Packager
Location
Linden, NJ
Wage
$30.23/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 21, 2026
Location
Linden, NJ
Wage
$30.23/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 21, 2026
Eastman is a global specialty materials company founded in 1920, producing a wide range of products used daily. The Packager role involves operating and maintaining production equipment safely and efficiently, performing preventive maintenance, and ensuring quality assurance in the packaging process.
At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $33/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey, whose middle half runs $27–$40/hr across 153 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 41% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.
Linden, NJ currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 215 other active welding openings from 134 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Linden, or widen the search to New Jersey.
The most active employers in New Jersey at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (13), MillenniumSoft Inc (11), and Gpac (9). 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 Newark at $38/hr, Camden at $37/hr, and Cinnaminson at $30/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. Packager figures were last recalculated when this page was built.