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Job Description

Overview

Kings Engineering is seeking an experienced Boilermaker to provide high-quality maintenance services across various industries, including mining and manufacturing. The role focuses on achieving safety and production targets through effective maintenance and repair of equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Provide safe, quality, effective, and efficient fabrication services to customers.
  • Meet required targets with safety as the priority.
  • Provide maintenance and breakdown support on mobile and fixed plant.
  • Provide repair and fabrication maintenance support on underground and open-cut mobile equipment and fixed plant.
  • Demonstrate excellent housekeeping and equipment care.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated commitment to safe work practices relevant to the mining industry and a commitment to zero harm.
  • Fabrication trade qualifications and extensive experience within a heavy industrial or mining related environment, ideally 3 years plus post trade.
  • Ability to effectively communicate within and between work teams, demonstrating positive interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to read and interpret fabrication drawings and perform marking, cutting out using oxy and plasma cutter, grinding and gouging.
  • Ability to demonstrate previous experience welding in all positions, using flux cored wire – MIG and Stick experience.
  • High Risk WorkCover tickets required for role include forklift, work platform and working at heights.
  • Current valid NSW Driver's Licence.

Benefits

  • Competitive hourly rate from $44.91 up to $47.43
  • Roster choices (4 day week/9 day fortnight or 5 day week with monthly RDO)
  • Shift loading and attractive site rates
  • PPE Allowance
  • Laundered clothing
  • Discounted gym memberships
  • Upskill training opportunities
  • Supportive paid parental leave packages
  • Cash out of personal leave options

Benefits

Competitive hourly rate from $44.91 up to $47.43
Roster choices (4 day week/9 day fortnight or 5 day week with monthly RDO)
Shift loading and attractive site rates
PPE Allowance
Laundered clothing
Discounted gym memberships
Upskill training opportunities
Supportive paid parental leave packages
Cash out of personal leave options
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How this job compares in Rutherford, NJ

Pay in context

At roughly $46/hr, this posting sits about 32% above the $35/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey — toward the top of a $29–$40/hr middle band drawn from 78 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 92% 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 Rutherford, NJ

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

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG and Flux-Core work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. Flux-cored (FCAW) runs a hollow wire filled with flux, combining MIG-like deposition rates with the outdoor tolerance of stick. It is the workhorse on heavy structural steel and shipbuilding, where thick sections and long welds reward speed.

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