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Overview

The Maintenance Mechanic Electrician position requires a skilled individual with primary expertise in electrical work and secondary skills in areas such as carpentry or HVAC. The role involves operating material handling equipment, performing maintenance and repairs, and ensuring compliance with safety and security standards.

Responsibilities

  • Installs, repairs, maintains, and fabricates plant facilities and equipment.
  • Performs mechanical and electrical repairs and maintenance.
  • Conducts welding, pipefitting, HVAC, carpentry work, and painting.
  • Performs periodic inspections and tests and reports findings.
  • 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 primary skill as an electrician and secondary skill in carpentry, pipe fitting, HVAC, maintenance welding, or machine repair.
  • Must be able to operate material handling and rigging equipment.
  • Apprenticeship papers, Journeymen’s card, or 5 years of equivalent work experience in the Electrical discipline is required.
  • A working knowledge of machine tools and welding is a plus.
  • Must supply all customary hand tools of the trade.
  • Must pass the company physical and drug test.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
  • Must regularly demonstrate the ability to lift nominal weight, climb ladders, and utilize elevated working platforms.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10).
  • Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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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–$38/hr middle band drawn from 106 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 81% 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 currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 1 employer. 5 of them were added in the last week. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 183 other active welding openings from 128 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Moorestown, or widen the search to New Jersey.

Lockheed Martin currently has 6 other openings live in New Jersey, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in New Jersey at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Valcor Engineering Corporation (7), Lockheed Martin (6), 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 $45/hr, Newark at $33/hr, and Cherry Hill at $31/hr. Moorestown is among them.

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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 Electrician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.