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Job Description

Overview

Kodiak Labor Solutions is hiring experienced Pipefitters in the Richmond, VA area for full-time, temp-to-hire opportunities in commercial construction. Candidates should be able to read drawings, lay out piping, cut and thread pipe, install piping systems, and work safely on an active construction site.

Responsibilities

  • Read blueprints, drawings, and specifications.
  • Lay out, measure, cut, thread, fit, assemble, and install commercial piping systems.
  • Install pipe, valves, fittings, supports, and related piping components.
  • Work with piping materials including steel, iron, copper, brass, and plastic.
  • Use pipe cutters, Port-a-Band saws, reciprocating saws, torches, threading machines, and other pipefitting tools.
  • Join piping using threading, grooving, soldering, brazing, fittings, and solvent-weld methods.
  • Lay out pipe runs, connections, penetrations, openings, and equipment connections.
  • Install piping accurately according to drawings, measurements, elevations, and specifications.
  • Pressure-test completed piping systems and identify and repair leaks.
  • Recognize potential installation conflicts and communicate issues before they affect the work.
  • Coordinate piping installations with HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and other construction trades.
  • Maintain a productive work area and follow all company, OSHA, and jobsite safety requirements.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of commercial pipefitting or mechanical construction experience.
  • Hands-on experience installing piping systems on commercial construction projects.
  • Ability to read and work independently from blueprints, drawings, and specifications.
  • Strong experience with pipe layout, measurement, cutting, threading, fitting, grooving, and installation.
  • Experience with steel, iron, copper, and/or plastic piping systems.
  • Working knowledge of threaded, grooved, soldered, and brazed piping systems.
  • Ability to accurately determine pipe runs, measurements, elevations, and connection points.
  • Experience pressure-testing piping and troubleshooting leaks.
  • Knowledge of applicable OSHA safety requirements and piping/plumbing codes.
  • Ability to identify field conflicts and make sound installation decisions.
  • Ability to work independently while coordinating effectively with foremen and other trades.
  • Strong commitment to safety, quality, productivity, and teamwork.

Benefits

  • Dental
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO
  • Vision

Additional Information

  • Multiple project locations in the Richmond/Central Virginia area.
  • Work Location: In person.

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $35/hr, this posting comes in about 23% below the $45/hr median for pipefitter jobs across Virginia, where the middle half runs $40–$51/hr across 8 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 25% 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.

The local market in Chesterfield, VA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Chesterfield, 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 163 other active welding openings from 82 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. (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.

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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 (New Commercial Construction) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.