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Job Description

Overview

This National Guard position is for a Welder (Title 32) (Permanent), responsible for performing various welding duties using different processes and tools as part of the VA G4, National Guard.

Responsibilities

  • Perform welding duties using electric, acetylene, and/or inert gas shielded welding processes.
  • Repair, modify, or fabricate metal items using templates, jigs, blueprints, and other guides.
  • Make numerous types of joints on light and heavy equipment such as axles, frames, and gun mounts.
  • Weld or reinforce heavy armor plate.
  • Perform precision welding on jigs, dies, engineering, and automotive equipment.
  • Braise dissimilar metals and flame cut metal to size for fabrication.
  • Utilize basic sheet metal tools and equipment to repair and fabricate various equipment.
  • Read and interpret blueprints and sketches.
  • Lay out, position, and clamp work; select type of rod and size of tip for welding.
  • Determine necessary heat and adjust equipment accordingly.
  • Manually maintain proper speed, flame motion, tip and angle, and position of the welding flame.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.
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How this job compares in Richmond, VA

Pay in context

At roughly $34/hr, this posting sits about 15% above the $30/hr median for welding jobs in Richmond, VA — toward the top of a $29–$37/hr middle band drawn from 9 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 67% 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 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 181 other active welding openings from 107 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 West Fraser (14), Colonna's Shipyard (8), and HII (7). 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 Staunton at $34/hr, Norfolk at $32/hr, and Newport News at $31/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. Welder (Title 32) (Permanent) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.