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Job Description

Overview

Tradesmen International is immediately hiring experienced welders for a project located in El Cajon, CA. This is a full time opportunity with a pay range of up to $36/hour based on experience and skill level.

Responsibilities

  • Perform 232 welding using Lincoln Electric Innershield® NR®-232.
  • Engage in structural and miscellaneous steel fabrication installation.
  • Cut, shape, fit, and weld metal pieces such as frames, stairs, guardrails, and structural elements according to project specifications.
  • Improve installation methods and make practical field decisions on-site during assembly.

Requirements

  • Certified welder

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Work requires full PPE and face shield.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in El Cajon, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $36/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $36/hr median for welding jobs across California, whose middle half runs $30–$49/hr across 379 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 49% 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 El Cajon, CA

El Cajon, CA currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 514 other active welding openings from 242 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in El Cajon, or widen the search to California.

Welding Shop in San Diego, CA currently has 3 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 (37), Relativity Space (18), and Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (16). 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 El Segundo at $53/hr, Pasadena at $50/hr, and Long Beach at $49/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. Certified Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.