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Overview

The Maintenance Specialist IV is responsible for the repair and preventative maintenance of campus buildings and surrounding areas, ensuring a high level of pride in maintaining the campus for students undergoing technical training. The ideal candidate should have proficiency in various repair and construction trades.

Responsibilities

  • Repair and maintain structure of establishment by performing skilled trade work.
  • Ensure all equipment is functioning properly.
  • Perform and log safety and preventative maintenance tasks according to schedule.
  • Notify management concerning the need for major repairs.
  • Assist in training other maintenance personnel in basic construction and maintenance skills.
  • Set up classrooms and auditoriums for campus functions.
  • Adhere to standard safety practices including wearing appropriate PPE.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • High School diploma or GED.
  • 3-5 years of experience in building maintenance.
  • Forklift certification required.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with essential deadlines.
  • Good communication, planning, organization, and judgment skills.
  • Intermediate to advanced level construction, painting, plumbing, electrical, and welding skills.
  • Ability to safely and properly use hand tools.
  • Experience with electrical test equipment and welding equipment is a plus.

Additional Information

  • Work is performed indoors in a climate-controlled environment and outdoors in varying weather conditions.
  • Regular business hours with occasional overtime required.
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How this job compares in Long Beach, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $28/hr, this posting comes in about 43% below the $49/hr median for welding jobs in Long Beach, CA, where the middle half runs $34–$63/hr across 51 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 6% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Long Beach, CA

We're tracking 62 other active welding openings in Long Beach, CA right now, from 24 different employers. 31 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 565 other active welding openings from 259 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Long Beach, or widen the search to California.

Universal Technical Institute, Inc. 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. Long Beach is among them.

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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. Maintenance Specialist IV figures were last recalculated when this page was built.