Pipefitter
Location
Chester, VA
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on August 20, 2026
Location
Chester, VA
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on August 20, 2026
CTR Group is seeking Pipefitters / Road Techs for an Industrial Shutdown at facilities in the Hopewell, VA area.5 immediate openings and urgently hiring! Pay Rate: $36 per hour Plus $140 Per Diem for Non-Local Candidates. Lots of Overtime Available! This is an industrial shutdown assignment from two months to the rest of the year.Pipefitters will be working 50 - 70 hours per week SUMMARY:We are seeking seasoned Industrial Journeyman Pipefitters / Road Techs who will be working 50 - 70 hours per week at various job sites, several of which are in Hopewell.Pipefitters must be seasoned Journeymen. REQUIREMENTS:Must have Industrial Pipefitting experience.Seeking experienced industrial Pipefitter with minimum 4 years of experience.Industrial Shutdown experience strongly preferred.Must be a seasoned Journeyman PipefitterAble to travel to various work sites in the Hopewell area. CTR Group has been a leader in its industry for over 35 years and is rated highly on Google, Indeed and Facebook for being a great company to work for. If you enjoy being a part of a great team, apply today and check out our website for more information. CTR Group is an equal employment opportunity employer. Candidates are selected based on qualifications and defined requirements of the job, not on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin. age. or any other protected status. Further, CTR Group encourages United States' Veterans and persons with disabilities to apply for positions for which they are qualified.
This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, pipefitter jobs across Virginia currently run a median of $38/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $37–$44/hr across 12 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.
Chester, VA currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Virginia as a whole we're tracking 172 other active welding openings from 116 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Chester, or widen the search to Virginia.
CTR Corporation (dba CTR Group) 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 General Dynamics NASSCO (6), HII (6), and Colonna's Shipyard (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 $41/hr, Portsmouth at $37/hr, and Norfolk at $32/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Pipefitter figures were last recalculated when this page was built.