Electronic Assembler I 1st Shift - Wayne NJ
Location
Wayne, NJ
Wage
$32,273 – $54,837/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 28, 2026
Location
Wayne, NJ
Wage
$32,273 – $54,837/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 28, 2026
BAE Systems is seeking an Electronic Assembler I for their Wayne, NJ location. This position is available to military-affiliated job seekers and involves assembling electronic components and systems in a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility.
At roughly $21/hr, this posting comes in about 40% below the $35/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey, where the middle half runs $30–$40/hr across 154 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 3% 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.
Wayne, NJ currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 employers. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 214 other active welding openings from 138 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Wayne, 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), Gpac (10), and Department of the Navy - Agency Wide (7). 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 Camden at $41/hr, Northvale at $40/hr, and Wayne at $39/hr. Wayne is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Electronic Assembler I 1st Shift - Wayne NJ figures were last recalculated when this page was built.