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Overview

Southern Air, Inc. is a growing employee-owned company with over 75 years of experience, dedicated to employee growth and customer service in the Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina region. The Pipe Welder position involves installation and repair duties in commercial or public buildings.

Responsibilities

  • Perform installation and repair duties in commercial or public buildings.

Requirements

  • Five years experience in the piping/welding field.
  • Ability to read and interpret drawings and P&ID schematics.
  • Must be able to work independently and as a team member.
  • Pipe fitting experience preparing large bore weld pipe.
  • Knowledgeable of all fitting take-outs for screw and weld fittings.
  • Experienced with carbon steel piping, stainless steel piping, stainless steel tubing, PVC, Copper, and weld pipe.
  • Must have essential hand tools expected for trade.
  • Dependable and a team player.
  • Ability to work without direct supervision.
  • Must be able to pass a post-offer pre-employment drug screen and may be required to satisfactorily complete additional background checks.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • 401k
  • ESOP
  • Vision
  • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
  • Supplemental & Dependent Life Insurance
  • Life Insurance & Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D)
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Located at Richmond, VA.
  • May work with or around typical construction materials and chemicals requiring safety data sheet knowledge.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
401k
ESOP
Vision
Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
Supplemental & Dependent Life Insurance
Life Insurance & Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D)
PTO
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How this job compares in Richmond, VA

Pay in context

At roughly $29/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $30/hr median for welding jobs in Richmond, VA, whose middle half runs $23–$37/hr across 9 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 Richmond, VA

We're tracking 14 other active welding openings in Richmond, VA right now, from 12 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 117 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Richmond, 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 $37/hr, and Norfolk at $32/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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