Equipment Technician - Manufacturing
Location
Beverly, KY
Wage
$20.5 – $35/hr
Posted on August 3, 2026
Location
Beverly, KY
Wage
$20.5 – $35/hr
Posted on August 3, 2026
Microchip Technology Inc. is seeking an experienced Manufacturing Technician to join their team in the Cesium Beam Tube (CBT) department. This role involves hand building sub-assemblies in a cleanroom environment and offers comprehensive on-the-job training.
At roughly $28/hr, this posting sits about 11% above the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Kentucky — toward the top of a $23–$31/hr middle band drawn from 40 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 65% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Beverly, KY, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Kentucky as a whole we're tracking 53 other active welding openings from 41 employers. Browse welding jobs across Kentucky.
The most active employers in Kentucky at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are BAE Systems (4), SU Solutions (3), and Snelling (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Equipment Technician - Manufacturing figures were last recalculated when this page was built.