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Job Description

Overview

Classic Collision is seeking an experienced Auto Body Technician to join our fast-paced, customer-focused repair team. In this role, you will perform structural and non-structural collision repairs, panel replacement, bodywork, and fit/finish to manufacturer and insurance standards.

Responsibilities

  • Perform structural and non-structural collision repairs.
  • Conduct panel replacement and bodywork.
  • Ensure fit/finish to manufacturer and insurance standards.
  • Use frame machines, welders, and measuring systems to restore vehicles.
  • Work closely with estimators, painters, and parts teams.
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How this job compares in Norfolk, VA

Pay in context

At roughly $34/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $32/hr median for welding jobs in Norfolk, VA, whose middle half runs $29–$38/hr across 19 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 68% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Norfolk, VA

We're tracking 25 other active welding openings in Norfolk, VA right now, from 16 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 159 other active welding openings from 96 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Norfolk, or widen the search to Virginia.

Classic Collision currently has 3 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 Colonna's Shipyard (8), Mission Technologies, a division of HII (7), and Newport News Shipbuilding, A Division of HII (6). 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 $38/hr, Norfolk at $32/hr, and Virginia Beach at $30/hr. Norfolk is among them.

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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. Auto Body Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.