Job Description

Overview

Join a top leading company in the aerospace industry as a Maintenance Technician. The organization is a well-established global manufacturer specializing in highly engineered components for the aerospace and defense industries, offering a stable environment with opportunities for technical skill development.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoot, repair, and maintain industrial machinery, equipment, and production systems.
  • Repair and rebuild machines and mechanical assemblies to proper operating condition.
  • Diagnose mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and power transmission issues.
  • Perform preventive, predictive, and unscheduled maintenance.
  • Help minimize equipment downtime and improve overall equipment reliability.
  • Fabricate, weld, or machine replacement parts as needed.
  • Read and interpret mechanical drawings, blueprints, specifications, and procedures.
  • Work with production, engineering, and other departments to resolve equipment issues.
  • Maintain accurate maintenance records and assist with ordering replacement and spare parts.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent.
  • 5+ years of industrial maintenance experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
  • Strong mechanical troubleshooting and repair skills.
  • Knowledge of pneumatics, hydraulics, power transmission, and mechanical systems.
  • Ability to fabricate, weld, or machine parts as needed.
  • Ability to use measuring tools such as micrometers, calipers, dial indicators, and torque wrenches.
  • Ability to perform basic shop math and calculate equipment setups and dimensions.
  • Strong mechanical aptitude with experience working on close-tolerance machinery.
  • Safety-minded, quality-focused, and able to work independently.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Pension Plan

Additional Information

  • 1st or 2nd shift
  • Fully on-site

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
Pension Plan

How this job compares in Brea, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $36/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $35/hr median for welding jobs across California, whose middle half runs $29–$45/hr across 365 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 53% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Brea, CA

Brea, CA currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. 4 of them were 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 Brea, 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.

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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 Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.