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Job Description

Overview

Looking for a reliable, hard-working hand to help around the shop in San Jose. This role requires basic automotive mechanical knowledge and the ability to perform welding and fabrication tasks.

Responsibilities

  • Handle basic mechanical tasks.
  • Perform fabrication and welding work.

Requirements

  • Basic automotive mechanical knowledge and experience.
  • Ability to weld and know your way around a welder.
  • Must have reliable transportation to get to work on time every day.
  • Local applicants preferred.
  • Must be able to listen to instructions and execute them properly.

Compensation

  • Pay: $35.00 – $40.00 / hour depending on experience.
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How this job compares in SAN JOSE, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $38/hr, this posting sits about 17% above the $32/hr median for welding jobs across California — toward the top of a $26–$43/hr middle band drawn from 323 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 67% 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 SAN JOSE, CA

SAN JOSE, CA currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 429 other active welding openings from 209 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in SAN JOSE, or widen the search to California.

Welding Shop in San Francisco Bay, CA currently has 8 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 (27), Aerotek (18), and Honeywell Aerospace (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 Torrance at $47/hr, Long Beach at $42/hr, and Los Angeles at $40/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near SAN JOSE, CA

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Mechanic / Shop Assistant with Welding Skills ($35 - $40/hr) Body: - skilled trades / artisan - job employment -... figures were last recalculated when this page was built.