Manufacturing Technician
Location
Horsham, PA
Wage
$22 – $27/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on September 5, 2026
Location
Horsham, PA
Wage
$22 – $27/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on September 5, 2026
The Manufacturing Technician role offers a great opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the semiconductor industry by building and integrating complex capital equipment while ensuring systems meet precision, quality, and reliability requirements. The position involves collaboration with engineering and cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement.
At roughly $25/hr, this posting comes in about 12% below the $28/hr median for manufacturing welder jobs across Pennsylvania, where the middle half runs $26–$31/hr across 13 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 8% 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.
Horsham, PA currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 7 of them were added in the last week. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 321 other active welding openings from 196 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Horsham, or widen the search to Pennsylvania.
The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (12), Department of the Navy - Agency Wide (8), and Phillips Tank & Structure (8). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $32/hr, Braddock at $31/hr, and Malvern at $30/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. Manufacturing Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.