Plant Maintenance Technician Jobs in Georgia
Plant Maintenance Technician jobs in Georgia are among the most active in the Southeast, concentrated in manufacturing, food and beverage processing, and chemical production facilities that anchor the state's industrial economy. Atlanta, Savannah, and Augusta are the primary hiring centers, with major employers like Procter and Gamble, Gulfstream Aerospace, and Shaw Industries maintaining large maintenance teams at their Georgia facilities. Electrical systems troubleshooting, PLC programming, and predictive maintenance are the specialties most in demand across the state. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Maintenance Coordinator
Chattahoochee Energy Facility | Franklin, Georgia
Oglethorpe Power is seeking an experienced Maintenance Coordinator to support the Chattahoochee Energy Facility, a combined-cycle generating plant in Franklin, Georgia.
This is an opportunity for a power-generation maintenance professional who enjoys bringing order to complex work: translating maintenance needs into executable plans, aligning people and resources, and helping a facility operate safely, reliably, and efficiently. You will be central to planning and coordinating maintenance for two combustion turbine generators, two heat recovery steam generators, one steam turbine generator, and their associated auxiliary equipment.
What You'll Do
As Maintenance Coordinator, you will own the planning and coordination needed to move maintenance work from request to safe, well-prepared execution and completion. Your work will include:
Planning preventive, predictive, corrective, and special-project maintenance activities.
Conducting field walkdowns to understand work scope, clarify needs with requestors, and identify safety hazards or potential execution issues.
Developing work plans, including labor estimates, craft requirements, materials, tools, rental equipment, contractor support, and expected duration.
Maintaining maintenance backlogs and developing weekly and four-week projected schedules that align work with available plant resources.
Ensuring labor, materials, tools, equipment, and contractor resources are ready before work is scheduled.
Coordinating closely with Plant Operations and Maintenance leadership, craft personnel, outage coordinators, contractors, and other support teams to resolve planning and scheduling needs.
Supporting outage planning, including outage personnel schedules and schedule-change tracking.
Managing work orders through completion in Maximo and ensuring repair history, downtime, labor, materials, costs, and other required details are accurately documented.
Reviewing maintenance KPIs and performance data to identify ways to improve planning, scheduling, work execution, and plant performance.
Administering the facility's Conduct of Maintenance Program, facilitating post-work critiques, and turning lessons learned into better future maintenance practices.
Supporting budget and scope control, self-assessments, risk assessments, action-item tracking, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
Helping ensure compliance with OPC safety policies and procedures, mandatory electric reliability standards, and applicable FERC, EPA, EPD, OSHA, DOT, and other regulatory requirements.
What You'll Bring
Eight years of outage maintenance and management experience in an operating commercial electric power-generating plant is preferred.
Experience using a computerized maintenance management system; Maximo experience is strongly preferred.
A bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, engineering technology, or a related technical field is preferred.
We also welcome candidates whose directly related experience provides equivalent preparation for the role, including:
A two-year technical degree plus ten years of directly related maintenance and management experience in an electric power plant environment; or
Twelve years of directly related maintenance and management experience in an electric power plant environment.
Relevant technical education, industrial training, certifications, military training, and related industrial or military leadership experience will be considered when evaluating equivalent experience.
Work Environment
This is a plant-based role requiring regular field presence in an active power-generation environment. The successful candidate must be able to safely access work areas that may include stairs, scaffolding, heights, confined spaces, areas near or over water, and locations near high-voltage equipment.
The role requires the ability to wear required personal protective equipment, including respiratory protection, and may involve lifting or carrying up to 75 pounds of tools, equipment, or materials.
Because the facility operates around the clock, this position may require work outside normal business hours, including support during forced outages, planned maintenance outages, and plant meetings. The Maintenance Coordinator is also part of a 24-hour call response for events affecting generation operations, rating, or reliability. Travel is approximately 30%.
Why Oglethorpe Power
At Oglethorpe Power, the work you do helps provide reliable, affordable energy for millions of Georgians. You'll join a team that values safety, technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement-while making a direct impact on the reliability of a critical generation asset.
Maintenance Coordinator
Chattahoochee Energy Facility | Franklin, Georgia
Oglethorpe Power is seeking an experienced Maintenance Coordinator to support the Chattahoochee Energy Facility, a combined-cycle generating plant in Franklin, Georgia.
This is an opportunity for a power-generation maintenance professional who enjoys bringing order to complex work: translating maintenance needs into executable plans, aligning people and resources, and helping a facility operate safely, reliably, and efficiently. You will be central to planning and coordinating maintenance for two combustion turbine generators, two heat recovery steam generators, one steam turbine generator, and their associated auxiliary equipment.
What You'll Do
As Maintenance Coordinator, you will own the planning and coordination needed to move maintenance work from request to safe, well-prepared execution and completion. Your work will include:
Planning preventive, predictive, corrective, and special-project maintenance activities.
Conducting field walkdowns to understand work scope, clarify needs with requestors, and identify safety hazards or potential execution issues.
Developing work plans, including labor estimates, craft requirements, materials, tools, rental equipment, contractor support, and expected duration.
Maintaining maintenance backlogs and developing weekly and four-week projected schedules that align work with available plant resources.
Ensuring labor, materials, tools, equipment, and contractor resources are ready before work is scheduled.
