Maintenance Technician I - UniFirst
Location
Maplewood, NJ
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 11, 2026
Location
Maplewood, NJ
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 11, 2026
UniFirst is seeking a reliable and hardworking Maintenance Tech I to join their community, responsible for repairs, maintenance, installation, and troubleshooting of industrial equipment. The company offers a standard Monday - Friday work week with periodic night and weekend overtime, along with on-the-job training.
This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across New Jersey currently run a median of $33/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $28–$38/hr across 107 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Maplewood, 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 184 other active welding openings from 127 employers. Browse welding jobs across New Jersey.
The most active employers in New Jersey at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Valcor Engineering Corporation (7), Lockheed Martin (7), and DC Fabricators (4). 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 Moorestown at $42/hr, Newark at $33/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 I - UniFirst figures were last recalculated when this page was built.