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Overview

Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is seeking experienced welders with a minimum of 10 years of hands-on welding work experience. The company is the largest industrial employer in Virginia and specializes in the design, construction, and refueling of U.S. Navy nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines.

Responsibilities

  • Perform structural and/or pipe welds in all phases of ship construction.
  • Use a wide range of welding filler metals and processes.
  • Conduct tack, fillet, and full penetration welding on steel foundations and structural and pipe joints.
  • Satisfy all nondestructive tests requirements.
  • Receive additional training including certified visual inspection and troubleshooting minor welding equipment problems.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 10 years welding experience, with 1.5 years of experience welding for Newport News Shipbuilding.
  • Ability to take measurements or willingness to learn.
  • Ability to work assigned shift as production needs.
  • Ability to work at extreme heights or in small confined spaces.
  • Ability to kneel, squat, crawl, bend, stoop, and climb.
  • Ability to lift 40 lbs and pass a respirator fit test.
  • Ability to work indoors/outdoors year round in all weather conditions.
  • Ability to pass Physical Agility Test.
  • Ability to perform overhead work.
  • Willingness to work overtime as needed.
  • Willingness to undergo a background investigation and drug screen.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Relocation assistance will be available.
  • Multiple shifts available.
  • No telework opportunity.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in Newport News, VA

Pay in context

At roughly $41/hr, this posting sits about 31% above the $31/hr median for welding jobs in Newport News, VA — toward the top of a $29–$41/hr middle band drawn from 8 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 63% 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 Newport News, VA

We're tracking 15 other active welding openings in Newport News, VA right now, from 6 different employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Virginia as a whole we're tracking 189 other active welding openings from 110 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Newport News, or widen the search to Virginia.

Newport News Shipbuilding, A Division of HII currently has 4 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 West Fraser (14), HII (9), and Colonna's Shipyard (8). 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, Verona at $33/hr, and Norfolk at $32/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/STRUCTURE EXPERIENCED - 10+ YEARS REQUIRED figures were last recalculated when this page was built.