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Overview

HardHat National is hiring 2 Weld Supervisors for a major aerospace launch hardware program at Cape Canaveral. This is a supervisor title with manager-level scope, overseeing a night shift crew of 30+ welders and fitters, responsible for schedule, quality, and safety.

Responsibilities

  • Run the shift independently, including assignments, manpower, materials, and daily turnover to days.
  • Hold the schedule and recover it when it slips through resequencing, kitting, prefab, and planning.
  • Drive quality and compliance, including WPS, traceability, inspection readiness, and clean repairs.
  • Lead and develop foremen and welders, setting clear expectations.
  • Maintain a safe and clean shop.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of welding experience with a hands-on background.
  • Leadership experience as a general foreman, superintendent, or department manager, ideally leading 20 or more.
  • Shipbuilding, ship repair, Navy, or defense fabrication background strongly preferred.
  • A track record of owning a schedule and recovering lost time.
  • Comfortable running nights.
  • U.S. citizenship and ability to pass the required federal/Air Force background screening for Cape Canaveral.

Benefits

  • Weekly pay
  • Direct deposit
  • Health Insurance
  • 401k
  • $125 per diem for qualified travelers

Additional Information

  • Night shift, 6/12
  • Starting immediately
  • Work location: On the road

Benefits

Weekly pay
Direct deposit
Health Insurance
401k
$125 per diem for qualified travelers
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How this job compares in Mayport, FL

Pay in context

At roughly $50/hr, this posting sits about 79% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Florida — toward the top of a $24–$31/hr middle band drawn from 123 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 Mayport, FL

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Mayport, FL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Florida as a whole we're tracking 257 other active welding openings from 133 employers. Browse welding jobs across Florida.

The most active employers in Florida at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Miami, FL (27), Honeywell Technologies (12), and BAE Systems (10). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Florida, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Miami at $35/hr, Cape Canaveral at $32/hr, and Jacksonville at $32/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. Weld Supervisor / General Foreman figures were last recalculated when this page was built.