Traveling Skilled Craftsman
Location
Wayne, PA
Wage
$85,000 – $100,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 29, 2026
Location
Wayne, PA
Wage
$85,000 – $100,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 29, 2026
Brightview Senior Living is hiring a Traveling Skilled Craftsman to support the completion of interior finishes across multiple communities in South New Jersey and Pennsylvania. This role focuses on preparing apartments for move-in, maintaining high-quality finishes, and performing renovations as part of the capital improvement plan.
At roughly $44/hr, this posting sits about 59% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Pennsylvania — toward the top of a $25–$36/hr middle band drawn from 168 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 89% 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.
Wayne, PA is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 324 other active welding openings from 214 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Pennsylvania.
The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (13), Greene Tweed (9), and Department of the Navy - Agency Wide (8). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $36/hr and York at $27/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. Traveling Skilled Craftsman figures were last recalculated when this page was built.