Senior Maintenance Technician
Location
West Rancho Dominguez, CA
Wage
$39 – $46/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 29, 2026
Location
West Rancho Dominguez, CA
Wage
$39 – $46/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 29, 2026
The Senior Maintenance Technician is responsible for performing diverse duties to install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain production and facility equipment while ensuring safety compliance. This role involves leading the maintenance team, scheduling repairs, and collaborating with various departments to enhance operational efficiency.
At roughly $43/hr, this posting sits about 21% above the $35/hr median for welding jobs across California — toward the top of a $28–$48/hr middle band drawn from 449 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 68% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in West Rancho Dominguez, CA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across California as a whole we're tracking 600 other active welding openings from 270 employers. Browse welding jobs across California.
The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (37), Vast (18), and Relativity Space (17). 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 Gardena at $73/hr, Redondo Beach at $72/hr, and Pasadena at $61/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. Senior Maintenance Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.