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Job Description

Overview

As a Commercial Maintenance Technician, you’ll keep commercial buildings and facilities equipment safe, functional, and ready for daily use. You’ll handle hands-on maintenance across electrical, mechanical, plumbing, HVAC, and building interior systems.

Responsibilities

  • Inspect, maintain, and repair facilities equipment, electrical equipment, HVAC systems, and plumbing systems.
  • Use hand tools, an ohmmeter, and schematics to diagnose issues and complete electrical work safely.
  • Perform building interior maintenance, including carpentry, maintenance painting, and residential painting as needed.
  • Apply mechanical knowledge and experience with maintenance, repair, and operations tasks.
  • Respond to maintenance requests, explain work clearly, and coordinate tasks with occupants and teammates.

Requirements

  • Experience in facilities maintenance, maintenance, electrical work, electrical equipment repair, and HVAC system repair is valuable.
  • Knowledge of plumbing system maintenance and repair, mechanical systems, hand tools, and reading schematics is preferred.
  • Familiarity with PLCs, welding, carpentry, maintenance painting, or residential painting is a plus.
  • Bring customer service skills, clear English communication, and the ability to work independently and support team leadership.

Additional Information

  • Work Location: In person

Compensation

  • Pay: $18.00 - $26.33 per hour
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How this job compares in Nashville, TN

Pay in context

At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 15% below the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Tennessee, where the middle half runs $21–$30/hr across 32 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 34% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Nashville, TN

Nashville, TN currently has 7 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Tennessee as a whole we're tracking 85 other active welding openings from 61 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Nashville, or widen the search to Tennessee.

The most active employers in Tennessee at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Mueller Water Products (5), Welding Shop in Nashville, TN (4), and JLG Industries (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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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. Commercial Maintenance Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.