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Job Description

Overview

ZING is hiring a Maintenance Technician with strong industrial welding experience to support a busy manufacturing facility. This role focuses on welding to keep equipment running safely and minimize production downtime.

Responsibilities

  • Perform mechanical repairs and preventive maintenance
  • Complete welding and fabrication repairs on production equipment
  • Troubleshoot industrial machinery
  • Read blueprints, electrical schematics, and P&IDs
  • Support equipment installations and changeovers
  • Use SAP for maintenance documentation
  • Follow GMP and OSHA standards

Requirements

  • Strong industrial welding experience
  • Manufacturing maintenance experience
  • Background in welding, pipefitting, millwright, or electrical/instrumentation
  • Ability to troubleshoot mechanical equipment
  • SAP experience is a plus

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Location: East Hanover, NJ
  • Employment Type: Direct Hire

Benefits

Health Insurance
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How this job compares in East Hanover, NJ

Pay in context

At roughly $35/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $36/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey, whose middle half runs $29–$40/hr across 78 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 49% 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.

The local market in East Hanover, NJ

East Hanover, NJ currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 118 other active welding openings from 73 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in East Hanover, or widen the search to New Jersey.

Zing Recruiting currently has 1 other opening live in New Jersey, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in New Jersey at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (13), Gpac (9), 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 and Somerdale at $27/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Mechanic figures were last recalculated when this page was built.