HFC Atlanta - Industrial Electrician
Hormel Foods · Atlanta, GA
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Reliability
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 2+ years
- Industry
- Food & beverage
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A technician-level reliability role at Hormel Foods (food & beverage) in Atlanta, GA. Assembles, dismantles and/or moves any type of equipment using proper tools, rigging and gear.
- They ask for
- 2+ years · degree required
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Maintenance Technician roles in the US: typical posted base $62k–$88k.
Median of the low and high ends of 74 live postings that list pay, out of 2669 maintenance technician openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Georgia plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 57 other live reliability postings in Georgia.
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (2+ vs 5+)
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- PLC 52%
- Welding 36%
- ✓ Team leadership 33%
- Root cause 33%
- EHS / safety 21%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- How does off-shift and weekend coverage work?
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This plant: Hormel Foods in Atlanta
1 other open role at this site.
- HFC Atlanta Industrial Maintenance Mechanic · Reliability · Technician
Full description from Hormel FoodsAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Qualifications
Must be able to understand verbal and written instructions • Must possess strong communication and organizational skills • Must have the ability to multi-task • Must have strong internal and external customer service skills • Must work well in team environment • Must have the ability to do basic mathematical calculations • Candidates with a appropriate degree must have a minimum of 2 years of industrial maintenance experience. • Must be certifiable within 90-day probationary period. • Must be able to complete or oversee project work or craft work when required. • Must learn new controls technologies and systems as required through out plant.
Education/Experience
- ✓Associate or Vocational Degree (or Certificate/Diploma) or High School Diploma or GED and five (5) years of industrial electrical manufacturing experience
- ✓Experience with 480VAC, 3 phase motor circuits
- ✓Experience with 120VAC and 12-24DC control circuits
- ✓Experience reading electrical schematics, P&ID (Process & Instrumentation Diagrams), and mechanical drawings
- ✓Experience installing industrial electrical equipment
Preferred Qualifications
- ✓Experience installing, examining, replacing, and/or repairing Variable Frequency Drives (VFD) and AC/DC motor controllers
- ✓Experience with installing conduit
- ✓Willing and able to provide personal hand tools to include but not limited to: wire cutters, wrenches, screwdrivers, sockets, pliers, etc.
Various shifts available
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Hormel Foods has an opening for an experienced Industrial Maintenance Electrician. Successful candidates will work in our food processing production facility located in Tucker, GA, and enjoy competitive wages along with a comprehensive benefits package.
Job Description
- •Performs all functions of the job in a safe manner and promptly reports any unsafe behaviors to the shift supervisor.
- •Reads and works from basic blueprints and drawings to perform maintenance and service, install and/or modify equipment.
- •Reads wiring diagrams and sketches.
- •Possesses sufficient knowledge for correct analysis of mechanical/electrical difficulty and makes necessary corrections.
- •Assembles, dismantles and/or moves any type of equipment using proper tools, rigging and gear.
- •Installs and repairs electrical conduit, connections and splices cable.
- •Uses all types of testing equipment normally used in an industrial setting.
- •Diagnoses both electrical and mechanical problems and develops fastest, low cost options to fix.
- •Is willing and able to instruct, train and direct the efforts of others.
- •Works alone or in cooperation with others and other department to do any work on any plant equipment in the most time and cost efficient manner. 1 Handles all maintenance requests as directed.
- •Performs other related duties consistent with the nature of the job as directed by the supervisor.
- •Willing and able to work any shift, variable start times, overtime,weekends, and holidaysas scheduled
- •Willing and able to work on machinery at various heights
- •Willing and able to work variable shift start.
Wages
- •$34.45/hour & yearly raise
- •OT is earned on a daily and weekly basis