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Job Description

Overview

The Mechanical Lab Technician position involves performing mechanical tests using various lab equipment in Cypress, CA. This is a 12-month contract role with a standard Monday to Friday schedule.

Responsibilities

  • Perform mechanical tests using various lab equipment.
  • Set up test apparatus and conduct tests of production assemblies and units following methods, procedures, standards, and sequences.
  • Lay out and assemble units for production equipment according to designs and specifications.
  • Adjust and calibrate systems as needed.
  • Modify equipment by adding, removing, or altering components as defined by predetermined diagrams and sketches.
  • Correct malfunctions by making adjustments or replacing parts or components as directed.
  • Use hand and small power tools, and various measuring and testing devices in performing job duties.
  • Monitor and verify quality in accordance with statistical process or other control procedures.

Additional Information

  • Candidates must work on a W2 basis without any sponsorship.
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How this job compares in Cypress, CA

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across California currently run a median of $34/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $28–$43/hr across 429 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Cypress, CA

Cypress, CA is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across California as a whole we're tracking 565 other active welding openings from 258 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across California.

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.

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