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Overview

The Welder position involves working on U.S. Naval Ships in shipyards and drydocks, performing welding tasks in varying temperatures. The role requires a high school diploma and at least one year of related experience, with a focus on safety and adherence to specifications.

Responsibilities

  • Applies appropriate welding processes to join, surface, fabricate, or repair parts of metal or other materials.
  • Works from blueprints, engineering sketches, charts, or work orders.
  • Lays out and marks points on parts or subassemblies using rule, square, scribe, or templates.
  • Uses measuring instruments and hand tools to position pieces that require welding into jigs and fixtures.
  • May inspect completed work for conformance to specifications.
  • Performs all work in accordance with established safety procedures.
  • Participates in special projects as required.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma/GED
  • 1+ years of related experience
  • Blueprints, Welding, Welding Procedures skills
  • US Citizenship required

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
  • Travel Required: 10-25%
  • Telecommuting Options: Onsite
  • Work Location: USA WA Seattle

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in Seattle, WA

Pay in context

At roughly $30/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 33% 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 Seattle, WA

Seattle, WA currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 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 Seattle, 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.

Similar openings near Seattle, WA

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.