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Overview

This Maintenance Mechanic position offers an opportunity to work with a multimillion-dollar food processing business that started as a small poultry farm. The role requires 1-3+ years of industry experience and provides a competitive salary along with excellent benefits.

Responsibilities

  • Connect wires to circuit breakers, transformers, and other components.
  • Inspect electrical systems, equipment, and components to identify hazards and ensure compliance with codes.
  • Test electrical systems and continuity of circuits using testing devices.
  • Visually inspect and test machinery and equipment.
  • Listen for unusual sounds from machines to detect malfunctions.
  • Dismantle defective machines and install new or repaired parts.
  • Clean and lubricate shafts, bearings, gears, and other machinery parts.
  • Install, program, or repair automated machinery and equipment.
  • Set up and operate machine tools to repair or fabricate machine parts.
  • Operate cutting torch or welding equipment to cut or join metal parts.
  • Write work orders and order parts if necessary.
  • Communicate with Tech Support as needed.

Requirements

  • One year certificate from college or technical school; or three years related experience and/or training.
  • Ability to work independently or as part of a team.
  • Good reasoning abilities and sound judgment.
  • Demonstrated application of principles, methods, techniques, tools, and equipment used in maintenance and repair.
  • Excellent organizational skills with the ability to prioritize projects.
  • Ability to adapt, troubleshoot, research solutions, and make recommendations.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Vernon, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $30/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 38% 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 Vernon, CA

Vernon, CA currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. 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 Vernon, or widen the search to California.

Jobot currently has 5 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 (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.