Manufacturing Technician / Laser Welder
Location
Malvern, PA
Wage
$22 – $30/hr
Posted on September 8, 2026
Location
Malvern, PA
Wage
$22 – $30/hr
Posted on September 8, 2026
Applied Energy Systems is a rapidly growing manufacturing company specializing in gas delivery equipment and precision welding services for the medical device industry. The Laser Welder position involves operating laser welding equipment to assemble and join small instruments and components while adhering to ISO standards and safety protocols.
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At roughly $26/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $28/hr median for manufacturing welder jobs across Pennsylvania, whose middle half runs $26–$31/hr across 13 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 23% 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.
Malvern, PA currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 321 other active welding openings from 197 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Malvern, or widen the search to Pennsylvania.
Applied Energy Systems, Inc. currently has 3 other openings live in Pennsylvania, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
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 York 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. Manufacturing Technician / Laser Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.