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Overview

The Dock and Door Service Tech position involves troubleshooting, diagnosing, servicing, repairing, and installing dock and door equipment. The role requires performing planned maintenance, welding, and maintaining a service van and its inventory.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoot, diagnose, service, repair and install dock and door equipment.
  • Perform all assigned planned maintenance on customer dock and door equipment.
  • Welding.
  • Maintain a service van and its inventory.
  • Process paperwork after completion of each job.

Requirements

  • Less than 2 years related experience.
  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • Valid driver's license with a good driving record.
  • Ability to safely operate lift trucks.
  • Technical school graduate preferred.
  • Mechanical and electrical aptitude.
  • Welding experience.
  • Good written and verbal communication and customer care skills.
  • Read and understand hydraulic and electrical schematics.
  • Familiar with tools and equipment such as common hand tools.

Additional Information

  • Location: Oakland, NJ, US, 07436
  • Competitive wages with an anticipated starting pay range of $27 to $39, commensurate with skills and related experience.
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How this job compares in Oakland, NJ

Pay in context

At roughly $33/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $36/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey, whose middle half runs $29–$40/hr across 131 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 42% 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 Oakland, NJ

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Oakland, 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 198 other active welding openings from 117 employers. Browse welding jobs across New Jersey.

The most active employers in New Jersey at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are gpac (15), Rhoads Industries (12), 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 $41/hr, Northvale at $40/hr, and Newark at $35/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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