Job Description

Overview

Join a fast-paced manufacturing environment where you'll help keep production running by maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing industrial equipment and facility systems. This role offers hands-on technical work, opportunities to expand your mechanical skills, and the chance to make a direct impact on equipment reliability and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on manufacturing equipment and facility systems.
  • Troubleshoot and repair mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and basic electrical issues.
  • Complete scheduled PMs and accurately document maintenance activities in a maintenance management system.
  • Support welding, fabrication, pipe fitting, and machine shop projects as needed.
  • Repair and maintain HVAC, plumbing, lighting, heating systems, pumps, forklifts, and other facility equipment.
  • Identify potential equipment failures and recommend corrective actions to minimize downtime.
  • Safely operate maintenance tools, hand tools, welders, grinders, lifts, and other shop equipment.
  • Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work environment while following all safety and quality procedures.
  • Assist with equipment installations, facility improvements, and other maintenance projects as assigned.

Requirements

  • Trade school education or equivalent industrial maintenance experience preferred.
  • 3–5 years of industrial maintenance or manufacturing maintenance experience.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills involving mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and basic electrical systems.
  • Ability to read mechanical drawings, blueprints, and schematics.
  • Experience with welding and metal fabrication; certification is a plus.
  • Familiarity with forklifts, scissor lifts, machine shop equipment, and power tools.
  • Basic computer skills with Microsoft Office and willingness to learn maintenance software.
  • Comfortable working at heights, in confined spaces, and lifting up to 50 lbs.
  • Ability to work overtime, weekends, and flexible hours when needed.

Benefits

  • Stable full-time opportunity with consistent hours.
  • Hands-on work with a wide variety of industrial equipment and facility systems.
  • Opportunity to expand technical maintenance, welding, and troubleshooting skills.
  • Collaborative maintenance team supporting continuous improvement and operational reliability.
  • Long-term career growth within a manufacturing environment.

Benefits

Stable full-time opportunity with consistent hours.
Hands-on work with a wide variety of industrial equipment and facility systems.
Opportunity to expand technical maintenance, welding, and troubleshooting skills.
Collaborative maintenance team supporting continuous improvement and operational reliability.
Long-term career growth within a manufacturing environment.

How this job compares in Rahway, 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 Rahway, NJ

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