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Overview

The Welder position is a waterfront shipboard construction and re-modernization role, working within shipyards and drydocks on U.S. Naval Ships. The job involves applying various welding processes and requires at least 1 year of related experience.

Responsibilities

  • Applies appropriate welding processes to join, surface, fabricate, or repair parts of metal or other materials that require welding.
  • 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, holding fixtures, guides, and steps.
  • 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
  • Skills in blueprints, welding, and welding procedures
  • US Citizenship required
  • Required certifications include MIG for aluminum GMAW, Flux core FCAW for carbon steel and stainless, and Stick weld for carbon steel and stainless SMAW
  • Preferred experience in TIG for all metals GTAW, CUNI, and copper/face feed certification in brazing.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

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

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in Norfolk, VA

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $29/hr median for welding jobs in Norfolk, VA, whose middle half runs $24–$32/hr across 11 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 Norfolk, VA

We're tracking 26 other active welding openings in Norfolk, VA right now, from 11 different employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Virginia as a whole we're tracking 131 other active welding openings from 65 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Norfolk, or widen the search to Virginia.

General Dynamics Information Technology currently has 2 other openings live in Virginia, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Virginia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Innovative Refrigeration Systems, Inc. (12), General Dynamics NASSCO (10), and RailWorks (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Virginia, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Newport News at $34/hr, Norfolk at $29/hr, and Richmond at $28/hr. Norfolk is among them.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG, TIG, Stick, and Flux-Core work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

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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. Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.