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Overview

You will serve as a WELDER LEADER (EXPERT) in the DEPARTMENT OF NAVY at various naval shipyards. The role involves leading a team and ensuring high-quality welding work while implementing process improvements.

Responsibilities

  • Perform reviews of documents associated with completed work and trade processes.
  • Keep shop personnel apprised of new technologies, procedures, and tooling improvements for welding work.
  • Provide process improvements and work with engineering to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
  • Inspect completed and in-process work for quality of workmanship and adherence to requirements.
  • Train and mentor less skilled employees, demonstrating proper work methods.
  • Lead a group to ensure work assignments are completed.

Additional Information

  • Work sites include Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, and Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility.
  • Applicants will only be considered for positions within their own UIC.
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How this job compares in Point Loma Complex, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $43/hr, this posting sits about 21% above the $36/hr median for welding jobs across California — toward the top of a $30–$48/hr middle band drawn from 373 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 66% 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 Point Loma Complex, CA

Point Loma Complex, CA currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 1 employer. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 505 other active welding openings from 240 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Point Loma Complex, or widen the search to California.

Department of the Navy Headquarters currently has 6 other openings live in California, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (37), Relativity Space (18), and Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (13). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within California, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are El Segundo at $53/hr, Los Angeles at $51/hr, and Pasadena at $50/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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