Fabricator
Location
Portsmouth, VA
Wage
$25 – $45/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 12, 2026
Location
Portsmouth, VA
Wage
$25 – $45/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 12, 2026
The Fabricator position at ARMADA INC. involves the fabrication, assembly, and erection of steel structures using various tools and equipment. The role requires a strong understanding of technical specifications and safe work practices while working in shipyards and customer facilities.
At roughly $35/hr, this posting sits about 21% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Virginia — toward the top of a $26–$36/hr middle band drawn from 112 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 73% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
Portsmouth, VA currently has 7 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 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 117 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Portsmouth, or widen the search to Virginia.
The most active employers in Virginia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are HII (6), Colonna's Shipyard (6), and Mission Technologies, a division of HII (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 $41/hr, and Norfolk at $32/hr. Portsmouth is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.