Piping Designer
Location
Mount Laurel, NJ
Wage
$48.07 – $62.5/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on October 27, 2026
Location
Mount Laurel, NJ
Wage
$48.07 – $62.5/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on October 27, 2026
The Remote Piping Designer role involves designing medium to complex mechanical and piping systems for industrial and power generation facilities using 2D and 3D design tools. The position requires developing piping diagrams, layouts, and coordinating design activities while adhering to project specifications and standards.
At roughly $55/hr, this posting sits about 63% 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 92% 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.
Mount Laurel, NJ is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 166 other active welding openings from 122 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across 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. 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. Piping Designer figures were last recalculated when this page was built.