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Job Description

Overview

WM is hiring for the position of Assistant Industrial Maintenance Technician, offering a stable and safe work environment with opportunities for career progression and financial security.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct preventive maintenance inspections and diagnose, repair, and rebuild major equipment and components.
  • Maintain the Daily Equipment Inspections backlog.
  • Adjust work procedures to meet production schedules and inform the Sr. Plant Maintenance Manager of additional work needs.
  • Inspect the quality of third-party repairs and rebuilds.
  • Recommend improvements to enhance production, equipment performance, and product quality.
  • Multitask and manage multiple priorities with efficiency.
  • Respond to emergency breakdown service calls.
  • Perform work with limited supervision while maintaining high standards of performance.
  • Maintain a clean, safe work area in compliance with Corporate/OSHA standards.

Requirements

  • 1 year of relevant work experience.
  • Be over 18 years of age.
  • Legally eligible to work in the United States.
  • Ability to perform physical requirements of the position with or without reasonable accommodations.
  • Successfully complete and pass pre-employment drug screen and physical.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Life Insurance
  • Short-Term Disability
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Monday – Friday (Occasional Saturdays)
  • 3rd Shift: 9:30pm to 6:00am

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Short-Term Disability
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Dallas, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $23/hr, this posting comes in about 42% below the $39/hr median for welding jobs in Dallas, TX, where the middle half runs $29–$40/hr across 48 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 6% 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 Dallas, TX

We're tracking 134 other active welding openings in Dallas, TX right now, from 81 different employers. 40 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,132 other active welding openings from 498 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Dallas, or widen the search to Texas.

WM currently has 1 other opening live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Zachry Group (33), Austin Industries (30), and Welding Shop in Austin, TX (21). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Arlington at $40/hr, Dallas at $39/hr, and Pasadena at $36/hr. Dallas is among them.

Similar openings near Dallas, TX

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Assistant Industrial Maintenance Technician - 2nd Shift & Benefits Day 1 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.