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Job Description

Overview

Join the American Airlines family as a Plant Maintenance Mechanic, where you'll play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and punctuality of flights while enjoying opportunities for career growth and advancement.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoot, disassemble, clean, check, repair, rework, replace, fabricate, assemble, install, and adjust building components and equipment.
  • Execute plumbing and millwright assignments.
  • Weld materials and perform general building maintenance.
  • Maintain locks and keys for facilities and digital security access doors.
  • Assist in the storage, removal, and clean-up of hazardous waste.
  • Ensure proper completion of forms, records, reports, and other paperwork.
  • Request parts and clean the work area after each shift.
  • Perform Foreign Object Debris (FOD) walks.
  • Coordinate with vendors regarding technical questions and escort them throughout airport property.
  • Report to position on time and perform all functions in accordance with safety procedures.
  • Complete job-relevant trainings and adhere to government regulations and company policies.
  • Coordinate with other employees, vendors, and stakeholders to accomplish work tasks.
  • Perform duties requiring general safety awareness and wear required uniforms and work shoes.
  • Use relevant electronic systems to complete work.

Requirements

  • High School diploma or GED.
  • Valid driver's license.
  • Ability to read, write, fluently speak and understand English.
  • Minimum of 36 months journeyman experience in maintenance trades.
  • Possess applicable state or city license.
  • Willingness to work outdoors in any weather conditions.
  • Availability to work extra hours during operational needs.
  • Ability to work rotating shifts including weekends and holidays.
  • Must fulfill FAA criminal background checks for airport access.
  • Must secure appropriate airport authority and/or US Customs security badges.
  • Successful completion of drug screening process.

Benefits

  • Travel Perks
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Work schedule includes varying shifts, weekends, and holidays.
  • Relocation expenses are the responsibility of the candidate.

Benefits

Travel Perks
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
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How this job compares in Los Angeles, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $40/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $38/hr median for welding jobs in Los Angeles, CA, whose middle half runs $32–$58/hr across 26 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 54% 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 Los Angeles, CA

We're tracking 40 other active welding openings in Los Angeles, CA right now, from 30 different employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 399 other active welding openings from 207 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Los Angeles, or widen the search to California.

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. Los Angeles is among them.

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