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Job Description

Overview

At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. The Senior Orbital Tube Weld Technician will be part of the Stage Manufacturing team, responsible for turning design into reality by building the primary structures of the Terran R vehicle.

Responsibilities

  • Set up and operate orbital tube welding machine and necessary purge equipment
  • Prep, assemble, fit up, and tack complex fluids assemblies at elevated heights
  • Verify weld quality visually and using a borescope system
  • Collaborate with leadership and team members

Requirements

  • 4+ years of OTW experience
  • Experience with welding and tacking
  • Experience with aerospace mechanical assembly
  • Comfortable working in a confined space
  • Ability to read engineering drawings

Benefits

  • PTO

Additional Information

  • This is a 1st shift position with a standard schedule of 5am-3:30pm PT, Monday through Friday
  • Position structured around a baseline expectation of a 50-hour workweek, which may include occasional overtime

Benefits

PTO
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How this job compares in Long Beach, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $42/hr, this posting sits about 30% above the $32/hr median for welding jobs in Long Beach, CA — toward the top of a $30–$54/hr middle band drawn from 12 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 75% 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 Long Beach, CA

We're tracking 17 other active welding openings in Long Beach, CA right now, from 8 different employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 399 other active welding openings from 208 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Long Beach, or widen the search to California.

Relativity Space currently has 4 other openings live in California, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (20), Aerotek (17), and Volt (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 Santa Ana at $48/hr, Los Angeles at $38/hr, and Hawthorne at $36/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. Senior Orbital Tube Weld Technician, First Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.