Welder
Location
Northvale, NJ
Wage
$35 – $45/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 11, 2026
Location
Northvale, NJ
Wage
$35 – $45/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 11, 2026
A growing manufacturing organization in Northvale, NJ is seeking an experienced Night Shift Welder to join its team. This skilled welding opportunity requires a high degree of precision, consistency, and attention to quality, particularly in sanitary welding within regulated manufacturing environments.
At roughly $40/hr, this posting sits about 11% above the $36/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey — toward the top of a $29–$40/hr middle band drawn from 131 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 64% 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.
Northvale, NJ currently has 9 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 198 other active welding openings from 118 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Northvale, or widen the search to New Jersey.
gpac currently has 14 other openings live in New Jersey, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in New Jersey at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are gpac (14), 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. Northvale is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.