Coordinating closely with Plant Operations and Maintenance leadership, craft personnel, outage coordinators, contractors, and other support teams to resolve planning and scheduling needs.
Supporting outage planning, including outage personnel schedules and schedule-change tracking.
Managing work orders through completion in Maximo and ensuring repair history, downtime, labor, materials, costs, and other required details are accurately documented.
Reviewing maintenance KPIs and performance data to identify ways to improve planning, scheduling, work execution, and plant performance.
Administering the facility's Conduct of Maintenance Program, facilitating post-work critiques, and turning lessons learned into better future maintenance practices.
Supporting budget and scope control, self-assessments, risk assessments, action-item tracking, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
Helping ensure compliance with OPC safety policies and procedures, mandatory electric reliability standards, and applicable FERC, EPA, EPD, OSHA, DOT, and other regulatory requirements.
What You'll Bring
Eight years of outage maintenance and management experience in an operating commercial electric power-generating plant is preferred.
Experience using a computerized maintenance management system; Maximo experience is strongly preferred.
A bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, engineering technology, or a related technical field is preferred.
We also welcome candidates whose directly related experience provides equivalent preparation for the role, including:
A two-year technical degree plus ten years of directly related maintenance and management experience in an electric power plant environment; or
Twelve years of directly related maintenance and management experience in an electric power plant environment.
Relevant technical education, industrial training, certifications, military training, and related industrial or military leadership experience will be considered when evaluating equivalent experience.
Work Environment
This is a plant-based role requiring regular field presence in an active power-generation environment. The successful candidate must be able to safely access work areas that may include stairs, scaffolding, heights, confined spaces, areas near or over water, and locations near high-voltage equipment.
The role requires the ability to wear required personal protective equipment, including respiratory protection, and may involve lifting or carrying up to 75 pounds of tools, equipment, or materials.
Because the facility operates around the clock, this position may require work outside normal business hours, including support during forced outages, planned maintenance outages, and plant meetings. The Maintenance Coordinator is also part of a 24-hour call response for events affecting generation operations, rating, or reliability. Travel is approximately 30%.
Why Oglethorpe Power
At Oglethorpe Power, the work you do helps provide reliable, affordable energy for millions of Georgians. You'll join a team that values safety, technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement-while making a direct impact on the reliability of a critical generation asset.
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What Georgia Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in plant maintenance technician jobs across Georgia.
- High school diploma or GED with two or more years of industrial maintenance experience
- Proven ability to troubleshoot electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems
- Experience reading technical schematics, blueprints, and equipment manuals
- Familiarity with PLC controls and basic programming or diagnostics
- Ability to perform preventive maintenance and document work orders in a CMMS
- Willingness to work rotating shifts including nights, weekends, and on-call coverage
Plant Maintenance Technician Jobs in Georgia: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a plant maintenance technician in Georgia?
Most Georgia employers require a high school diploma or GED plus hands-on industrial maintenance experience, though an associate degree in industrial technology or mechatronics from a Georgia Technical College System school strengthens your application. Georgia does not require a state-issued license specifically for plant maintenance technicians, but holding a journeyman electrician credential through the Georgia State Licensing Board for Residential and General Contractors or a refrigeration certification is a meaningful advantage for roles involving electrical or HVAC-intensive equipment.
Which companies hire plant maintenance technicians in Georgia?
Companies currently hiring plant maintenance technicians in Georgia include Piedmont Healthcare, Vestis, and SRM Concrete, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Georgia's dense concentration of food processing, aerospace, and consumer goods manufacturers means maintenance roles appear consistently across the state, not just in Atlanta.
Which Georgia cities have the most plant maintenance technician jobs?
Augusta, Atlanta, and Thomson have the most plant maintenance technician openings in Georgia. Atlanta leads because of its sheer concentration of manufacturing and distribution facilities, while Savannah's growth is driven by the Port of Savannah and the aerospace and logistics employers that have expanded nearby, and Augusta draws demand from chemical, medical device, and food production plants operating in the Central Savannah River area.
Are there remote plant maintenance technician jobs in Georgia?
Yes, but they're rare. Plant maintenance technicians work directly with physical equipment on production floors, so the large majority of roles require on-site presence. About 0% of plant maintenance technician openings tied to Georgia are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, and those tend to be technical training, documentation, or vendor coordination functions attached to a maintenance team rather than hands-on wrench-turning positions.
How can I get hired as a plant maintenance technician in Georgia with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is completing a technical diploma or certificate in industrial maintenance, mechatronics, or electrical systems through a Georgia Technical College System campus such as Chattahoochee Technical College or Georgia Northwestern Technical College, then applying for a maintenance helper or general trades apprentice opening at a large manufacturer. Employers like Procter and Gamble and Shaw Industries run structured apprenticeship and on-the-job training programs for candidates without a full maintenance background. Lateral moves from adjacent roles such as production operator, equipment operator, or facilities helper are common stepping stones, and holding a forklift certification or OSHA-10 card gives entry-level applicants an immediate edge.
Where can I find and apply to plant maintenance technician jobs in Georgia?
You can find and apply to plant maintenance technician jobs in Georgia on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings tied to the state. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience level, location, and schedule, then apply directly to the ones that fit.
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