Fabricator 3
Location
Bridgeport, NJ
Wage
$21 – $30/hr
Posted on August 21, 2026
Location
Bridgeport, NJ
Wage
$21 – $30/hr
Posted on August 21, 2026
Xylem is a Fortune 500 global water solutions company dedicated to advancing sustainable impact and empowering the people who make water work every day. The Fabricator is responsible for fitting, joining, and fabricating portable pumping units and accessories using appropriate measurement and welding techniques, as well as reworking finished products.
At roughly $26/hr, this posting comes in about 36% below the $40/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across New Jersey, where the middle half runs $38–$40/hr across 16 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 0% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Bridgeport, NJ, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 124 other active welding openings from 74 employers. Browse welding jobs across New Jersey.
The most active employers in New Jersey at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (12), Gpac (10), and Department of the Navy - Agency Wide (7). 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 Jersey, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Camden at $41/hr, Northvale at $40/hr, and Newark at $35/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
This posting calls for MIG. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work.
See all welder fabricator openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Fabricator 3 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.