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Overview

The Welder position involves working on U.S. Naval Ships in shipyards and drydocks, performing welding tasks in varying temperatures. The role requires US citizenship and offers opportunities for professional growth within GDIT, a global technology and professional services company.

Responsibilities

  • Applies appropriate welding processes to join, surface, fabricate, or repair parts of metal or other materials that require welding.
  • Works from blueprints, engineering sketches, charts, or work orders.
  • Lays out and marks points on parts or subassemblies using rule, square, scribe or templates.
  • Uses measuring instruments and hand tools to position pieces that require welding into jigs, holding fixtures, guides, and steps.
  • May inspect completed work for conformance to specifications.
  • Performs all work in accordance with established safety procedures.
  • Participates in special projects, as required.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma/GED
  • 1+ years of related experience
  • Skills in Blueprints, Welding, and Welding Procedures
  • US Citizenship required
  • Certifications in MIG, Flux core, and Stick welding preferred

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
  • Travel Required: 10-25%
  • Location: USA VA Norfolk
  • Onsite telecommuting options available

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in Norfolk, VA

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $32/hr median for welding jobs in Norfolk, VA, whose middle half runs $29–$35/hr across 22 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 36% 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 40 other active welding openings in Norfolk, VA right now, from 16 different employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Virginia as a whole we're tracking 147 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 Norfolk, or widen the search to Virginia.

General Dynamics Information Technology currently has 2 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 General Dynamics NASSCO (12), Colonna's Shipyard (7), and Innovative Refrigeration Systems, Inc. (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, Norfolk at $32/hr, and Chesapeake at $28/hr. Norfolk is among them.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG, Stick, and Flux-Core work. 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. Stick (SMAW) burns a flux-coated consumable rod and needs no shielding gas, so it works in wind, rain, and on dirty or rusted steel. That tolerance for bad conditions keeps it the default for field, structural, and repair work.

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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. Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.