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Job Description

Overview

This role involves performing high-quality MIG and TIG welding, fabrication, and finishing work on components such as I-beams, frames, and fuel tanks in various positions. The company offers stability and opportunities for skill development in a fast-paced production environment.

Responsibilities

  • Perform welding duties using MIG, TIG, wire welders, spot welders, and oxy/acetylene torches.
  • Weld I-beams, frames, and fuel tanks in flat, vertical, and overhead positions.
  • Clean and dress welds to meet quality and appearance standards.
  • Set up and lay out work using material handling equipment or hand layouts.
  • Manually set up and operate handheld sanders, grinders, wire wheels, and other finishing tools.
  • Clamp, hold, tack weld, drill, mill, tap, cut, and bolt components together.
  • Create quality welds in accordance with blueprints and specifications.
  • Inspect all welds and rework as necessary.
  • Inspect products, equipment, and tools for defects or malfunctions.
  • Change wire and gas on welding machines as necessary.
  • Operate all welding equipment safely and ensure safe practices.
  • Maintain welding equipment and machines, performing regular inspections.
  • Assist in fuel tank pressure testing and perform rework as necessary.
  • Complete work to meet established time, quality, and production standards.
  • Accurately account for time and work completed using weekly timesheets.
  • Report and document material, production, quality, or safety issues.
  • Demonstrate flexibility and responsiveness with a strong team-oriented approach.
  • Willingly cross-train and perform additional job tasks as needed.
  • Use basic hand tools effectively and safely.
  • Work efficiently in a fast-paced environment while maintaining attention to detail.
  • Exhibit a strong focus on quality, safety, and continuous improvement.
  • Follow written and oral instructions and demonstrate effective problem-solving skills.
  • Practice safety-conscious behavior at all times.

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $28/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 41% 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 Virginia Beach, VA

Virginia Beach, VA is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Virginia as a whole we're tracking 128 other active welding openings from 71 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Virginia.

Aerotek 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. (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 and TIG 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.

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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.