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Job Description

Overview

The Welding Project Leader 4 position at Newport News Shipbuilding involves coordinating welding projects to enhance productivity and quality, providing technical assistance, and liaising between trades and engineering functions. The company is a leading industrial employer in Virginia, specializing in the design and construction of U.S. Navy nuclear vessels.

Responsibilities

  • Expedite the implementation of productivity and quality improvements in welding operations.
  • Coordinate assigned projects from initiation through implementation.
  • Provide technical and hands-on assistance to Trades personnel.
  • Assist in job planning, equipment set-up, and troubleshooting.
  • Coordinate the movement of needed equipment and materials.
  • Function as a liaison between Trades and other Company functions.

Requirements

  • High school graduate or equivalent.
  • Minimum of ten years related welding experience.
  • NNS Apprentice graduate and experience in automatic welding processes preferred.
  • Knowledge of ship construction methods, welding processes and equipment.
  • Excellent communication skills.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Full-Time position.
  • 1st shift.
  • No relocation assistance available.
  • Not eligible for telework.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Newport News, VA

Pay in context

At roughly $55/hr, this posting sits about 37% above the $40/hr median for welding jobs in Newport News, VA — toward the top of a $29–$41/hr middle band drawn from 12 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 100% 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

We're tracking 21 other active welding openings in Newport News, VA right now, from 8 different employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Virginia as a whole we're tracking 163 other active welding openings from 83 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Newport News, or widen the search to Virginia.

HII currently has 7 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. 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. WELDING PROJECT LEADER 4 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.