Maintenance Technician
Location
Pedricktown, NJ
Wage
$30 – $35/hr
Posted on October 12, 2026
Location
Pedricktown, NJ
Wage
$30 – $35/hr
Posted on October 12, 2026
A leading food manufacturer is seeking experienced Maintenance Technicians for 1st and 2nd shifts, offering excellent pay and benefits.
At roughly $33/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $33/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey, whose middle half runs $27–$40/hr across 101 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 48% 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.
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 174 other active welding openings from 129 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 (8), Valcor Engineering Corporation (6), and Xylem (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 South Plainfield at $38/hr and Cherry Hill at $31/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.