Optical/Laser Cleaner and Aligning Technician (2nd or 3rd Shift)
Location
Pine Brook, NJ
Wage
$25 – $38/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 28, 2026
Location
Pine Brook, NJ
Wage
$25 – $38/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 28, 2026
Kearfott Corporation, founded in 1918, is a global leader in the design and manufacture of precision motion control products and inertial navigation components for the aerospace and defense industries. They are seeking an Optical/Laser Cleaner and Aligning Technician to clean and align optical products under moderate supervision.
At roughly $32/hr, this posting comes in about 10% below the $35/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey, where the middle half runs $29–$40/hr across 154 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 37% 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.
Pine Brook, NJ is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 214 other active welding openings from 138 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across 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. 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. Optical/Laser Cleaner and Aligning Technician (2nd or 3rd Shift) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.