Technician Maintenance

Location

South Plainfield, NJ

Wage

$25 – $35/hr

Employment Type

Full-time

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Posted on October 13, 2026

Job Description

Overview

The Maintenance Technician position is a hands-on role providing technical expertise in the maintenance, repair, and preventive maintenance of facility equipment in a validated, cGMP environment. The role includes responsibilities for maintaining shop tools, inventory, and the department’s CMMS while adhering to Lean and 5S principles.

Responsibilities

  • Perform predictive and preventative maintenance on equipment, machinery, and facility buildings.
  • Conduct daily, weekly, quarterly, and semi-annual safety/maintenance inspections.
  • Respond to maintenance calls on a 24/7 basis and maintain a spare parts program.
  • Install, repair, and service ventilation, heat, and air conditioning systems.
  • Comply with environmental requirements for waste management.
  • Install and repair facility lighting and wiring fixtures.
  • Maintain and analyze a production downtime record.
  • Adhere to Lock-out, Tag out procedures for employee safety.
  • Analyze new ways to improve operations and respond to audit findings.
  • Attend workshops and training to maintain mechanical and technical skills.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED.
  • Minimum of 2 years of related experience in maintenance systems.
  • Ability to effectively communicate in English; Spanish preferred in PR.
  • Computer literacy including word processing and spreadsheet capabilities.
  • Effective interpersonal skills and ability to work independently.
  • Above average organizing, analyzing, and Level 3 math skills.
  • Working knowledge of pneumatics, hydraulics, mechanics, or electrical applications.
  • Ability to read blueprints and schematics.
  • Normal hearing range sufficient to hear alarms and signals.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Employee Schedule: Wednesday Noon - 6pm, Thursday thru Saturday - 6am - 6pm.
  • Position may require after hours emergency response activities.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO

How this job compares in South Plainfield, NJ

Pay in context

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 99 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 33% 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.

The local market in South Plainfield, NJ

South Plainfield, NJ currently has 7 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 171 other active welding openings from 127 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in South Plainfield, or widen the search to New Jersey.

The most active employers in New Jersey at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are gpac (8), Valcor Engineering Corporation (6), and Xylem (3). 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 South Plainfield at $38/hr and Cherry Hill at $26/hr. South Plainfield is among them.

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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. Technician Maintenance figures were last recalculated when this page was built.