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Overview

The Pipe Welder 1st Class position offers a pay rate of $50.00 per hour and is intended for local candidates only. The role involves performing stainless-steel pipe welding and ensuring quality and safety standards are met.

Responsibilities

  • Read and interpret drawings and welding symbols.
  • Perform stainless-steel pipe welding, including restricted open-root welds.
  • Inspect completed welds and correct any quality issues.
  • Follow all safety, quality, and housekeeping procedures.
  • Maintain personal tools and keep the work area clean.
  • Meet production goals and work effectively as part of a team.

Requirements

  • Must successfully pass a lifetime background check.
  • Must complete the stainless-steel portion of the pipe welder test as an evaluation of welding ability.
  • Must successfully complete all required pre-employment and onboarding requirements.
  • Minimum of five years of Pipe Welder 1st Class experience.
  • Previous shipyard or comparable marine pipe welding experience required.
  • Ability to read and understand instructions, drawings, and welding symbols.
  • Ability to perform basic math and take accurate standard and metric measurements.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
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How this job compares in Mobile, AL

Pay in context

At roughly $50/hr, this posting sits about 100% above the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Alabama — toward the top of a $20–$32/hr middle band drawn from 70 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 94% 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.

The local market in Mobile, AL

We're tracking 17 other active welding openings in Mobile, AL right now, from 10 different employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Alabama as a whole we're tracking 131 other active welding openings from 95 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Mobile, or widen the search to Alabama.

The most active employers in Alabama at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Blue Origin (9), ORION (4), and Rheem Manufacturing Company (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Alabama, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Mobile at $48/hr, Birmingham at $25/hr, and Huntsville at $24/hr. Mobile is among them.

Similar openings near Mobile, AL

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 1st Class figures were last recalculated when this page was built.