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Overview

Vigor Marine Group is an innovative partner in marine maintenance and modernization, with a national presence and a commitment to employee pride and community contributions. The Pipefitter Journey 1 position involves performing various pipe system tasks with minimal supervision, ensuring safety and quality standards.

Responsibilities

  • Performs work as an individual or as part of a multi-craft work crew.
  • Complies with craft and shipyard safety and environmental measures.
  • Recognizes and traces various pipe systems aboard vessels.
  • Disassembles, assembles, and repairs shipboard systems.
  • Reads blueprints to identify locations of various pipe systems.
  • Operates pipe threading machine, pipe bender, and Oakey bevelers.
  • Lays out, targets, and fabricates various pipe to quality assurance standards.
  • Tests and operates hydro pumps up to 5,000 psi.
  • Determines sizes and schedules of pipes and fittings.
  • Sets up and operates flushing machine.
  • Uses a tape measure.
  • Completes sustained work at various heights, including up to 100 feet.
  • Cares for and safely uses hand and power tools.
  • Performs rigging related to pipe and valve systems.
  • Makes competent weldments.
  • Performs similar work in all areas of the Yard as needed.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED preferred.
  • 5 years relevant work experience.
  • Ability to communicate effectively and work independently or in a group.
  • Basic math skills including addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication.
  • Ability to read, write, speak, and comprehend English.
  • Some knowledge of several skills with advanced knowledge of one primary skill.
  • Must obtain four-hour fire watch certification within 30 days of hire.
  • HAZWOPER – First Responder Awareness Level certification.

Additional Information

  • This role is with a federally contracted employer and is subject to regulations that restrict employment to US Persons only.
  • Vigor Industrial LLC and its subsidiaries are drug, smoke, and vape-free workplaces.
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How this job compares in Portland, OR

Pay in context

At roughly $39/hr, this posting sits about 34% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs in Portland, OR — toward the top of a $26–$33/hr middle band drawn from 15 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 100% 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 Portland, OR

We're tracking 24 other active welding openings in Portland, OR right now, from 14 different employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Oregon as a whole we're tracking 71 other active welding openings from 46 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Portland, or widen the search to Oregon.

Vigor Marine Group currently has 1 other opening live in Oregon, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Oregon at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Portland, OR (12), AAON, Inc. (4), and Sulzer (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Oregon, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Redmond at $29/hr and Portland at $29/hr. Portland is among them.

Similar openings near Portland, OR

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Pipefitter Journey 1 - Day Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.