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Overview

L3Harris is seeking multiple Senior Specialist, Manufacturing Engineers to join their team in Canoga Park, CA, focusing on mechanical component manufacture assembly and integration into rocket engine and power systems products. The company emphasizes a commitment to customer missions and professional growth in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

  • Manage processes in accordance with Lean methodology including process certification and improvement methods.
  • Develop and implement manufacturing and assembly process improvements.
  • Provide welding support by developing and implementing welding processes for complex configurations.
  • Utilize engineering and business software to monitor design configuration updates and incorporate necessary changes.
  • Determine complex design geometric dimensioning and tolerancing for machining and measuring methods.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience, or Graduate Degree with minimum 4 years of prior related experience, or minimum of 10 years of prior related experience in lieu of a degree.
  • Ability to obtain a US Secret level security clearance.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Job Location: Canoga Park, CA
  • Job Schedule: 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off.
  • A small amount of travel may be required depending on actual assignment.

Benefits

Health Insurance
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Los Angeles, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $66/hr, this posting sits about 50% above the $44/hr median for welding jobs in Los Angeles, CA — toward the top of a $36–$67/hr middle band drawn from 51 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 71% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Los Angeles, CA

We're tracking 87 other active welding openings in Los Angeles, CA right now, from 50 different employers. 19 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 Los Angeles, or widen the search to California.

L3Harris Technologies currently has 5 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. Los Angeles 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. Senior Specialist, Manufacturing Engineer (Assembly/Welding/Machining) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.