Maintenance Technician
Location
Leonia, NJ
Wage
$28 – $32/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 9, 2026
Location
Leonia, NJ
Wage
$28 – $32/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 9, 2026
The Maintenance Technician is responsible for the maintenance and repair of plant/buildings and grounds equipment, including troubleshooting and preventive maintenance. The role involves working closely with plant operations and engineering teams to ensure machinery operates efficiently.
At roughly $30/hr, this posting comes in about 12% below the $34/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey, where the middle half runs $30–$40/hr across 122 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 24% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Leonia, NJ, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 216 other active welding openings from 130 employers. 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 (12), gpac (10), and Gpac (10). 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 Northvale at $40/hr, Newark at $38/hr, and Somerdale 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. Maintenance Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.