Maintenance Tech II
Location
Carteret, NJ
Wage
$33.25 – $48.25/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 18, 2026
Location
Carteret, NJ
Wage
$33.25 – $48.25/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 18, 2026
The Maintenance Tech II role involves performing preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, and repairs on equipment with a focus on production and quality. The position requires minimal supervision and includes mentoring junior technicians while ensuring all work is documented accurately.
At roughly $41/hr, this posting sits about 16% above the $35/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey — toward the top of a $29–$40/hr middle band drawn from 114 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 83% 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 Carteret, 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 184 other active welding openings from 131 employers. Browse welding jobs across New Jersey.
The most active employers in New Jersey at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are gpac (13), Phillips Tank & Structure (7), and Carvana (5). 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 Northvale at $40/hr, Newark at $38/hr, and South Plainfield at $30/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. Maintenance Tech II figures were last recalculated when this page was built.