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Job Description

Overview

This role focuses on the safe, efficient, and high-quality fitting and joining of skylights, smoke vents, and related components using established fabrication and welding processes. You will work on a day shift in a production environment, using wire-feed welding equipment and fabrication tools to build parts to precise specifications and prepare them for assembly.

Responsibilities

  • Safely and securely move required materials into and out of the work area.
  • Fit and join skylights, smoke vents, and related components.
  • Use wire-feed welding equipment and fabrication tools.
  • Build parts to precise specifications.
  • Prepare parts for assembly.

Requirements

Benefits

Additional Information

  • Contract position.
  • Start ASAP.
  • Day shift.
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How this job compares in Santa Ana, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $19/hr, this posting comes in about 42% below the $33/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across California, where the middle half runs $26–$37/hr across 47 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 6% 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 Santa Ana, CA

Santa Ana, CA currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. 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 Santa Ana, 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. Santa Ana is among them.

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