Industrial Maintenance Mechanic 3rd shift
Location
Philadelphia, PA
Wage
$25 – $35/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 6, 2026
Location
Philadelphia, PA
Wage
$25 – $35/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 6, 2026
WM is seeking a Plant Maintenance Technician for the 3rd shift, offering a safer work environment, career progression, and financial stability for employees. This role involves maintaining and repairing various equipment to ensure the plant operates efficiently and safely.
At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $32/hr median for welding jobs in Philadelphia, PA, whose middle half runs $29–$37/hr across 12 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 33% 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.
We're tracking 53 other active welding openings in Philadelphia, PA right now, from 31 different employers. 19 of them were added in the last week. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 254 other active welding openings from 159 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Philadelphia, or widen the search to Pennsylvania.
WM currently has 1 other opening live in Pennsylvania, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (12), Hanwha Philly Shipyard (6), and TradeWorx (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $32/hr and York at $25/hr. Philadelphia is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Industrial Maintenance Mechanic 3rd shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.