Welder
Location
Newport News, VA
Wage
$20 – $41/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 23, 2026
Location
Newport News, VA
Wage
$20 – $41/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 23, 2026
ARMADA INC. is seeking a Welder responsible for welding steel, aluminum, and stainless-steel materials using various processes. The position requires adherence to safety and quality standards while working in a full-time capacity.
At roughly $31/hr, this posting comes in about 20% below the $38/hr median for welding jobs in Newport News, VA, where the middle half runs $29–$41/hr across 8 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 38% 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 15 other active welding openings in Newport News, VA right now, from 6 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 141 other active welding openings from 75 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.
IMIA, LLC 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 General Dynamics NASSCO (11), Mission Technologies, a division of HII (7), and Colonna's Shipyard (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 $38/hr, Norfolk at $32/hr, and Chesapeake at $28/hr. Newport News is among them.
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.