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Overview

The Maintenance Mechanic is responsible for mechanically troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining various types of industrial machinery and equipment. Howmet Aerospace Inc. is a leading global provider of advanced engineered solutions for the aerospace and transportation industries, focusing on jet engine components and other critical parts.

Responsibilities

  • Mechanically troubleshoot, repair and maintain all types of industrial machinery, equipment and systems.
  • Rebuild or repair machines or assemblies to original operating conditions.
  • Work with CNC machines, punch presses, and other metal forming machines.
  • Manage project work and document product equipment or processes.
  • Communicate and review repair problems with Engineering, Tool Room, Production Team Leads or vendors.
  • Perform equipment failure analyses including preventative and unscheduled maintenance.
  • Plan and implement preventative and predictive maintenance programs.
  • Keep neat orderly records and order spare parts.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED equivalent.
  • 5+ years Maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment.
  • Ability to fabricate, weld, or machine parts as required.
  • Knowledge of mechanical troubleshooting including power transmission, fluid power, and pneumatics.
  • Ability to read, write, and understand written specifications, procedures and prints.
  • Ability to design and execute from verbal instructions.
  • Good mechanical aptitude and ability to work on close tolerance equipment and/or parts.
  • Ability to use various measuring devices like torque wrench, micrometers, Vernier calipers, and dial indicators.
  • Ability to use math to calculate dimensions and determine equipment setups.
  • Safety and quality conscious.
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How this job compares in Brea, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $37/hr, this posting sits about 16% above the $32/hr median for welding jobs across California — toward the top of a $27–$38/hr middle band drawn from 313 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 72% 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 Brea, CA

Brea, CA currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 399 other active welding openings from 208 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Brea, or widen the search to California.

Howmet Aerospace currently has 1 other opening 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. Maintenance Mechanic figures were last recalculated when this page was built.