Job Description

Overview

Our client is a global leader in packaging and bottling equipment solutions, supporting manufacturers across the food, beverage, and consumer goods industries. They are looking for a hands-on Field Service Engineer with strong mechanical or electromechanical experience who enjoys working directly on complex industrial equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Install, commission, troubleshoot, and service industrial packaging and bottling equipment at customer sites.
  • Perform hands-on mechanical repairs, equipment rebuilds, and component replacements.
  • Work with pumps, motors, gearboxes, hydraulics, pneumatics, and other mechanical systems.
  • Support equipment including fillers, blow molders, shrink wrappers, case packers, and related packaging machinery.
  • Read and interpret mechanical drawings, P&IDs, and pneumatic schematics.
  • Test equipment performance, identify mechanical issues, and ensure machinery meets operational and safety standards.
  • Work directly with customers to resolve technical issues and provide equipment training.
  • Travel extensively throughout the U.S. and occasionally internationally for installations and service projects.

Requirements

  • 2–3+ years of hands-on mechanical or electromechanical field service experience, or equivalent experience installing and commissioning industrial equipment.
  • Strong mechanical troubleshooting skills, including the ability to dismantle, repair, refurbish, and reassemble machinery.
  • Experience with packaging, bottling, filling, blow molding, case packing, shrink wrapping, or similar industrial equipment.
  • Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and mechanical schematics; P&ID and pneumatic schematic experience strongly preferred.
  • Experience with equipment installations, commissioning, or major mechanical rebuilds—not just routine preventive maintenance.
  • Stable work history and demonstrated hands-on technical experience.
  • Ability to travel up to 90%, including extended assignments of several weeks at customer sites.
  • Strong communication skills and professionalism in customer-facing environments.
  • Physically able to perform demanding hands-on mechanical work, including lifting and working around heavy industrial equipment.
  • Valid passport or willingness to obtain one for international travel.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Location: Nationwide (U.S.-based) – Domestic & International Travel
  • Schedule: Full-time | Up to 90% Travel | Direct Hire
  • Pay: $35–45/hr + Overtime (flexibility for highly qualified candidates)

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k

How this job compares in Norcross, GA

Pay in context

At roughly $40/hr, this posting sits about 38% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Georgia — toward the top of a $24–$39/hr middle band drawn from 103 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 78% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Norcross, GA

We're tracking 10 other active welding openings in Norcross, GA right now, from 7 different employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 330 other active welding openings from 191 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Norcross, or widen the search to Georgia.

The most active employers in Georgia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Lockheed Martin (11), Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (10), and Classic Collision (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 $42/hr, Forest Park at $39/hr, and Atlanta at $28/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. Field Service Engineer figures were last recalculated when this page was built.