HVAC - Sheet Metal Workers and Service Technicians
Location
Parkersburg, WV
Wage
$21.65 – $35.87/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 25, 2026
Location
Parkersburg, WV
Wage
$21.65 – $35.87/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 25, 2026
Sheet Metal Workers, Local 33, now the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, Local 33 (SMART) is looking for qualified HVAC Installers and Service Techs in your area. Our contractors need employees and we are looking for people who want to get paid what they are worth.
At roughly $29/hr, this posting comes in about 15% below the $34/hr median for welding jobs across West Virginia, where the middle half runs $26–$39/hr across 10 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 30% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Parkersburg, WV, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across West Virginia as a whole we're tracking 15 other active welding openings from 12 employers. Browse welding jobs across West Virginia.
The most active employers in West Virginia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Jennmar (3) and Phillips Tank and Structure - Steel Valley Fabricators (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. HVAC - Sheet Metal Workers and Service Technicians figures were last recalculated when this page was built.