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Overview

HII's Mission Technologies Division is seeking shipboard Marine Welders for fleet modernization in the Seattle and Bremerton, WA areas. The role involves supporting the U.S. Navy and national defense through various welding tasks on active class submarines and surface ships.

Responsibilities

  • Installs, operates, maintains, repairs and modifies equipment.
  • Performs maintenance and technical support on products at customer and field locations.
  • Analyzes and evaluates products and related performance.
  • Troubleshoots and diagnoses malfunctions to eliminate problems quickly.
  • Installs, upgrades and removes products ensuring engineering field changes.
  • Maintains effective customer communications and relations.
  • May provide onsite training of customer support personnel.
  • Applies understanding of production and processes to assignments.
  • Performs a variety of complicated tasks.
  • May assist in the development and use of technical documents.

Requirements

  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.
  • Must have formal weld and/or brazing training and/or combination piping and plate welding qualifications.
  • Must be able to work from blueprints, engineering sketches, charts or work orders.
  • Must provide own hand tools as designated per trades specialty.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen.
  • High School education, or Trade School or equivalent, and 2 years of related experience.
  • Prefer technical/professional certifications.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Required travel: 51 - 75%.
  • Per Diem available based on location when on travel.
  • Travel and lodging expenses are covered by the company.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
Tuition Reimbursement
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How this job compares in Bremerton, WA

Pay in context

At roughly $33/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $33/hr median for welding jobs across Washington, whose middle half runs $28–$41/hr across 66 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 55% 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 Bremerton, WA

Bremerton, WA currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Washington as a whole we're tracking 90 other active welding openings from 55 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Bremerton, or widen the search to Washington.

The most active employers in Washington at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Seattle, WA (14), Loenbro (5), and Parker Hannifin (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Washington, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Arlington at $55/hr and Redmond at $38/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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