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Overview

Moog is a performance culture that empowers people to achieve great things, focusing on solving technical challenges in a trusted environment. The company is seeking an Assembly/Harnessing Technician for their Space and Defense Group in Chatsworth, CA, offering a collaborative work environment and opportunities for career growth.

Responsibilities

  • Assemble high reliability chassis and final assemblies using circuit cards, stand offs, wire harnesses, solder and crimping, electrical and mechanical instruments.
  • Perform high reliability soldering and crimping operations on complex sub-assemblies, electronic, and mechanical assemblies, repair of circuit boards, jumper wires, and wire harnesses.
  • Decipher and work from assembly drawings, worksheets, parts lists, test specifications, and other instructions, both written and oral.
  • Know and follow applicable Electro-Static Discharge (ESD) procedures.
  • Perform running harnessing and work with motion control pointing mechanisms as required.
  • Work in concert with Product Engineering in diagnosing and proposing necessary rework on intricate models.
  • Collaborate with engineering to innovate testing procedures and suggest changes in worksheet processes.
  • Clean components to required cleanliness levels and maintain traceability records, MDC forms, and configuration records.
  • Work on repair units normally run with production units.
  • May be required to travel to customer facilities and service Moog hardware.

Requirements

  • HS Diploma (or equivalent) is required; additional training from a technical/vocational school is valued.
  • 5+ years of electrical assembly and soldering experience.
  • Experience in a highly regulated manufacturing environment (e.g. Aerospace, Medical Devices/FDA) required.
  • J-STD solder certification required; NASA Certification preferred.
  • Ability to work directly from engineering drawings and written instructions.
  • Strong interpersonal skills.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Onsite – Chatsworth, CA
  • First shift working hours.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in Chatsworth, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $32/hr, this posting comes in about 30% below the $45/hr median for manufacturing welder jobs across California, where the middle half runs $31–$66/hr across 23 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 35% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Chatsworth, CA

Chatsworth, CA currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 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 544 other active welding openings from 251 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Chatsworth, or widen the search to California.

The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (36), Relativity Space (21), and Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (16). 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 Redondo Beach at $65/hr, Pasadena at $61/hr, and Santa Ana at $48/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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