Production/Manufacturing Technician II (1st Shift)
Location
Torrance, CA
Wage
$22.35 – $30.25/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 10, 2026
Location
Torrance, CA
Wage
$22.35 – $30.25/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 10, 2026
This position supports day-to-day production activities, including assembly, testing, inventory support, and shipment of hardware systems. The ideal candidate will have hands-on manufacturing or technical assembly experience and the ability to work with moderate independence in a production or lab environment.
At roughly $26/hr, this posting comes in about 36% below the $41/hr median for welding jobs in Torrance, CA, where the middle half runs $32–$58/hr across 34 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 15% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.
We're tracking 55 other active welding openings in Torrance, CA right now, from 18 different employers. 15 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 636 other active welding openings from 309 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.
The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (34), Honeywell Aerospace (16), and Valar Atomics (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 Redondo Beach at $51/hr, Long Beach at $42/hr, and Los Angeles 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. Production/Manufacturing Technician II (1st Shift) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.