Engineering Technician (Level 3/4)
Location
Redondo Beach, CA
Wage
$66,600 – $111,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 10, 2026
Location
Redondo Beach, CA
Wage
$66,600 – $111,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 10, 2026
At Northrop Grumman, employees have opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact lives globally. The company seeks individuals with bold ideas and a pioneering spirit to join their innovative team.
At roughly $43/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $40/hr median for welding jobs in Redondo Beach, CA, whose middle half runs $36–$60/hr across 8 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 63% 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.
Redondo Beach, CA currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 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. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Redondo Beach, or widen the search to California.
Northrop Grumman 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), 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. Engineering Technician (Level 3/4) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.