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Overview

At MasTec Communications Group, as a Fiber Splicer, you will develop new skills in a safety-minded environment while expanding technology for a better community. Join the MasTec family to provide high-quality service to customers and communities while maintaining a commitment to safety.

Responsibilities

  • Produce end-to-end fiber optic networks.
  • Test and troubleshoot the continuity of fiber optic networks.
  • Operate all testing equipment and resolve challenges common to fiber optic networks.
  • Prep fiber splice enclosures such as Tyco, CommScope, and Corning.
  • Utilize fusion splicer and test equipment including OTDR and power meter.
  • Have knowledge of fiber design, reading documentation, understanding light levels, and dB loss.
  • Work in outdoor utility construction sites.

Requirements

  • Safety is a part of your day-to-day.
  • Track record of completing work with a high level of quality.
  • Ability to solve hard problems and enjoy hands-on work.
  • Looking for long-term projects.
  • Comfortable working on a ladder or a bucket truck.
  • Flexible and enjoy a variety of shifts with overtime.
  • At least 3-5 years of fiber splicing and troubleshooting experience.

Benefits

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

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in South Plainfield, NJ

Pay in context

At roughly $48/hr, this posting sits about 46% above the $33/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey — toward the top of a $27–$40/hr middle band drawn from 101 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 90% 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 South Plainfield, NJ

South Plainfield, NJ currently has 7 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 7 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 174 other active welding openings from 130 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in South Plainfield, or widen the search to New Jersey.

Rhino Cable Services, Inc. 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 (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 $32/hr and Cherry Hill at $31/hr. South Plainfield is among them.

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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. Fiber Splicer figures were last recalculated when this page was built.