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Overview

The Equipment Installation & Repair Technician at Pratt Industries is responsible for installing and maintaining equipment across various locations, ensuring proper service and management of installations. The role requires a high degree of safety awareness and the ability to travel as needed.

Responsibilities

  • Welding
  • Develop critical task list and timelines
  • Ensure all tasks are completed as scheduled
  • Manage project activities
  • Communicate key repairs
  • Equipment Oversight
  • Tracking installations and placement internal / external
  • Maintain Equipment specifications
  • Preventative / Predictive Maintenance
  • Develop and manage maintenance program for all equipment internal / external
  • Track repair history to end of useful life
  • Provide Key metrics
  • Manage equipment rebuilds with vendors
  • Travel to all locations and set-up, tear-down or repair on-site equipment
  • Follow all company policies per Employee Handbook & Code of Conduct
  • Follow all company safety guidelines
  • Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Requirements

  • 10 years’ experience in baler repair and installation
  • 10 years’ experience as a mechanic of both heavy equipment and recycling equipment
  • CDL license
  • High School diploma
  • Must be able and available to travel with short notice and work at a varying schedule
  • Professional attitude and conduct
  • Multi-task, interpersonal communication, problem solving, and time management skills
  • High degree of safety awareness and safety discipline
  • Display a professional and courteous attitude to co-workers, supervisors and the general public at all times
  • Willing to travel and work away from home when required
  • Be willing to work nights and weekends when necessary
  • Strictly adhere to safety requirements and the policies and procedures as outlined in the Employee Handbook
  • Willingness to work in a team environment and assist co-workers or supervisors with other duties as required
  • Wear personal protective equipment (PPE) in designated operations and production areas as stated by PRATT Safety and OSHA
  • Be at least age 18 years of age due to nature of working environment
  • Flexibility to the needs of the business

Benefits

  • PTO
  • Health Insurance
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Random and suspicion drug tests are performed
  • Must successfully complete a drug screen and background check to be hired
  • Take Caedus placement test for skill assessment

Benefits

PTO
Health Insurance
401k
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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. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 268 other active welding openings from 145 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.

Pratt Industries currently has 4 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 (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.

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. Equipment Installation & Repair Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.