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Overview

Kokosing is one of America's 50 largest General Contractors, offering a range of construction services including marine construction. They are seeking certified Welders in Baltimore, MD and Hopewell, VA to fabricate, join, and repair equipment and structures using various welding techniques.

Responsibilities

  • Must be able to work while tied off to fall protection.
  • Skilled in use of necessary hand and power tools.
  • Designs, fabricates, joins, and/or repairs equipment, fixtures and various types of metal objects and structures using oxygen-acetylene, electric arc, MIG and TIG welding techniques.
  • Operates drill presses, power saws, grinders, metal lathes and a variety of welding equipment and hand tools.
  • Analyzes plans, drawings, work samples, specifications, and work orders to determine work requirements.

Requirements

  • Must have or able to pass AWS D1.1 FCAW, preferred AWS D1.5 SMAW.
  • AWS certified.
  • D1.5(3G & 4G) needed for bridge work.
  • D1.1 needed for all other structural welding.
  • Driver's license and good driving record - Class B CDL preferred.
  • Merchant Marine and Able-Bodied Seaman credentials preferred.
  • Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) preferred.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • The work environment includes high, precarious places and outside weather conditions.
  • The employee is regularly exposed to high noise levels and occasionally to toxic or caustic chemicals.
  • The employee must occasionally lift/move up to 50 pounds.

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $32/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Virginia, whose middle half runs $24–$34/hr across 70 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 66% 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 Colonial Heights, VA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Colonial Heights, VA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Virginia as a whole we're tracking 128 other active welding openings from 70 employers. Browse welding jobs across Virginia.

The most active employers in Virginia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Innovative Refrigeration Systems, Inc. (14), General Dynamics NASSCO (10), and Atlantic Constructors, 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 $38/hr, Norfolk at $30/hr, and Chesapeake at $28/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG, TIG, 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. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • AWS D1.1 — the American Welding Society's Structural Welding Code for steel. It governs almost all building and structural steel work in the US, so a D1.1 qualification is the baseline credential for construction and ironworking.
  • AWS D1.5 — the Bridge Welding Code, jointly published by AWS and AASHTO. It is stricter than D1.1 on fracture toughness and inspection, and is required on most state and federal bridge work.
  • 3G / 4G — plate position tests — 3G is welded vertically, 4G overhead. Together they demonstrate you can hold a puddle against gravity, and they are the common entry qualifications for structural and production shops.

Read straight from this posting's text. Confirm the exact qualification the employer wants before you test — requirements vary by shop even under the same code.

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