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Job Description

Overview

You will serve as a Pipefitter Supervisor I in the Pipe Shop at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, overseeing production resources and ensuring compliance with performance standards.

Responsibilities

  • Communicate performance standards and provide evaluations with feedback to work leaders and journeymen.
  • Plan the use of workers, equipment, facilities, materials, and tools for assigned units of work.
  • Provide technical direction and general knowledge of work techniques, methods, and equipment to workers and journeymen.
  • Perform regular job site supervision and monitor conformance to procedures, practices, and performance goals.
  • Maintain accurate records of time expended and progress on assigned tasks.
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How this job compares in Naval Shipyard, VA

Pay in context

At roughly $51/hr, this posting sits about 76% 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 97% 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 Naval Shipyard, VA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Naval Shipyard, 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.

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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 SUPERVISOR I figures were last recalculated when this page was built.