Job Description

Overview

The Maintenance Mechanic Electrician position requires a skilled individual with primary expertise as an electrician and secondary skills in areas such as carpentry, pipe fitting, HVAC, welding, or machine repair. The role involves operating material handling and rigging equipment, performing various maintenance tasks, and ensuring compliance with safety and security protocols.

Responsibilities

  • Installs, repairs, maintains, and fabricates plant facilities and equipment.
  • Performs mechanical and electrical repairs and maintenance.
  • Conducts welding, pipefitting, HVAC, carpentry work, and painting.
  • Performs periodic inspections and tests and reports findings.
  • Receives general instructions from supervisors and notices of service required.
  • Works from blueprints, sketches, and oral instructions.
  • Uses hand tools, power tools, and other equipment necessary for assignments.
  • May direct other employees assigned to the job.

Requirements

  • Must have primary skill as an electrician and secondary skill in carpentry, pipe fitting, HVAC, welding, or machine repair.
  • Must be able to operate material handling and rigging equipment.
  • Apprenticeship papers, Journeymen’s card, or 5 years of equivalent work experience in the Electrical discipline is required.
  • A working knowledge of machine tools and welding is a plus.
  • Must supply all customary hand tools of the trade.
  • Must pass the company physical and drug test.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
  • Must regularly demonstrate the ability to lift nominal weight, climb ladders, utilize elevated working platforms, and bend while servicing equipment.
  • Strong verbal communication skills and ability to work in a team environment are necessary.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10).
  • Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO

How this job compares in Moorestown, NJ

Pay in context

At roughly $42/hr, this posting sits about 20% above the $35/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey — toward the top of a $29–$40/hr middle band drawn from 114 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 85% 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.

The local market in Moorestown, NJ

Moorestown, NJ is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 184 other active welding openings from 132 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across New Jersey.

Lockheed Martin currently has 1 other opening 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 (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. 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. Maintenance Mechanic Electrician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.