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Job Description

Overview

CTR Group is seeking A Class (1st Class) Shipfitters in the Newport News, VA area. Travelers are welcome and the position offers a competitive pay rate.

Requirements

  • Must be able to pass a fillet weld test or tack weld test.
  • Must demonstrate an acceptable proficiency and competency for an A-Class Fitters position.
  • Must demonstrate ability to interpret and work from construction drawings, job specifications, instruction manuals, manufacturer’s handbooks, change orders, and contract specifications.
  • Thorough knowledge of equipment, work processes and techniques used in measuring, and fitting of aluminum/steel components, modules and vessels.
  • Ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and measure using the metric system.
  • Knowledge of shipyard terminology such as general ship structure and vessel layout.
  • Knowledge of edge preparation and weld joint details.
  • Advanced working knowledge of engineering drawings and sketches.

Benefits

  • Dental
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO
  • Vision

Additional Information

  • Work Location: In person

Benefits

Dental
Health Insurance
PTO
Vision
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How this job compares in Newport News, VA

Pay in context

At roughly $38/hr, this posting sits about 31% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Virginia — toward the top of a $24–$34/hr middle band drawn from 70 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 86% 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 Newport News, VA

Newport News, VA currently has 9 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 7 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Virginia as a whole we're tracking 128 other active welding openings from 70 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Newport News, or widen the search to 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 $31/hr, Norfolk at $30/hr, and Chesapeake at $28/hr. Newport News 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. Shipfitters figures were last recalculated when this page was built.