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Overview

The Manufacturing Process Technician role involves supporting engineering activities in a fabrication area or processing laboratory by performing experiments, evaluating processes, and monitoring quality. This position requires hands-on assembly and process monitoring while ensuring accurate documentation and communication.

Responsibilities

  • Perform experiments and tests that support engineering activities.
  • Evaluate new processes and products and help isolate process problems.
  • Design and conduct simple experiments when needed.
  • Collect results and maintain accurate process and test logs.
  • Prepare clear oral and written reports of results.
  • Monitor wafer fabrication, process controls, materials, and supplies.
  • Support cable harness fabrication and routing activities.
  • Check processes and equipment for proper functioning and identify discrepancies.
  • Monitor and verify quality using established statistical process or other control procedures.
  • Advise operators on processes and procedures.
  • Provide engineers with relevant process information and test results.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • Experience performing mechanical and electrical assembly, including cable harness fabrication and routing, or process evaluations in a fabrication, manufacturing, or processing environment.
  • Experience with cable harness fabrication and routing.
  • Ability to monitor fabrication processes, process controls, materials, and supplies and identify discrepancies or process problems.
  • Ability to follow established quality-control, process, and safety procedures, including statistical process or other control procedures when applicable.
  • Ability to read and interpret mechanical and electrical blueprints.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in King of Prussia, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $39/hr, this posting sits about 39% above the $28/hr median for manufacturing welder jobs across Pennsylvania — toward the top of a $26–$42/hr middle band drawn from 10 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 70% 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 King of Prussia, PA

King of Prussia, PA currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. 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 King of Prussia, 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.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Manufacturing Process Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.