General Shop Worker
South Plainfield, NJFull-time$19/hrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 1w ago
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Job overview
The General Shop Worker assists workers fabricating structural or sheet metal products. The role supports fitting, packaging, dimensional verification, production record keeping, material handling, and shop-floor cleanup. Training is provided. The position is on-site, full-time, and scheduled for 40 hours per week on the second shift (evening).
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Full job description
Minimum Education Required
Less than high school education; or up to one-month related experience or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
Training Required/Provided
Training Provided
Compensation
$19.00 - $19.00 / Hourly
Hours Per Week
40
Number Of Positions
3
Shift
Second Shift (Evening)
Job Description
This position assists workers engaged in fabrication of structural or sheet metal products by performing the following duties:
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Lifts, positions, and removes work pieces from machines to assist in fitting and packaging
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Holds tape measuring and other measuring devices top perform dimensional verification of finished products
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Assist line operator in record keeping of production and material utilization
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Loads, stack, transports stocks and work in process by hand or truck
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Cleans up and trim metal preparatory to manufacturing, packaging or shipping
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Picks up, stacks and straps scrap from work area
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Perform general shop floor clean up and maintenance
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Performs other routine duties
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Observes safety and Standard Operating Procedures
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Reports potentially unsafe conditions and uses equipment and materials properly
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
26-0001
Job Type
Full Time
How this job compares
Set against the 3,437 open Manufacturing jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$19/hr
- New Jersey median$28–35/hr21 hourly ranges
- US median$22–25/hr1,010 hourly ranges
This rate, $19/hr, is 40% below the New Jersey median midpoint ($32/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Manufacturing hourly ranges in New Jersey.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 66 open Manufacturing jobs in New Jersey and 3,437 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New Jersey
- Amneal Pharmaceuticals8 open
- Lockheed Martin6 open
- Bristol Myers Squibb5 open
- Experience
- Manufacturing postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 7 years (1,901 postings).
- Education
- 858 of the 3,437 open Manufacturing jobs (25%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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