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Job Description

Overview

We are looking for a skilled Metal Fabricator / Mechanic to help bring automation systems, theatrical sets, and museum exhibits to life through hands-on work that combines craftsmanship and creativity.

Responsibilities

  • Custom metal fabrication for automation systems, theatrical scenery, and museum exhibits.
  • Mechanical assemblies that make things move, including motors, bearings, shafts, linkages, and drive components.
  • Building one-of-a-kind parts, prototypes, and finished assemblies from blueprints and shop drawings.
  • Fitting, testing, troubleshooting, and refining projects as they come together.
  • Collaborating with designers, project leads, and fellow builders to solve practical challenges.

Requirements

  • Solid fabrication skills including layout, cutting, drilling, grinding, fitting, and finishing metal parts.
  • Experience setting up and operating a press brake, drill press, and manual mill.
  • Ability to produce strong, consistent welds and select appropriate welding approaches.
  • Capability to interpret drawings, dimensions, and tolerances.
  • Mechanical aptitude to understand how components fit and work together.
  • Attention to detail, ensuring measurements, fit, and finish are accurate.
  • Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
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How this job compares in Mantua, NJ

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welder fabricator jobs across New Jersey currently run a median of $40/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $38–$40/hr across 16 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Mantua, NJ

Mantua, NJ is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 198 other active welding openings from 117 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. 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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