Assembler Package Heater
Location
Blauvelt, NY
Wage
$27.14 – $29.82/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 9, 2026
Location
Blauvelt, NY
Wage
$27.14 – $29.82/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 9, 2026
Watts is a company dedicated to providing safe, clean water and protecting the planet's resources. The Assembler, Package Heater position involves assembling mechanical and electrical components into packaged heater units, ensuring quality and safety standards are met.
At roughly $28/hr, this posting comes in about 19% below the $35/hr median for welding jobs across New York, where the middle half runs $28–$42/hr across 109 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 28% 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.
Blauvelt, NY is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across New York as a whole we're tracking 165 other active welding openings from 107 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across New York.
Watts Water Technologies currently has 1 other opening live in New York, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in New York at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in New York, NY (16), Metropolitan Transportation Authority (8), and Veterans Health Administration (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 Bronx at $43/hr, New York at $40/hr, and Brooklyn at $40/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. Assembler Package Heater figures were last recalculated when this page was built.