Job Description

Overview

The Maintenance Mechanic - Pipefitter is responsible for installing, repairing, maintaining, and fabricating plant facilities and equipment. This role requires a government security clearance and is suitable for US Citizens.

Responsibilities

  • Installs, repairs, maintains, and fabricates plant facilities and equipment.
  • Performs power plant, mechanical, and electrical repairs and maintenance.
  • Conducts welding, pipefitting, air conditioning, carpentry work, and painting.
  • Performs periodic inspections and tests and reports findings.
  • Receives general instructions from supervisors and notices of service required.
  • Works from blueprints, sketches, and oral instructions.
  • Uses hand tools, power tools, and other necessary equipment.
  • May direct other employees assigned to the job.

Requirements

  • Must have a primary and secondary skill, one of which must be electrician, carpenter, pipe fitter, air conditioning mechanic, maintenance welder, or machine repairer.
  • Must be able to operate material handling equipment and rigging equipment.
  • Apprenticeship papers, Journeymen’s card or 5 years or more of equivalent work experience in a skilled trade discipline is required.
  • A working knowledge of machine tools and welding is a plus.
  • Strong verbal communication skills and the ability to work in a team environment are necessary.
  • The candidate must supply all customary hand tools of the trade.
  • New employees must pass the company physical and drug test.
  • Will be required to acquire a government security clearance.
  • Must regularly demonstrate the ability to lift a nominal weight, climb ladders, utilize elevated working platforms, and bend while servicing equipment.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • This position requires a government security clearance.
  • Must be a US Citizen for consideration.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO

How this job compares in Moorestown, NJ

Pay in context

At roughly $42/hr, this posting sits about 27% above the $33/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey — toward the top of a $28–$39/hr middle band drawn from 102 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 82% 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 Moorestown, NJ

Moorestown, 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.

Similar openings near Moorestown, NJ

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Mechanic - Pipefitter figures were last recalculated when this page was built.