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Overview

The Maintenance Mechanic at Perrigo NY is responsible for maintenance and troubleshooting the mechanical aspects of manufacturing and packaging equipment and facilities in compliance with standard operating procedures. This position requires completing work orders for a variety of skilled maintenance activities and performing maintenance, repair, and improvements on equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Complete daily Maintenance Tracker to inform Master Mechanic and/or supervisor when walk-throughs of designated areas are conducted.
  • Perform preventive maintenance to all packaging, compounding, and warehouse equipment.
  • Conduct repairs on packaging and compounding equipment as required.
  • Train production personnel in the proper use of equipment.
  • Perform equipment set-up, fine-tune, and troubleshoot using Root Cause Analysis methods.

Requirements

  • Five (5) years of hands-on mechanical experience with packaging equipment from a relevant manufacturing environment.
  • Successful completion of an accredited certification program in mechanical engineering, mechanical design, or troubleshooting.
  • Alternatively, three (3) years as a Perrigo Set Up Tech plus two years of completed education and active enrollment in a Mechanical/Industrial/Production/Electromechanical Engineering program.

Additional Information

  • This is a Union position.
  • The starting rate will be $29.00/hr.
  • Must be able to work rotational schedules and overtime as required.
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How this job compares in Bronx, NY

Pay in context

At roughly $29/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $32/hr median for welding jobs across New York, whose middle half runs $28–$41/hr across 104 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 37% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Bronx, NY

Bronx, NY currently has 7 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across New York as a whole we're tracking 152 other active welding openings from 106 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Bronx, or widen the search to New York.

Perrigo Company plc currently has 1 other opening live in New York, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in New York at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in New York, NY (22), GTI Fabrication (3), and Veterans Health Administration (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within New York, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are New York at $41/hr, Brooklyn at $33/hr, and Bronx at $30/hr. Bronx is among them.

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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. 1st Shift Maintenance Mechanic figures were last recalculated when this page was built.