RME Operator
Location
Staten Island, NY
Wage
$21.27 – $25.02/hr
Posted on September 3, 2026
Location
Staten Island, NY
Wage
$21.27 – $25.02/hr
Posted on September 3, 2026
C&W Services is looking for an RME Operator to support the RME team in maintaining and repairing conveyance systems and material handling equipment. This entry-level position requires no prior electrical or mechanical experience and focuses on learning basic maintenance tasks while adhering to safety protocols.
At roughly $23/hr, this posting comes in about 23% below the $30/hr median for welding jobs across New York, where the middle half runs $26–$41/hr across 137 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 9% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.
Staten Island, NY currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 1 employer. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across New York as a whole we're tracking 202 other active welding openings from 135 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Staten Island, or widen the search to New York.
The most active employers in New York at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in New York, NY (17), Randstad USA (6), and GE Aerospace (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 York, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are New York at $53/hr, Queens at $39/hr, and Brooklyn at $33/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. RME Operator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.