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Overview

At Singer Vehicle Design, we are dedicated to restoring and reimagining Porsche 911s, and we are looking for a Bodywork Technician to join our team in Torrance, CA. This role requires passion, precision, and problem-solving skills to ensure the highest standards in body and paintwork.

Responsibilities

  • Perform high quality paint repair and production work
  • Perform high quality color sand and polishing work including filing, grinding, and sanding of repaired surfaces using power tools and hand tools
  • Surface vehicles without supervision
  • Perform high quality surfacing repair and production work, including depression repair
  • Align body panels to gap and flush specification
  • Shoot primer and surfacing primer without supervision

Requirements

  • Custom car or restoration experience
  • Minimum five (5) years of experience in high-end luxury automobiles, hot rods, restoration body shops
  • Experience applying and mixing water-based refinish basecoats, 2K refinish clearcoats, and high film build urethane primers and sealers
  • Experience using polyester fillers to correct and shape body panels
  • Color sanding experience
  • Knowledge of high-level surfacing and gaping using block sanding methods
  • Must possess high attention to detail, adhere to high standards, and work well in a dedicated team environment
  • Team oriented, with a strong ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment to multiple deadlines

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • This is an onsite position in Torrance, CA
  • Schedule is Monday – Friday 1:45pm – 10:15pm with potential overtime
  • Role is eligible for $1.50 per hour shift differential

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Torrance, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $49/hr, this posting sits about 49% above the $33/hr median for welding jobs in Torrance, CA — toward the top of a $32–$49/hr middle band drawn from 20 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 80% 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.

The local market in Torrance, CA

We're tracking 44 other active welding openings in Torrance, CA right now, from 14 different employers. 8 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 627 other active welding openings from 306 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Torrance, or widen the search to California.

Singer Vehicle Design currently has 9 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 (31), 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 $51/hr, Santa Ana at $48/hr, and Long Beach at $40/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Bodywork Technician (Surfacing) - 2nd shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.