Job Description

Overview

The Maintenance Mechanic will perform maintenance, calibration, and repairs to manufacturing equipment, ensuring safety, productivity, and reliability. The successful candidate will demonstrate professionalism and confidentiality.

Responsibilities

  • Maintains production and quality by ensuring operation of manufacturing equipment and machinery.
  • Performs preventive maintenance and calibration work on manufacturing equipment with emphasis on packaging equipment and automated equipment lines.
  • Troubleshoots and resolves recurring equipment issues and improves reliability.
  • Locates sources of problems by observing mechanical devices in operation, listening for problems, reading equipment manuals, and using measuring and testing instruments.
  • Disassembles and repairs equipment and instruments.
  • Makes recommendations regarding safety and equipment operation procedures.
  • Maintains general facility equipment to ensure production plants are fully functional.
  • Performs minor repairs on facility as the need arises.

Requirements

  • Minimum of GED/high school diploma or an Associates degree in a relevant field.
  • Minimum of 5-7 years of experience working as a mechanic.
  • Experience with blending, granulation, compression and coating processes is desirable.
  • Solid ability to follow written and oral instructions with minimum supervision.
  • Ability to understand and follow standard operational procedures.
  • Good communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • Experience identifying problems and taking independent initiative to solve.
  • Ability to work from blueprints and drawings in constructing and repairing equipment.
  • Strong experience preparing procedures and cGMP documents.
  • Knowledgeable in reading and interpreting electrical schematics and PLC boards.
  • Must be able to accurately document work in both written and electronic form.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
PTO

How this job compares in Allendale, NJ

Pay in context

At roughly $37/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $35/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey, whose middle half runs $30–$40/hr across 143 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 56% 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 Allendale, NJ

Allendale, 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 216 other active welding openings from 130 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 (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 Camden at $51/hr, Northvale at $40/hr, and Newark at $38/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Allendale, NJ

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Mechanic figures were last recalculated when this page was built.