Field Service Technician - NY Area
Location
Newark, NJ
Wage
$60,000 – $90,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 18, 2026
Location
Newark, NJ
Wage
$60,000 – $90,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 18, 2026
Ballard's Commercial team is seeking Field Service Technicians for the East Coast, specifically in New York, as well as Northern and Southern California. The role involves repairing, refurbishing, testing, and maintaining fuel cell modules and components, ensuring high quality and safety standards.
At roughly $36/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $35/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey, whose middle half runs $29–$40/hr across 114 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 55% 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.
We're tracking 15 other active welding openings in Newark, NJ right now, from 11 different employers. 7 of them were added in the last week. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 184 other active welding openings from 131 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Newark, or widen the search to New Jersey.
The most active employers in New Jersey at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are gpac (13), Phillips Tank & Structure (7), and Carvana (5). 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 Northvale at $40/hr, Newark at $38/hr, and South Plainfield at $30/hr. Newark 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. Field Service Technician - NY Area figures were last recalculated when this page was built.