Marine Structural Engineer - Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, CA
Wage
$130,000 – $149,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 24, 2026
Location
Long Beach, CA
Wage
$130,000 – $149,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 24, 2026
Hatch is a company committed to positive change with over 70 years of expertise in mining, energy, and infrastructure. The Marine Structural Engineer position in Long Beach involves working on marine structural designs and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams on various port and marine projects.
At roughly $67/hr, this posting sits about 37% above the $49/hr median for welding jobs in Long Beach, CA — toward the top of a $34–$76/hr middle band drawn from 30 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 70% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
We're tracking 35 other active welding openings in Long Beach, CA right now, from 14 different employers. 17 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 Long Beach, 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. Long Beach is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Marine Structural Engineer - Long Beach figures were last recalculated when this page was built.