Field Service Technician
Location
Newark, NJ
Wage
$60,000 – $90,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 27, 2026
Location
Newark, NJ
Wage
$60,000 – $90,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 27, 2026
Ballard's Customer Care team is seeking Field Service Technicians to support customers in the Northeastern United States. This role involves the repair, refurbishment, testing, and maintenance of fuel cell modules and components, ensuring high quality and safety standards.
At roughly $36/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 58% 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 14 other active welding openings in Newark, NJ right now, from 9 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 122 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.
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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Field Service Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.