Maintenance Specialist IV
Location
Long Beach, CA
Wage
$26 – $30/hr
Posted on August 13, 2026
Location
Long Beach, CA
Wage
$26 – $30/hr
Posted on August 13, 2026
The Maintenance Specialist IV is responsible for the repair and preventative maintenance of campus buildings and surrounding areas, ensuring a high level of pride in maintaining the campus for students undergoing technical training. The ideal candidate should have proficiency in various repair and construction trades, including painting, drywall repair, plumbing, electrical work, welding, and HVAC repair.
At roughly $28/hr, this posting comes in about 20% below the $35/hr median for welding jobs in Long Beach, CA, where the middle half runs $30–$54/hr across 12 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 8% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.
We're tracking 17 other active welding openings in Long Beach, CA right now, from 7 different employers. 4 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 Long Beach, 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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Specialist IV figures were last recalculated when this page was built.