Maintenance Mechanic 2nd Shift
Location
Stockton, CA
Wage
$64,480 – $72,800/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on August 18, 2026
Location
Stockton, CA
Wage
$64,480 – $72,800/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 18, 2026
This is a 2nd shift Maintenance Mechanic position at Haydon, where the focus is on maintaining and troubleshooting industrial machinery. The role involves diagnosing mechanical problems, performing preventive maintenance, and collaborating with the production team to ensure machine efficiency.
At roughly $33/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $32/hr median for welding jobs across California, whose middle half runs $27–$38/hr across 313 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 55% 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.
Stockton, CA currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 399 other active welding openings from 207 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Stockton, 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. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
This posting calls for MIG. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work.
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 2nd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.