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Overview

The Welder position in Los Angeles, CA involves maintaining, repairing, and optimizing HVAC systems and associated equipment, with a focus on preventive and corrective maintenance. The role requires interpreting blueprints and schematics, as well as ensuring compliance with safety guidelines.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain, repair, and optimize HVAC systems and associated equipment.
  • Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems.
  • Conduct brazing, soldering, welding, pipefitting, and fabrication.
  • Interpret complex blueprints, schematics, and wiring diagrams.
  • Inspect, troubleshoot, and service motors, pumps, compressors, ducts, and controls.
  • Ensure compliance with company safety guidelines and training requirements.

Requirements

  • Valid Driver’s License.
  • Minimum 3 years of related HVAC/Electrical maintenance and repair experience in a commercial facility.
  • Ability to obtain airport security clearance.
  • Availability to work day or night shifts, including weekends and holidays.
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How this job compares in Los Angeles, CA

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Los Angeles, CA currently run a median of $43/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $35–$61/hr across 61 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Los Angeles, CA

We're tracking 82 other active welding openings in Los Angeles, CA right now, from 54 different employers. 44 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 596 other active welding openings from 293 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Los Angeles, or widen the search to California.

The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (34), 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 Redondo Beach at $65/hr, Long Beach at $49/hr, and Santa Ana at $48/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Los Angeles, CA

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.