Job Description

Overview

The Welder position involves joining, fabricating, and repairing metals using various welding techniques and devices. The role requires interpreting blueprints and ensuring compliance with safety protocols in a hazardous environment.

Responsibilities

  • Uses electricity and torches to produce heat and solder together components made from steel, titanium, copper, and other metals.
  • Welds small components.
  • Consults blueprints and sketches to execute jobs and tasks to specification.
  • Assesses equipment, structures, materials, and job specifications for appropriate welding positions and methods.
  • Monitors equipment for appropriate usage and temperature.
  • Maintains knowledge of universal standards and specifications to meet building codes and legal requirements.
  • Develops knowledge of methods used for welding various materials and components.
  • Operates specialized machinery for industrial welding.
  • Monitors work environment for hazards and maintains healthy ventilation levels.
  • Follows safety protocol, including wearing protective gear.
  • Works in the construction or manufacturing industries.

Requirements

  • Formal training through a vocational or technical school.
  • Relevant welder or welding fabricator certifications.
  • Preferred 1-3 years of related experience.
  • Ability to read blueprints.
  • Knowledge of chemistry and metallurgy.
  • Understanding of electricity.
  • Basic computer programming knowledge.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Manual dexterity.
  • Physical strength and stamina.
  • Spatial skills.
  • Technical skills.

Additional Information

  • Location: Little Ferry, NJ.
  • Full-time position.

How this job compares in Little Ferry, NJ

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across New Jersey currently run a median of $35/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $29–$40/hr across 79 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Little Ferry, NJ

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Little Ferry, 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 118 other active welding openings from 72 employers. Browse welding jobs across New Jersey.

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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