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Job Description

Overview

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Plumber Steamfitter I for the Division of Institutional Planning & Operations (IP&O). This position involves performing maintenance, repairs, and installations of plumbing systems and fixtures under the direction of the Supervisor, Maintenance and Construction.

Responsibilities

  • Operates, maintains, repairs and installs pipe systems, plumbing fixtures, heating fixtures, steam fixtures, regulators valves and various system elements/appliances.
  • Responds to plumbing trouble calls and requests within the facilities using hand tools, power tools, analyzing equipment and testing instruments.
  • Performs routine maintenance, preventive maintenance and inspections on plumbing systems equipment and related equipment/systems.
  • Installs, repairs and/or maintains water, gas, oil, waste disposal and high-pressure steam and high-temperature hot water.
  • Prepares, maintains and submits requisitions for material, work orders, required records and reports relating to plumbing equipment/systems.

Requirements

  • Technical School diploma or an equivalent level of knowledge plus five (5) years of experience in the operational maintenance and installation of plumbing systems/equipment in an educational, industrial or health care setting.
  • A valid driver’s license.
  • New Jersey Black Seal Engineer’s License is preferred.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Full Time
  • Standard Hours 40.00
  • Union Description IUOE 68
  • Pension Eligibility PERS

Benefits

Health Insurance
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How this job compares in Newark, NJ

Pay in context

At roughly $33/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $34/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey, whose middle half runs $29–$40/hr across 106 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 44% 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 Newark, NJ

We're tracking 14 other active welding openings in Newark, NJ right now, from 10 different employers. 11 of them were added in the last week. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 166 other active welding openings from 123 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Newark, or widen the search to New Jersey.

Rutgers University currently has 2 other openings 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 Darling Ingredients (5), Carvana (4), and Lockheed Martin (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 Newark at $35/hr and Lyndhurst at $30/hr. Newark 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. Plumber Steamfitter I figures were last recalculated when this page was built.