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Overview

PeopleReady Skilled Trades is helping an established industrial contractor hire an experienced Journeyman Pipefitter Working Foreman with strong welding and fabrication experience. This contractor has 28 years of industry experience and primarily works in industrial settings throughout Orange County, Santa Fe Springs, City of Industry, and Ontario.

Responsibilities

  • Perform hands-on journeyman-level pipefitting
  • Process piping and pipe fabrication
  • Fabricate and install pipe supports
  • Build platforms and access areas around valves
  • Perform welding and fabrication
  • Lead and supervise a small crew
  • Maintain a safe, productive jobsite

Requirements

  • 4–6+ years of pipefitting experience
  • Strong welding and fabrication experience
  • Able to supervise a crew of 2–3 employees
  • Must pass a drug test and background check
  • Reliable transportation and strong safety awareness
  • Journeyman-level Pipefitter
  • Approximately 4–6 years of trade experience
  • Strong welding experience
  • Previous lead or foreman experience preferred
  • Must be willing to travel to various job locations
  • Must be eligible to work in the U.S. (E-Verify)

Benefits

  • Company truck
  • Company credit card for gas and approved site purchases
  • Major tools provided in company truck
  • 401(k) after 90 days
  • Paid vacation
  • Safety bonus
  • Christmas bonus

Benefits

Company truck
Company credit card for gas and approved site purchases
Major tools provided in company truck
401(k) after 90 days
Paid vacation
Safety bonus
Christmas bonus
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How this job compares in Irvine, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $40/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $38/hr median for pipefitter jobs across California, whose middle half runs $36–$54/hr across 11 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 55% 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.

The local market in Irvine, CA

Irvine, CA currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 1 employer. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across California as a whole we're tracking 559 other active welding openings from 266 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Irvine, or widen the search to California.

The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (36), Relativity Space (21), and Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (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 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.

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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. Pipefitter Welder Foreman figures were last recalculated when this page was built.