Manufacturing Engineer
Location
Kearny, NJ
Wage
$50.5 – $64.9/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on November 3, 2026
Location
Kearny, NJ
Wage
$50.5 – $64.9/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on November 3, 2026
Join a dynamic team that is leveraging recent breakthroughs in stellarator physics and engineering to create a faster and simpler approach to commercializing fusion energy. The company aims to reinvent the stellarator to create a limitless source of zero-emission energy for a sustainable future.
At roughly $58/hr, this posting sits about 114% above the $27/hr median for manufacturing welder jobs across New Jersey — toward the top of a $22–$32/hr middle band drawn from 9 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 100% 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.
Kearny, NJ is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 161 other active welding openings from 121 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 Valcor Engineering Corporation (6), UPS (4), and Depot Connect International (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 Cherry Hill at $31/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. Manufacturing Engineer figures were last recalculated when this page was built.