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Overview

The Maintenance Technician B position involves using technical knowledge to troubleshoot and repair plant equipment, as well as maintaining the building and grounds. The role requires a variety of maintenance skills including mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic systems.

Responsibilities

  • Perform a wide variety of maintenance work to maintain structures, electrical systems, heating systems, plumbing, machine repair, and hydraulic systems.
  • Troubleshoot and repair equipment.
  • Perform preventative maintenance.
  • Conduct various machining or bench operations to alter and repair tools, dies, fixtures, jigs, and gauges.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • High School diploma or General Education Degree.
  • 1.5 years of technical experience using mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic skills.
  • Intermediate troubleshooting skills using mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic knowledge.
  • Good teamwork, interpersonal, and communication skills.
  • Basic computer skills.
  • Ability to perform sustained concentration and follow through on instructions.
  • Fluent in English and the primary language used in the area of responsibility.

Additional Information

  • May be required to lift or carry products, parts, and/or other materials of various sizes and weights.
  • Ability to perform occasional to frequent pushing, pulling, bending, kneeling, twisting, crawling, and/or reaching over a full work shift.
  • Ability to stand and/or walk constantly over a full work shift.
  • Ability to use power/vibrating tools over a full work shift.
  • Ability to operate motorized vehicles over a full work shift.
  • Exposure to noise levels for which hearing protection is required.
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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.

Similar openings near Stone Mountain, 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 B figures were last recalculated when this page was built.