Welder/Repairperson
Location
Oro Grande, CA
Wage
$38.17 – $40.17/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 26, 2026
Location
Oro Grande, CA
Wage
$38.17 – $40.17/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 26, 2026
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.
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.
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.
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.