Maintenance Technician
Location
Pedricktown, NJ
Wage
$30 – $35/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 15, 2026
Location
Pedricktown, NJ
Wage
$30 – $35/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 15, 2026
A leading food manufacturer is seeking experienced Maintenance Technicians for 1st and 2nd shifts, offering excellent pay and benefits. The company specializes in fresh and frozen premium food products and values its employees as the lifeblood of the organization.
At roughly $33/hr, this posting comes in about 10% below the $36/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey, where the middle half runs $29–$40/hr across 131 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 38% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Pedricktown, 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 118 employers. Browse welding jobs across New Jersey.
Jobot currently has 2 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 (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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.