Job Description

Overview

The Welder/Repairperson at CalPortland is responsible for performing tack and finish welds on fabricated steel components or metal parts according to blueprints while ensuring safe work and environmental compliance practices. This position operates on a 12-hour rotating shift schedule, including both days and nights.

Responsibilities

  • Exhibit and maintain safe work and environmental compliance practices.
  • Perform fabrication, construction, installation, maintenance, repair, modification, and rework of machinery and structures per blueprints and instructions.
  • Diagnose failures and breakdowns of machinery and equipment; modify, rebuild, or repair as needed.
  • Fabricate frames and component parts from various materials; perform welding, brazing, and cutting.
  • Perform layout work from blueprints and sketches according to established shop practices.
  • Check own work for dimensions, alignment, quality, safety, and specifications.
  • Set up and use rigging and cribbing as required.
  • Manage tools and equipment, ensuring they are returned to designated areas and work areas are kept clean.
  • Perform duties of Dust Collector and Luber.
  • Conduct electrical and electronic maintenance and repair as needed.
  • Perform mobile equipment maintenance as required.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED.
  • Familiarity with computers.
  • Ability to read blueprints.
  • Ability to communicate in English (read, write, and verbally).
  • Knowledge of hazards associated with responsibilities.
  • Ability to use proper Personal Protective Equipment.
  • Ability to work in environments with heat, dust, vibration, heights, and confined spaces.
  • Physical ability to sit, stand, stoop, and bend for extended periods.
  • Ability to lift and carry items up to 70 lbs.
  • Ability to walk long distances and climb ladders and stairs.
  • Ability to see and hear safety indicators and warnings.
  • Ability to work in all weather conditions.
  • Exposure to noise requiring hearing protection.
  • Exposure to cement, clay, limestone, and various chemicals.
  • Preferred knowledge of equipment used in cement manufacturing.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Retirement Program

Additional Information

  • 12-hour rotating shift schedule (days/nights).
  • Successful candidates must submit to a post-offer pre-employment physical examination, drug/alcohol screen, and background check.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Disability
Employee Assistance Program
Retirement Program

How this job compares in Oro Grande, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $39/hr, this posting sits about 15% above the $34/hr median for welding jobs across California — toward the top of a $28–$44/hr middle band drawn from 428 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 65% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Oro Grande, CA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Oro Grande, 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 565 other active welding openings from 259 employers. Browse welding jobs across California.

CalPortland 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), Relativity Space (21), and Honeywell Aerospace (17). 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 Long Beach at $49/hr, Santa Ana at $48/hr, and Los Angeles at $43/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Oro Grande, CA

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder/Repairperson figures were last recalculated when this page was built.