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Overview

Davis Wire Corporation, the largest wire manufacturer in the western United States, is seeking a dedicated Maintenance Mechanic to join their team in Irwindale, California. The role involves completing repairs, overhauls, and installations of machinery and equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Completes building, re-building, repair, overhaul, installation and/or removal of machinery and equipment.
  • Machining and fitting to close tolerances with speed and accuracy.
  • Cooperates with machine operators and skilled tradesmen in job duties.
  • Works on repairs and constructs new machines and other shop equipment.
  • Diagnoses trouble with machines in plant and makes new parts and reassembles them.
  • Reads and interprets blueprints/sketches and creates sketches for new parts.
  • Operates machine tools, welding equipment and plumbing tools.
  • Maintains required housekeeping of work area and observes all safety rules.
  • Performs other tasks and duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 2 years’ experience working in a maintenance mechanic role.
  • Maintenance mechanic experience in an industrial manufacturing environment is a major plus.
  • Strong background in troubleshooting and repairing motors and gearboxes.
  • Demonstrable competence working with power tools, presses and other industrial equipment.
  • Experience as a welder is a plus.
  • Certifications desirable, but not required.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • This is a union position.
  • New hires are required to pay a union initiation fee to the local union.
  • Upon passing probation, new hires will join the union and will be required to pay monthly union dues.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Irwindale, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $31/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $33/hr median for welding jobs across California, whose middle half runs $26–$41/hr across 358 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 45% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Irwindale, CA

Irwindale, CA currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across California as a whole we're tracking 457 other active welding openings from 225 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Irwindale, or widen the search to California.

The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (25), Volt (15), and Aerotek (14). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within California, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Santa Ana at $53/hr, Long Beach at $49/hr, and Torrance at $43/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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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 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.