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Overview

AdvanSix is a key player in global supply chains, providing essential products across various industries. The Pipefitter/Welder position involves interpreting technical drawings, welding, and fabricating metal components in a fast-paced and innovative environment.

Responsibilities

  • Interpreting technical drawings and recreating piping details in shop and field.
  • Bolting, clamping, and welding metal components of products such as piping systems and structural shapes using arc and arc gas welding equipment.
  • Welding in flat, horizontal, vertical, or overhead positions.
  • Removing, fabricating, and welding fixed equipment repair panels.
  • Performing welding repairs to boiler and exchanger tubes and tube sheets.
  • Selecting type and size of pipe and related materials and equipment according to job specifications.
  • Selecting equipment and planning layouts, assembly, and welding, applying knowledge of geometry and welding techniques.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED.
  • Licensed Journeyman-level pipefitter/welder or completion of state certified apprenticeship program.
  • 5 years industrial experience.
  • 5 years experience in pipefitting and/or welding.
  • Welding experience preferred.
  • Knowledge of tools, principles, methods, and techniques used in pipefitting and welding.
  • Knowledge of OSHA regulations and ability to comply with procedures.
  • Ability to perform minor rigging and signaling of cranes.
  • Ability to operate and maintain grinding equipment.
  • Ability to fabricate and roll plate.
  • Ability to read and interpret structural and isometric drawings.
  • Ability to perform basic math computations.
  • Ability to communicate effectively.
  • Ability to follow oral and written instructions.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Richmond, VA

Pay in context

At roughly $45/hr, this posting sits about 59% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Virginia — toward the top of a $24–$33/hr middle band drawn from 70 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 93% 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 Richmond, VA

We're tracking 12 other active welding openings in Richmond, VA right now, from 9 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 131 other active welding openings from 65 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Richmond, or widen the search to Virginia.

AdvanSix 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 Innovative Refrigeration Systems, Inc. (12), General Dynamics NASSCO (10), and RailWorks (6). 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 $30/hr, and Richmond at $28/hr. Richmond is among them.

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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. Pipefitter / Welder - Hopewell figures were last recalculated when this page was built.