Mechanic I, Water Systems - 2nd Shift
Location
Cherry Hill, NJ
Wage
$25 – $27/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 11, 2026
Location
Cherry Hill, NJ
Wage
$25 – $27/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 11, 2026
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. is seeking a Mechanic I for Water Systems on the 2nd shift, responsible for the operation and maintenance of high purity water systems and related equipment. The company is a developer and supplier of essential medicines, committed to making high-quality medicines accessible worldwide.
At roughly $26/hr, this posting comes in about 21% below the $33/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey, where the middle half runs $28–$38/hr across 106 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 17% 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.
Cherry Hill, NJ currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 183 other active welding openings from 127 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Cherry Hill, or widen the search to New Jersey.
The most active employers in New Jersey at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Valcor Engineering Corporation (7), Lockheed Martin (7), and DC Fabricators (4). 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 Moorestown at $42/hr and Newark at $33/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Mechanic I, Water Systems - 2nd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.