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Job Description

Overview

Join a high-volume manufacturing facility as a MIG Welder, producing commercial flatbed bodies using horizontal and vertical welding techniques on sheet metal. You will work in a machine shop environment alongside other skilled trades professionals, contributing to the fabrication of durable, high-quality products on a stable first-shift schedule.

Responsibilities

  • Perform MIG welding on sheet metal components.
  • Contribute to the fabrication of commercial flatbed bodies.

Requirements

Benefits

Additional Information

  • Stable first-shift schedule.
  • Machine shop environment.
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How this job compares in Brea, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $17/hr, this posting comes in about 39% below the $27/hr median for MIG welder jobs across California, where the middle half runs $21–$27/hr across 10 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 0% 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.

The local market in Brea, CA

Brea, CA currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 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 Brea, or widen the search to California.

Aerotek currently has 16 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 (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 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.

What you'll be running

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.

See all MIG welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

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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. Mig Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.