Quality Technician - Wayne NJ
Location
Wayne, NJ
Wage
$62,530 – $100,048/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 4, 2026
Location
Wayne, NJ
Wage
$62,530 – $100,048/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 4, 2026
BAE Systems Electronic Systems is seeking a Quality Technician for the First Shift Inspection Team at their Wayne, New Jersey facility. The role involves mechanical and visual inspection of electronic systems to ensure conformity to specifications.
At roughly $39/hr, this posting sits about 12% above the $35/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey — toward the top of a $30–$40/hr middle band drawn from 143 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 63% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
Wayne, NJ currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 216 other active welding openings from 130 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 (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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Quality Technician - Wayne NJ figures were last recalculated when this page was built.