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Overview

Our client, a well-established manufacturing company in the Inland Empire, is looking to add an experienced Maintenance Welder to their team. The Welder will keep the plant's melting, casting, and scrap-processing operations running by fabricating, repairing, and maintaining plant equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Weld, cut, and fabricate steel, stainless, and aluminum components using SMAW, GMAW, FCAW, and GTAW.
  • Repair and rebuild furnace doors, ladles, launders, skim tools, casting tables, molds, and dross-handling equipment.
  • Fabricate and repair scrap bins, hoppers, chutes, guards, platforms, handrails, and structural supports.
  • Read and interpret blueprints, shop drawings, and weld symbols; take field measurements and lay out work.
  • Use oxy-fuel and plasma cutting, carbon-arc gouging, grinders, drill presses, saws, and benders.
  • Respond to equipment breakdowns quickly to minimize production downtime.
  • Support preventive maintenance and work alongside mechanics and electricians on plant projects.
  • Inspect welds for quality and correct defects; keep work to drawing tolerances and company standards.
  • Follow hot-work permits, lockout/tagout, confined-space, and fall-protection procedures.
  • Keep tools, welding equipment, and work areas clean and organized; record work in the maintenance system.
  • Take part in continuous improvement and ISO 9001 quality practices.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED.
  • 3+ years of welding and fabrication experience in an industrial, manufacturing, or foundry setting.
  • Proficiency in SMAW, GMAW, and FCAW on carbon steel in all positions.
  • Ability to read blueprints and weld symbols and use measuring tools accurately.
  • Working knowledge of torch and plasma cutting and carbon-arc gouging.
  • Strong safety mindset and willingness to follow hot-work and lockout/tagout procedures.
  • Willingness to work rotating shifts, overtime, weekends, and on-call for breakdowns.
  • AWS D1.1 certification preferred; AWS D1.2 certification is a plus.
  • GTAW experience on aluminum and stainless steel preferred.
  • Experience in aluminum melting, casting, metal recycling, or another heavy-industrial plant preferred.
  • Basic mechanical maintenance skills (rigging, hydraulics, pneumatics) preferred.
  • Forklift and overhead-crane experience or certification preferred.
  • Bilingual English/Spanish preferred.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • Life Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

This is a hands-on role in an active foundry where safety, quality, and fast turnaround on breakdowns matter every shift.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
Life Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in Fontana, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $23/hr, this posting comes in about 36% 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 7% 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 Fontana, CA

Fontana, CA currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 employers. 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 Fontana, 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.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG, TIG, Stick, and Flux-Core work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • AWS D1.1 — the American Welding Society's Structural Welding Code for steel. It governs almost all building and structural steel work in the US, so a D1.1 qualification is the baseline credential for construction and ironworking.

Read straight from this posting's text. Confirm the exact qualification the employer wants before you test — requirements vary by shop even under the same code.

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