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Overview

HII is seeking a Welder to join their Mission Technologies team, which supports the U.S. Navy's Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH) of aircraft carriers. The role involves performing various welding processes on shipboard piping and structural systems to assist with refit and fleet modernization.

Responsibilities

  • Perform welding processes on shipboard piping and structural systems.
  • Manage, oversee, schedule, and assign tasks to multiple jobs.
  • Install piping and structural components utilizing various welding processes.
  • Operate, maintain, repair, and modify equipment.
  • Perform maintenance and technical support on products.
  • Analyze and evaluate products and related performance.
  • Troubleshoot and diagnose malfunctions.
  • Install, upgrade, and remove products ensuring coordinative engineering field change.
  • Maintain effective customer communications and relations.
  • Provide onsite training of customer support personnel.

Requirements

  • High School education, Trade School, or equivalent.
  • 2-6 years of related experience.
  • Technical/professional certifications preferred.
  • Must provide own hand tools as designated per trades specialty.
  • Ability to qualify SMAW & GTAW (Stick/Tig) in carbon and stainless steel welding.
  • Pass general and specific knowledge exam on welder workmanship.
  • Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade.
  • Accurately fit-up, install, and weld structural and piping components.
  • Communicate verbally and electronically, follow detailed instructions, and be self-motivated.
  • Make decisions using sound judgment while complying with policies and regulations.
  • Interpret blueprints, drawings, and/or specifications.
  • Obtain and maintain a DoD secret security clearance.
  • Obtain base access credentials within 60 days of start date.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Required travel: 0 - 10%.
  • Ability to lift, carry, and transport heavy equipment.
  • Work in extreme temperature environments and confined spaces.
  • May require wearing a respirator.
  • Travel may be required within and outside of the continental United States.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Newport News, VA

Pay in context

At roughly $25/hr, this posting comes in about 39% below the $41/hr median for welding jobs in Newport News, VA, where the middle half runs $29–$48/hr across 10 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 0% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Newport News, VA

We're tracking 17 other active welding openings in Newport News, VA right now, from 9 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 171 other active welding openings from 118 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Newport News, or widen the search to Virginia.

Mission Technologies, a division of HII currently has 4 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 HII (6), Colonna's Shipyard (6), and Aerotek (5). 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 $41/hr, Portsmouth at $37/hr, and Norfolk at $32/hr. Newport News is among them.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for TIG and Stick 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. Stick (SMAW) burns a flux-coated consumable rod and needs no shielding gas, so it works in wind, rain, and on dirty or rusted steel. That tolerance for bad conditions keeps it the default for field, structural, and repair work.

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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)- Mastertradesperson 2-29176 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.