Welding Quality Control Inspector
Location
Saunders, VA
Wage
$60,000 – $80,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 23, 2026
Location
Saunders, VA
Wage
$60,000 – $80,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 23, 2026
Atlantic Constructors is seeking a qualified Welding Quality Control Inspector with strong hands-on welding inspection experience to support manufacturing operations. The ideal candidate will ensure all products meet applicable codes, specifications, and customer requirements while promoting quality improvement efforts across operations.
At roughly $34/hr, this posting sits about 16% 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 71% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Saunders, VA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Virginia as a whole we're tracking 171 other active welding openings from 118 employers. Browse welding jobs across Virginia.
Atlantic Constructors, Inc. currently has 3 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 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.
Read straight from this posting's text. Confirm the exact qualification the employer wants before you test — requirements vary by shop even under the same code.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welding Quality Control Inspector figures were last recalculated when this page was built.