Pipefitter – Data Center Construction
Location
Wise, VA
Wage
$35 – $45/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on November 2, 2026
Location
Wise, VA
Wage
$35 – $45/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 2, 2026
Professional Piping Systems, LLC is a Phoenix-based industrial contractor providing pipe fabrication, mechanical installation and maintenance, and industrial coatings. They are hiring experienced Pipefitters for a large-scale data center construction project, responsible for installing, fitting, and assembling mechanical piping systems in a commercial/industrial construction environment.
At roughly $40/hr, this posting comes in about 11% below the $45/hr median for pipefitter jobs across Virginia, where the middle half runs $35–$51/hr across 8 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 38% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.
Wise, VA is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Virginia as a whole we're tracking 163 other active welding openings from 83 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Virginia.
Professional Piping Systems, LLC currently has 2 other openings 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. (8). 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 $40/hr, Norfolk at $30/hr, and Chesapeake at $27/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Pipefitter – Data Center Construction figures were last recalculated when this page was built.