Assembler
Location
South Gate, CA
Wage
$24 – $28/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 30, 2026
Location
South Gate, CA
Wage
$24 – $28/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 30, 2026
Jobot is seeking a highly skilled Electromechanical Assembler to join their dynamic engineering team in the Aerospace industry. The role involves assembling, testing, and troubleshooting complex electromechanical assemblies.
At roughly $26/hr, this posting comes in about 26% below the $35/hr median for welding jobs across California, where the middle half runs $29–$45/hr across 365 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 16% 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.
South Gate, CA currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 1 employer. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 486 other active welding openings from 234 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in South Gate, or widen the search to California.
Jobot currently has 11 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 (35), Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (17), and Relativity Space (14). 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, El Segundo at $48/hr, and Los Angeles at $44/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. Assembler figures were last recalculated when this page was built.