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Overview

DRiV is a leading designer, manufacturer, and marketer of automotive products with around 78,000 team members across more than 300 sites globally. The Hand Welder Pipe 2nd position involves laying out, fitting, and welding components to assemble mufflers, pipes, and catalytic converters efficiently to meet production schedules.

Responsibilities

  • Selects equipment and plans layout, assembly, and welding from blueprints and route cards.
  • Positions, aligns, and fits components according to specifications.
  • Bolts, clamps, and tack-welds parts to secure them for welding.
  • Sets up equipment and welds parts using various welding techniques.
  • Repairs products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts.
  • Inspects parts to ensure they meet quality standards and follows quality procedures.
  • Completes annual reviews of OSHA required training classes.
  • Reports safety malfunctions and near hits or injuries to the supervisor.
  • Maintains a high standard of housekeeping in the department.
  • Completes necessary paperwork such as job cards and production tickets.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Previous experience as a MIG welder preferred.
  • Must complete Walker in-house certification process.
  • Ability to read and comprehend blueprints and written documents.
  • Ability to write simple correspondence.
  • Ability to interact cooperatively with supervision and co-workers.
  • Ability to perform basic mathematical operations.
  • Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions.
  • Ability to interpret blueprint drawings for welding tasks.
  • Welding Certification may be required.
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How this job compares in Harrisonburg, VA

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, pipe welder jobs across Virginia currently run a median of $32/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $30–$36/hr across 10 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Harrisonburg, VA

Harrisonburg, VA currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 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 194 other active welding openings from 114 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Harrisonburg, or widen the search to Virginia.

DRiV currently has 1 other opening 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 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.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG. 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.

See all pipe welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

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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. Hand Welder Pipe 2nd figures were last recalculated when this page was built.