Job Description

Overview

Winpak Control Group is seeking a Maintenance Technician to join the Maintenance Department based out of Norwood, NJ. This role is vital for ensuring the reliability, safety, and efficiency of plant equipment and facilities through troubleshooting, repairing, installing, and maintaining production and building systems.

Responsibilities

  • Diagnose, troubleshoot, and repair production equipment, including pneumatic, mechanical, and basic electrical systems.
  • Repair or replace machine components such as bearings, belts, pulleys, chains, hoses, filters, pumps, motors, switches, guards, and related parts.
  • Support tooling operations by assisting with the inspection, changeover, and maintenance of punches, dies, cavities, plugs, and air cylinders.
  • Perform preventive maintenance and routine servicing on chillers, mold cooling units, water systems, air compressors, hydraulic systems, and heating/cooling equipment.
  • Assist with machine changeovers and verify that gauges and related systems are operating correctly prior to production startup.
  • Carry out general building and facility maintenance, including filter replacement, roof patching, lock changes, minor carpentry, and other repair tasks.
  • Safely operate maintenance tools and equipment such as hand and power tools, saws, drill presses, forklifts, and electric hoists.
  • Perform basic welding, light fabrication, brazing, and soldering as needed to support maintenance and repair activities.
  • Maintain clean, organized work areas and proactively request replacement parts and supplies.
  • Adhere to all food safety, sanitation, and workplace safety standards, promptly reporting any food packaging or safety concerns to plant leadership.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent, and/or five to ten years of progressively responsible maintenance experience.
  • Ability to read and interpret blueprints, schematics, and technical diagrams.
  • Proficiency with electrical troubleshooting tools (multimeters, amp clamps, megohmmeters).
  • 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing or printing industry environment.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • This position is 100% onsite and may occasionally require flexibility to work extended or non-standard hours as operational needs require.
  • The role involves occasional exposure to fumes, airborne particles, vibration, and varying weather conditions.
  • Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs., perform frequent bending, sitting, walking and standing.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO

How this job compares in Norwood, NJ

Pay in context

At roughly $37/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $35/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 53% 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 Norwood, NJ

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Norwood, 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.

Similar openings near Norwood, NJ

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