Mechanical Technician (Facilities)
Location
Hawthorne, CA
Wage
$23 – $51/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 9, 2026
Location
Hawthorne, CA
Wage
$23 – $51/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 9, 2026
SpaceX is developing technologies to enable human life on Mars, and as a Mechanical Technician (Facilities), you will help design, build, activate, and maintain advanced manufacturing facilities while solving complex problems in a fast-paced environment.
At roughly $37/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $35/hr median for welding jobs in Hawthorne, CA, whose middle half runs $31–$58/hr across 38 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 53% 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.
We're tracking 38 other active welding openings in Hawthorne, CA right now, from 3 different employers. 18 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 594 other active welding openings from 272 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Hawthorne, or widen the search to California.
SpaceX currently has 36 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 (36), Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (17), and Honeywell Aerospace (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 Pasadena at $51/hr, Santa Ana at $48/hr, and El Segundo at $48/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. Mechanical Technician (Facilities) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.