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Job Description

Overview

The maintenance mechanic position is responsible for performing highly diversified duties to install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain production and facility equipment to support the achievement of the site's business goals.

Responsibilities

  • Perform preventive maintenance as assigned and scheduled by the Supervisor.
  • Make hourly or needed rounds and readings of plant equipment and record all logs.
  • Respond to calls or work orders pertaining to plant operation.
  • Endorse a report to the relief operator regarding the condition of all equipment.
  • Report equipment status or problems immediately to Supervisor.
  • Receive and monitor temperature and humidity and record readings.
  • Make adjustments/repairs to equipment as necessary to maintain safe operation.
  • Maintain and monitor Emergency Contractor readings.
  • Replace and install ceiling tiles.
  • Repair doors and door hardware.
  • Perform small floor repairs, including installing the basecove.
  • Address small plumbing issues, including repairing toilet valves, fluorometers, and faucet replacements.

Requirements

  • High school diploma.
  • Preferred 3 years’ experience in a facility maintenance setting.
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How this job compares in East Orange, NJ

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across New Jersey currently run a median of $33/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $28–$38/hr across 107 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in East Orange, NJ

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in East Orange, NJ, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 183 other active welding openings from 127 employers. 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 (7), Lockheed Martin (7), and DC Fabricators (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 Moorestown at $42/hr, Newark at $33/hr, and Cherry Hill at $31/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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