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Overview

Craft and Technical Solutions is an established Marine and Industrial Staffing Company with offices nationwide, currently seeking Structural Welders in Newport News, VA. They offer $120/day per diem for qualified applicants.

Responsibilities

  • Perform welds using flux core, stick, and mig pulse processes.
  • Use a heat oxygen/propane heating torch.

Requirements

  • Complete air carbon arc gouging.
  • Properly use fillet and butt gauges.
  • Thorough knowledge of various metals characteristics and qualities.
  • Understand the correct welding processes required and the effects of welding on the material.
  • Follow OSHA safety regulations.
  • Maintain welding equipment and keep the work area clean and organized.
  • Minimum 10 years of naval/commercial pulse welding experience.
  • Successfully pass several tests over a three-week period.
  • Familiar with OSHA regulations relative to the shipbuilding industry.
  • Pass a drug screen and background check.
  • Comfortable with heights and in confined spaces.
  • Lift 50lbs without assistance.
  • Understand the layout of the ship and compartment identification.
  • Must be a US citizen.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Voluntary Life/Voluntary AD&D
  • Short-Term Disability
  • Long-Term Disability
  • Hospital Indemnity
  • Accident
  • Critical Illness
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Safety and responsible work practices are of paramount importance at CTS.
  • Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
  • An online application is required to be considered for this position.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Voluntary Life/Voluntary AD&D
Short-Term Disability
Long-Term Disability
Hospital Indemnity
Accident
Critical Illness
401k
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How this job compares in Jacksonville, FL

Pay in context

At roughly $45/hr, this posting sits about 45% above the $31/hr median for welding jobs in Jacksonville, FL — toward the top of a $25–$32/hr middle band drawn from 17 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 82% 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.

The local market in Jacksonville, FL

We're tracking 28 other active welding openings in Jacksonville, FL right now, from 17 different employers. 5 of them were added in the last week. Across Florida as a whole we're tracking 259 other active welding openings from 149 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Jacksonville, or widen the search to Florida.

Craft and Technical Solutions, LLC currently has 1 other opening live in Florida, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Florida at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Miami, FL (16), Welding Shop in Tampa, FL (14), and Honeywell Technologies (8). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Florida, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Jacksonville at $31/hr, Cape Canaveral at $29/hr, and Orlando at $29/hr. Jacksonville 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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