PIPEFITTER LEADER
Location
Bremerton, WA
Wage
$44.49 – $51.9/hr
Posted on September 28, 2026
Location
Bremerton, WA
Wage
$44.49 – $51.9/hr
Posted on September 28, 2026
The Pipefitter Leader will work in the Production Resources Department of PSNS and IMF, conducting on-the-job training and instructing personnel in pipefitting skills.
At roughly $48/hr, this posting sits about 55% above the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Washington — toward the top of a $28–$36/hr middle band drawn from 66 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 95% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
Bremerton, WA currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Washington as a whole we're tracking 85 other active welding openings from 49 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Bremerton, or widen the search to Washington.
The most active employers in Washington at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Seattle, WA (16), All American Marine (4), and Parker Hannifin (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Washington, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Arlington at $39/hr and Bremerton at $34/hr. Bremerton 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. PIPEFITTER LEADER figures were last recalculated when this page was built.