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Robotic Welder

Location

Riverside, CA

Wage

$26 – $27/hr

Employment Type

Full-time

Required Skills & Certifications

Flux-Core Welding
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Posted on October 1, 2026

Job Description

Now hiring Robotic Welder

Location: Riverside, CA

Pay Rate: $26.00 – $27.00 per hour

Shift: Monday – Friday | 6:00 AM to 2:30 PM

Steel Sweat And Skill Turn Into Real Paychecks

Ready to take your welding game to the next level? Join us in Riverside and work with a crew that’s serious about quality, paychecks, and safety.

What You’ll Need To Bring

  • High school diploma or GED.
  • 2 years experience production welding and fabrication of carbon and stainless-steel products, with a focus on automation programming for Miller Panasonic robotic machines
  • 2+ years of experience in welding, fabrication, and manufacturing.
  • Proven experience with power hand tools and manufacturing equipment.
  • Previous forklift certification (2+ years).
  • Strong mechanical aptitude.
  • Ability to lift 20 lbs unassisted, up to 100 lbs with assistance.
  • Strong team player with a desire to grow within the company.

Why You’ll Love This Gig

  • Weekly paychecks you can count on.
  • Earned Wage Access (access a portion of your earned wages before your payday)
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.
  • Optional 401(k) and life insurance to plan ahead.
  • Referral bonuses for bringing in your crew.
  • A safe, clean shop with solid equipment.
  • Breakroom available.

What A Shift Looks Like

  • Program and operate robotic welding systems for both carbon steel and stainless steel.
  • Utilize your knowledge of welding principles, including weld wire types (solid and flux core), gases, and cutting methods (plasma and oxy/fuel).
  • Operate high-definition plasma cutting tables.
  • Read and interpret moderately complex drawings and prints for accurate fabrication.
  • Use hand and power tools (grinders, hammers, plate rolls, punch presses, etc.).
  • Design and build tools and fixtures to improve production processes.
  • Create jigs and fixtures based on prints or original designs.
  • Maintain a safe production environment while adhering to all safety protocols.
  • Perform additional duties as assigned to support manufacturing operations.

“The supervisors are such great people — very friendly and attentive” -Jesus, Staffmark Associate

Bring your hustle, bring your fire. This job won’t wait.

Join a Team That Works for You

At Staffmark, we’re more than just a staffing company—we’re your career partner. As part of RGF Staffing and Recruit Group, an HR powerhouse behind big names like Indeed and Glassdoor, we’ve got the muscle and the know-how to get you where you want to go.

With more than half a century of experience and a track record of putting hundreds of thousands of people to work every year, we’ve got your back. Whether you’re looking to level up, switch gears, or just get to work fast, we make it happen.

Join us and experience the advantage of working with a trusted name in recruiting—because your success is our success.

Benefits

401k
Dental
Vision
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How this job compares in Riverside, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $27/hr, this posting comes in about 20% below the $33/hr median for welding jobs across California, where the middle half runs $27–$43/hr across 327 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 24% 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.

The local market in Riverside, CA

Riverside, CA is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across California as a whole we're tracking 432 other active welding openings from 205 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across California.

Staffmark currently has 3 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 (28), Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (18), and Honeywell Aerospace (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 Santa Ana at $48/hr, Long Beach at $43/hr, and El Segundo at $43/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for Flux-Core. Flux-cored (FCAW) runs a hollow wire filled with flux, combining MIG-like deposition rates with the outdoor tolerance of stick. It is the workhorse on heavy structural steel and shipbuilding, where thick sections and long welds reward speed.

See all robotic welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Robotic Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.