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Overview

The Maintenance Technician I position involves operating various tools and machines essential for maintenance tasks. The role requires a basic working knowledge of equipment such as pumps, welders, and cranes.

Responsibilities

  • Operate all types of tools and machines essential to the job.
  • Utilize electrical meters, hand tools, power tools, torches, grinders, welders, forklifts, aerial lifts, overhead cranes, and computer equipment.

Requirements

  • Basic working knowledge of pumps, welders, punches, presses, shears, cranes, hoists, conveyors, and small pneumatic and electrical hand tools.

Benefits

Additional Information

  • Open Shifts: 1st shift, 2nd Shift, Weekend Shift.
  • Pay based on experience.
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How this job compares in Stoughton, WI

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting sits about 14% above the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Wisconsin — toward the top of a $22–$30/hr middle band drawn from 115 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 72% 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.

The local market in Stoughton, WI

Stoughton, WI is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Wisconsin as a whole we're tracking 171 other active welding openings from 117 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Wisconsin.

The most active employers in Wisconsin at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are QPS Employment Group (10), JARP Industries Inc (9), and SEEK Careers/Staffing (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 Wisconsin, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Oshkosh at $30/hr, Waukesha at $26/hr, and Hartford at $26/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Stoughton, WI

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 I figures were last recalculated when this page was built.