Experienced Maintenance Machinist
Location
El Segundo, CA
Wage
$50.24/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 7, 2026
Location
El Segundo, CA
Wage
$50.24/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 7, 2026
Manufacturing Operations is seeking an Experienced Maintenance Machinist for the El Segundo, California Refinery. This role involves performing maintenance, repair, troubleshooting, and construction work in both field and shop settings, requiring journey-level skills and collaboration with various teams.
At roughly $50/hr, this posting sits about 17% above the $43/hr median for welding jobs in El Segundo, CA — toward the top of a $38–$62/hr middle band drawn from 22 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 55% 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.
We're tracking 26 other active welding openings in El Segundo, CA right now, from 8 different employers. 21 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 586 other active welding openings from 267 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in El Segundo, or widen the search to California.
Chevron currently has 2 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 (37), Relativity Space (22), and Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (18). 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 $65/hr, Pasadena at $61/hr, and Santa Ana at $48/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. Experienced Maintenance Machinist figures were last recalculated when this page was built.