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Overview

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking an Assembler I to join their global team focused on innovation and building sustainable communities. The role involves assembling and installing various mechanical parts and ensuring their functionality.

Responsibilities

  • Work from written and verbal instructions to lay out, assemble and install prefabricated parts.
  • Prepare mixtures of braze alloys and adhesives for furnace brazing.
  • Perform complete setup for any cell size and operate core fabricating machines.
  • Hand finish machined and other parts to close tolerances.
  • Operate material pouring equipment and processing equipment.
  • Identify materials, parts and assemblies as required.
  • Prepare surfaces of parts and assemblies prior to painting.
  • Operate on-line, computer-aided x-ray equipment.
  • Load, unload and operate fuel control test fixtures.
  • Verify and record data from the testing process.

Requirements

  • High school diploma, GED, or equivalent.
  • Willing to work any shift.
  • Experience using hand tools and/or power tools is preferred.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
  • Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
  • Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Gardena, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting comes in about 14% below the $35/hr median for welding jobs across California, where the middle half runs $28–$45/hr across 448 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 30% 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 Gardena, CA

We're tracking 10 other active welding openings in Gardena, CA right now, from 8 different employers. 5 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 594 other active welding openings from 272 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Gardena, or widen the search to California.

Solar Turbines currently has 1 other opening 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), Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (17), and Honeywell Aerospace (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 Pasadena at $51/hr, Santa Ana at $48/hr, and El Segundo 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. Assembler I figures were last recalculated when this page was built.