Maintenance Mechanic
Location
Vernon, CA
Posted on September 10, 2026
Location
Vernon, CA
Posted on September 10, 2026
The Maintenance Mechanic position involves performing maintenance, repair, and installation of industrial machinery and systems in a food processing plant. The role requires troubleshooting equipment failures, conducting preventative maintenance, and improving equipment reliability.
This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across California currently run a median of $34/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $27–$43/hr across 499 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.
Vernon, CA currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 650 other active welding openings from 314 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Vernon, or widen the search to California.
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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Mechanic figures were last recalculated when this page was built.