Location
Pascagoula, MS
Wage
$34 – $35/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 6, 2026
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated 1st Class Pipe Welder, Pipe Fitter, Ship Fitter, Painter Blaster, and Structural Welder with 3-5 years of experience to join our dynamic team for a long-term ship construction project in Pascagoula, MS. This role offers a quick hire process and competitive pay.
At roughly $35/hr, this posting comes in about 12% below the $39/hr median for welding jobs in Pascagoula, MS, where the middle half runs $39–$39/hr across 17 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 18% 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.
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 MIG, TIG, and Flux-Core work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.
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, Pipe Welder, Structural Welder, Painter Blaster figures were last recalculated when this page was built.