Location
Martinsburg, WV
Wage
$21.62 – $35.72/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 30, 2026
The Maintenance Technician - Welding & Fabrication at AKER by MAAX / American Bath Group is responsible for machinery repair, structural support, and hot work in Martinsburg, West Virginia. This role requires a specialized technician to use welding and fabrication methods to restore or improve production machinery and plant equipment.
At roughly $29/hr, this posting comes in about 16% below the $34/hr median for welding jobs across West Virginia, where the middle half runs $26–$39/hr across 14 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 29% 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.
Martinsburg, WV is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across West Virginia as a whole we're tracking 25 other active welding openings from 18 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across West Virginia.
The most active employers in West Virginia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Jennmar (6), Phillips Tank and Structure - Steel Valley Fabricators (2), and SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 33 (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
This posting calls for MIG, TIG, Stick, and Flux-Core work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.
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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 Technician- Welding and Fabrication figures were last recalculated when this page was built.