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Overview

At Benjamin Moore, we empower our team members to achieve their goals and make a positive impact in our communities. The Maintenance Mechanic will maintain production and facility equipment assets by performing a variety of routine and reactive maintenance.

Responsibilities

  • Perform preventive maintenance, repairs, and overhauls on all equipment as required.
  • Diagnose equipment problems and take corrective action to achieve optimum line/mixer efficiency.
  • Recommend and implement equipment modifications to increase reliability.
  • Independently set up, changeover, and repair filling equipment and packaging lines.
  • Support operations in line changeovers, including disassembly and re-assembly of Packaging/Manufacturing related line equipment.
  • Assist in the diagnosis of machine electronic controls, sensors, servers, and drives.
  • Understand systems that impact line efficiency or operation.
  • Perform assigned preventative maintenance to sustain line performance and document all work in CMMS system.
  • Install new and repair existing equipment from written specifications.
  • Complete paperwork in strict accordance with SOP requirements.
  • Follow site Safety policies and procedures including LOTO, PTW, and Machine Guarding.
  • Document all work performance via the work order system as directed.
  • Participate in site improvement initiatives including Root Cause Analysis and Breakdown Analysis.
  • Work collaboratively with production technicians and other mechanics.

Requirements

  • 3 years+ Maintenance/troubleshooting experience in a manufacturing environment.
  • HS Degree.
  • Basic electrical experience in an industrial facility; PLC and instrument control is desired.
  • Experience with similar equipment and processes.
  • Ability to work in a team environment.
  • Follow site Environmental and Safety policies and Life Critical Rules.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • 2nd shift.
  • Location: Newark, NJ manufacturing facility.
  • Required to work overtime to meet company or department needs.

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $39/hr, this posting sits about 15% above the $34/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey — toward the top of a $29–$40/hr middle band drawn from 106 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 72% 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 Newark, NJ

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.

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