Manufacturing Technician
Location
Horsham, PA
Wage
$22 – $27/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on August 27, 2026
Location
Horsham, PA
Wage
$22 – $27/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on August 27, 2026
The Manufacturing Technician builds and integrates complex capital equipment, ensuring every system meets strict precision, quality, and reliability standards. This role involves executing detailed installations, diagnosing issues, and collaborating with engineering and cross-functional teams in a regulated manufacturing environment.
At roughly $25/hr, this posting comes in about 21% below the $31/hr median for manufacturing welder jobs across Pennsylvania, where the middle half runs $27–$42/hr across 9 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 0% 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.
Horsham, PA currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 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 300 other active welding openings from 197 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Horsham, 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 (10), 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 $30/hr and York at $27/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. Manufacturing Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.