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Overview

Modern Weld + Design is a small business in Santa Maria, CA, focused on providing outstanding service to customers in a rewarding, fast-paced, and safe work environment with growth opportunities.

Responsibilities

  • Perform welding and fabrication tasks according to blueprints and specifications.
  • Use various tools and equipment to cut, shape, and assemble metal components.
  • Operate welding machines.
  • Conduct quality inspections to ensure finished products meet standards.
  • Collaborate with team members to complete projects on time and within budget.
  • Follow safety protocols and maintain a clean and organized work area.
  • Proficient in welding techniques such as Dual Shield, MIG, TIG, and stick welding.
  • Ability to read and interpret blueprints and technical drawings.
  • Familiarity with different types of metals and their properties.
  • Strong knowledge of fabrication tools and equipment.

Requirements

  • Excellent attention to detail and precision in workmanship.
  • Ability to work independently or as part of a team.
  • Physical stamina to perform tasks that require lifting, bending, and standing for extended periods.
  • Welding experience.
  • Rigging experience.
  • Blueprint reading skills.
  • Assembly skills.
  • Tubing bending skills.
  • Saw cutting skills.
  • Strong knowledge in fabrication equipment including Ironworker, bandsaw, suitcase welders, engine driven welders, shop mig machines, tig machines, and drill press.

Benefits

  • Dental
  • Health Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Vision

Additional Information

  • Job Type: Full-time
  • Pay: From $30.00 per hour
  • Expected hours: 40.0 per week
  • Work Location: In person

Benefits

Dental
Health Insurance
Life Insurance
Vision
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How this job compares in Santa Maria, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $29/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across California, whose middle half runs $25–$36/hr across 53 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 51% 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 Santa Maria, CA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Santa Maria, 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 559 other active welding openings from 266 employers. Browse welding jobs across 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.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG, TIG, and Stick work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

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