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Job Description

Overview

As a Heavy-Duty Equipment Mechanic, you will be responsible for the proactive maintenance, diagnostic testing, and repair of our manufacturing facility’s mobile and heavy equipment fleet. Your primary focus is keeping operations moving safely and efficiently by minimizing downtime on equipment such as forklifts, trucks, and cranes.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct scheduled inspections, fluid changes, lubrications, and safety checks on forklifts, cranes, and transport trucks.
  • Use advanced computerized diagnostic tools and multimeters to identify mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic faults.
  • Disassemble, repair, and reassemble heavy equipment components, including engines and transmissions.
  • Inspect, adjust, and repair wire ropes, sheaves, limit switches, and hydraulic systems specific to cranes.
  • Accurately log maintenance activities, parts usage, and repair times.
  • Maintain a clean, hazard-free workspace and ensure all repairs adhere to safety regulations.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED required.
  • Completion of a trade or technical school program in Diesel Mechanics or Heavy Equipment Technology is highly preferred.
  • 3–7 years of hands-on experience maintaining and repairing heavy-duty trucks, forklifts, or cranes.
  • Strong background in reading and interpreting electrical and hydraulic schematics.
  • Proficiency with diesel/gas engines, drivelines, and mobile equipment electrical systems.
  • Ability to identify, correct, and report safety hazards.
  • Ability to lift production objects of up to 50lbs.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
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How this job compares in Riverton, NJ

Pay in context

At roughly $34/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $35/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey, whose middle half runs $30–$41/hr across 91 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 46% 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.

The local market in Riverton, NJ

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Riverton, 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 152 other active welding openings from 108 employers. Browse welding jobs across New Jersey.

The most active employers in New Jersey at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are gpac (11), DC Fabricators (4), and UPS (3). 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 Lyndhurst at $33/hr and South Plainfield at $32/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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