Sr Fabricator, Non-Pwr GSE
Location
Newark, NJ
Wage
$28.49 – $31.7/hr
Posted on October 30, 2026
Location
Newark, NJ
Wage
$28.49 – $31.7/hr
Posted on October 30, 2026
The Sr Fabricator, Non-Pwr GSE is responsible for disassembling, repairing, and assembling non-powered Ground Support Equipment (GSE) using welding and fabrication skills. The role involves performing diagnostic testing, troubleshooting equipment issues, and guiding other fabricators while ensuring safety and proper maintenance procedures.
At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $33/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey, whose middle half runs $28–$40/hr across 102 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 35% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.
Newark, NJ currently has 7 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 161 other active welding openings from 121 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Newark, 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 (6), UPS (4), and Depot Connect International (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 Newark at $35/hr and Cherry Hill at $31/hr. Newark is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Sr Fabricator, Non-Pwr GSE figures were last recalculated when this page was built.