Fabrication/Machinist/Welder
Location
Scotts Valley, CA
Wage
$36/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 21, 2026
Location
Scotts Valley, CA
Wage
$36/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 21, 2026
Canepa is seeking an experienced professional for their fabrication department and machine shop. The ideal candidate will work with limited supervision using various machines, hand tools, and welders to fabricate automotive parts.
At roughly $36/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $33/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across California, whose middle half runs $25–$37/hr across 47 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 70% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Scotts Valley, CA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across California as a whole we're tracking 399 other active welding openings from 207 employers. Browse welding jobs across 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. Fabrication/Machinist/Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.