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Overview

The Manufacturing Technician A position requires advanced technical knowledge to troubleshoot and repair production equipment while ensuring quality products are produced. The role involves collaboration with engineers and vendors, as well as training and supervising employees.

Responsibilities

  • Instructs, monitors and communicates requirements for safety, quality and production.
  • Performs various duties relating to automation and robotics, machine shop fabrication.
  • Works closely with engineers and outside vendors to resolve complex process or equipment issues in a cost effective and timely manner.
  • Maintains statistical process charting, interpretation, and trend-analysis to perform process or equipment adjustments.
  • Trains employees; assigns and directs work; provides feedback to supervisor regarding employee work performance; addresses complaints and resolves problems.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • High School diploma or equivalent education and experience.
  • 3 years of technical experience using mechanical, electrical and hydraulic skills.
  • Advanced troubleshooting skills using mechanical, electrical, hydraulic knowledge.
  • Skill and a basic knowledge of tooling practices and applications.
  • Demonstrated leadership skills.
  • Good teamwork, interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Computer skills.
  • Fluent in English and primary language used in area of responsibility and/or location.

Additional Information

  • May be required to lift or carry products, parts, and/or other materials of various sizes and weights.
  • Ability to stand and/or walk constantly over a full work shift (8-12 hours).
  • Ability to perform occasional to frequent pushing, pulling, bending, kneeling, twisting, crawling and/or reaching over a full work shift (8-12 hours).
  • Ability to use power/vibrating tools over a full work shift (8-12 hours).
  • Ability to operate motorized vehicles over a full work shift (8-12 hours).
  • Exposure to noise levels for which hearing protection is required to be worn over a full work shift (8-12 hours).
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How this job compares in Stone Mountain, GA

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Georgia currently run a median of $28/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$36/hr across 125 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 Stone Mountain, GA

Stone Mountain, GA currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. 7 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 371 other active welding openings from 218 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Stone Mountain, or widen the search to Georgia.

Briggs & Stratton currently has 1 other opening 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 (12), Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (11), 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 Marietta at $39/hr, Forest Park at $34/hr, and Kennesaw at $32/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. Manufacturing Technician A figures were last recalculated when this page was built.