Maintenance Technician IV - 1st Shift
Location
Fullerton, CA
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 11, 2026
Location
Fullerton, CA
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 11, 2026
The Maintenance Technician IV - 1st Shift is responsible for independently maintaining, troubleshooting, repairing, adjusting, and modifying facility tools, equipment, buildings, and grounds to ensure safe and efficient operations. This position requires extensive experience in maintenance and repair of various systems and equipment.
This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across California currently run a median of $36/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $30–$49/hr across 380 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.
Fullerton, CA currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 514 other active welding openings from 242 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Fullerton, or widen the search to California.
Howmet Aerospace 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), Relativity Space (18), 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 El Segundo at $53/hr, Pasadena at $50/hr, and Long Beach at $49/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. Maintenance Technician IV - 1st Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.