Engineering Technician III (100% Traveling)
Location
Diamond Bar, CA
Wage
$28.9 – $41.91/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 1, 2026
Location
Diamond Bar, CA
Wage
$28.9 – $41.91/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 1, 2026
At Niagara, we’re looking for Team Members who want to be part of achieving our mission to provide our customers the highest quality most affordable bottled water. The Engineering Technician III will work on the production floor with plant technicians at Niagara facilities around the country, performing diagnostic visits and providing support for annual rebuilds and overhauls.
At roughly $35/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $33/hr median for welding jobs across California, whose middle half runs $27–$41/hr across 483 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 56% 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.
Diamond Bar, CA is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across California as a whole we're tracking 627 other active welding openings from 306 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across California.
Niagara Bottling currently has 2 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 (31), Aerotek (16), 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 Redondo Beach at $51/hr, Santa Ana at $48/hr, and Long Beach at $40/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Engineering Technician III (100% Traveling) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.