Location
Pascagoula, MS
Wage
$34 – $53/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on November 6, 2026
This job posting seeks to hire 1st Class Craftsmen for various positions including Pipe Fitter, Pipe Welder, Shipfitter, and more, for a long-term contract of at least one year in Pascagoula, MS. The roles offer competitive hourly pay and per diem allowances.
At roughly $44/hr, this posting sits about 12% above the $39/hr median for welding jobs in Pascagoula, MS — toward the top of a $38–$39/hr middle band drawn from 17 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 88% 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.
We're tracking 24 other active welding openings in Pascagoula, MS right now, from 7 different employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Mississippi as a whole we're tracking 83 other active welding openings from 46 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Pascagoula, or widen the search to Mississippi.
FirstFour Staffing currently has 1 other opening live in Mississippi, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Mississippi at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are HII (13), TIC - The Industrial Company (11), and Ingalls Shipbuilding, a Division of HII (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
This posting calls for Stick and Flux-Core work. Stick (SMAW) burns a flux-coated consumable rod and needs no shielding gas, so it works in wind, rain, and on dirty or rusted steel. That tolerance for bad conditions keeps it the default for field, structural, and repair work. Flux-cored (FCAW) runs a hollow wire filled with flux, combining MIG-like deposition rates with the outdoor tolerance of stick. It is the workhorse on heavy structural steel and shipbuilding, where thick sections and long welds reward speed.
See all shipyard welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Shipfitter, Pipe Fitter, Electrician, Joiner, Sheetmetal, Pipe Welder $1000 Sign on bonus figures were last recalculated when this page was built.