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Overview

SpaceX is actively developing technologies to enable human life on Mars. The Metal Spinning Technician (COPV) position involves various machining tasks and requires a high school diploma or equivalent along with relevant experience.

Responsibilities

  • Drill, ream, and countersink full-size holes in parts/assemblies to meet specified dimensional requirements.
  • Deburr holes using deburring tools and files to prepare for installation of fasteners, clamps, and positioners.
  • Assemble and disassemble tools in accordance with process specifications.
  • Perform metal blending to achieve close tolerance surface finishes.
  • Move, mount, configure, and setup work pieces to meet machine requirements prior to machining, spin forming, or heat treating.
  • Run machinery and equipment to perform tasks including CNC machining, spin forming, and heat treating.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalency certificate.
  • 1+ years of structural assembly, machine operation, surface blending, or hand tool usage OR a certificate from an accredited trade school/program.
  • Prior experience working with large moveable structures, machines, or parts requiring the use of cranes, forklifts, jacks, or stationary lifts.
  • Knowledge of large machining operations, precision assembly operations, and/or close tolerance equipment.
  • Heat treating experience (artificial aging, solution heat treating, and/or annealing).
  • Lifting and rigging experience/forklift operation.
  • Able to generate charts, graphs, pivot tables, slicers, and reports from a dataset and explain trends and anomalies.
  • Experience utilizing different root cause analysis methods such as 5 why's, fishbone, and Pareto analysis.
  • Able to perform basic arithmetic calculations accurately.
  • Able to read and interpret engineering drawings, blueprints, and specifications.
  • Experience with drilling, reaming, honing, and countersinking straight and close tolerance holes.
  • Experience using various types of hand tools and/or hand-held power tools, floor-mounted power tools, and precision measuring tools on structural materials.
  • Able to adapt to constantly changing work assignments and fast-paced work environment.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Must be willing to work all shifts, overtime, and/or weekends as needed.
  • Must be able to work one of the following shifts: Monday to Friday, 5AM - 3:30PM or Monday to Friday, 3PM - 1:30AM.
  • Ability and willingness to lift up to 25 lbs. unassisted.
  • Ability and willingness to wear required personal protective equipment as defined by SpaceX.
  • Willing and able to tolerate loud noise levels, heat, odors, and lubricant remnants.

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $31/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $31/hr median for welding jobs in Hawthorne, CA, whose middle half runs $31–$60/hr across 37 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 5% 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 Hawthorne, CA

We're tracking 37 other active welding openings in Hawthorne, CA right now, from 4 different employers. 8 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 486 other active welding openings from 234 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Hawthorne, or widen the search to California.

SpaceX currently has 34 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 (34), 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. Metal Spinning Technician (COPV) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.