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Overview

The Maintenance Technician position in Warminster, PA involves maintaining plant equipment and ensuring a clean, safe, and organized work environment. This is a W2 contract role for one year with a pay rate starting at $24 per hour.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain all plant equipment such as blending and packaging equipment, valves, pumps, conveyors, hot oil and steam systems.
  • Maintain equipment, materials, and work areas to ensure they are clean, safe, and organized.
  • Review, initiate and complete work orders, preventative maintenance, corrective work, and predictive maintenance assignments in a timely manner.
  • Provide advanced troubleshooting techniques to identify and resolve technical issues.
  • Assess projects and develop a bill of materials for parts and equipment.
  • Assist in maintaining an adequate inventory of replacement parts and shop materials to ensure the proper operation of production equipment.
  • Take action to identify and prevent problems related to HSSE, Quality and recommend actions towards continuous improvement solutions to improve processes.
  • Perform work in skilled areas of fabrication, assembly, welding, cutting and pipefitting.
  • Participate in Control of Work (CoW) risk assessments.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • Capable of operating motorized equipment such as Forklift and High Reach.
  • Familiar with Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) such as Ultimo or SAP.

Additional Information

  • Onsite plant environment.
  • Schedule: M-F 7:00 AM – 3:00 PM or 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
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How this job compares in Warminster, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 14% below the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Pennsylvania, where the middle half runs $24–$35/hr across 168 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 27% 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.

The local market in Warminster, PA

Warminster, PA currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 315 other active welding openings from 205 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Warminster, or widen the search to Pennsylvania.

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (15), Aerotek (11), and Hanwha Philly Shipyard (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 $32/hr, York at $27/hr, and Lancaster at $25/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Warminster, PA

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 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.