Braze Set Up - 1st Shift
Location
Compton, CA
Wage
$20 – $22/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 12, 2026
Location
Compton, CA
Wage
$20 – $22/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 12, 2026
Bodycote, the world’s largest provider of thermal processing services, is seeking a Braze Set Up C for their Rancho Dominguez, CA location. This position is safety-sensitive and involves performing essential job functions related to braze treatment under the direction of the Production Manager.
At roughly $21/hr, this posting comes in about 40% 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 5% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Compton, 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 594 other active welding openings from 271 employers. Browse welding jobs across California.
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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Braze Set Up - 1st Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.