • Publix does not and will not file a petition or application for any noncitizen for immigration-related benefits.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO

How this job compares in Atlanta, GA

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Atlanta, GA currently run a median of $28/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$31/hr across 21 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Atlanta, GA

We're tracking 57 other active welding openings in Atlanta, GA right now, from 42 different employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 267 other active welding openings from 144 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Atlanta, or widen the search to Georgia.

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 (9). 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. Atlanta is among them.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG and TIG work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

Similar openings near Atlanta, GA

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Technician, AM, Bakery Plant - Atlanta figures were last recalculated when this page was built.