Welder
Location
Richmond, VA
Wage
$20 – $25/hr
Posted on September 16, 2026
Location
Richmond, VA
Wage
$20 – $25/hr
Posted on September 16, 2026
Old Dominion Brush Company (ODB) is seeking a Welder for its Welding and Fabrication department in Richmond, Virginia. The position involves laying out, fitting, and welding fabricated steel frames and metal parts under moderate to minimal supervision.
At roughly $23/hr, this posting comes in about 22% below the $29/hr median for welding jobs in Richmond, VA, where the middle half runs $25–$30/hr across 10 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 0% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.
We're tracking 14 other active welding openings in Richmond, VA right now, from 11 different employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Virginia as a whole we're tracking 194 other active welding openings from 113 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 HII (10), Colonna's Shipyard (8), and Mission Technologies, a division of 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 Newport News at $34/hr, Verona at $33/hr, and Norfolk at $32/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
This posting calls for MIG and TIG work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.