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Overview

Join American Airlines as an Aviation Maintenance Technician, where you'll play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and punctuality of flights while enjoying opportunities for career growth and travel.

Responsibilities

  • Service aircraft, including mechanical work involved in dismantling, repairing, and maintaining airworthiness.
  • Conduct scheduled maintenance inspections.
  • Certify for the quality of own workmanship according to maintenance manuals.
  • Connect/remove ground power and ground start units.
  • Push out/tow aircraft and perform guideman functions.
  • Sign mechanical flight releases and/or airworthiness releases.
  • Maintain knowledge of and use manuals and maintenance resources.
  • Complete forms, records, reports, and other paperwork properly.
  • Perform Foreign Object Debris (FOD) walks.
  • Clean work area and request parts.

Requirements

  • High School diploma or GED.
  • Valid driver's license.
  • Ability to read, write, fluently speak and understand English.
  • Airframe and Power Plant License required.
  • Willingness to work outdoors in any weather conditions.
  • Willingness to work extra hours as needed.
  • Ability to work rotating shifts including weekends and holidays.
  • Must fulfill FAA criminal background checks.
  • Must secure appropriate airport authority and/or US Customs security badges.
  • Subject to Department of Transportation (DOT) drug and alcohol testing.

Benefits

  • Travel Perks
  • Health Insurance
  • Wellness Programs
  • 401k
  • Additional Benefits

Additional Information

  • Reports to position on time, as scheduled, and at assigned location.
  • Must adhere to safety procedures and company policies.

Benefits

Travel Perks
Health Insurance
Wellness Programs
401k
Additional Benefits
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How this job compares in Los Angeles, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $45/hr, this posting sits about 13% above the $40/hr median for welding jobs in Los Angeles, CA — toward the top of a $30–$58/hr middle band drawn from 73 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 60% 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 Los Angeles, CA

We're tracking 103 other active welding openings in Los Angeles, CA right now, from 64 different employers. 58 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 650 other active welding openings from 315 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.

American Airlines currently has 1 other opening 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 (34), Honeywell Aerospace (16), and Aerotek (13). 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 $53/hr, Redondo Beach at $51/hr, and Long Beach at $42/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. Aviation Maintenance Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.