Outside Plant Technician
Location
Gardena, CA
Wage
$17 – $52/hr
Employment Type
Temporary
Posted on September 26, 2026
Location
Gardena, CA
Wage
$17 – $52/hr
Employment Type
Temporary
Posted on September 26, 2026
The Outside Plant Technician works with heavy-duty power equipment and hand tools to construct and repair outside plant cable facilities, conduit, and pole lines. This role requires obtaining a Class A Driver's License and involves significant physical labor while adhering to safety and quality standards.
At roughly $35/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $35/hr median for welding jobs across California, whose middle half runs $28–$49/hr across 443 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 48% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.
Gardena, CA currently has 9 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 592 other active welding openings from 267 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Gardena, or widen the search to 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. Gardena is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Outside Plant Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.