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U.S. Coast Guard

Welder (Shipfitter)

Location

Glen Burnie, MD

Wage

$34.71 – $40.55/hr

Required Skills & Certifications

MIG WeldingStick WeldingFlux-Core Welding
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Posted on November 10, 2026

Job Description

Overview

This position is located in the Department of Homeland Security, US Coast Guard, Industrial Department, Structural Shop in Baltimore, MD, where you will perform journeyman welding and shipfitting tasks for various marine craft and vessels.

Responsibilities

  • Identify different types of metal and alloys and determine thickness and proper grade.
  • Develop templates, layout, and fabricate complex and simple sub-assemblies.
  • Use plasma arc and oxy-acetylene torch for burning, flushing, and heating material.
  • Use lifting eyes, chain falls, overhead cranes, slings, chains, and other lifting gear to move material.
  • Erect hull components on site in accordance with center line, base line, buttock lines, and waterlines.
  • Perform tack-welding tasks in the 3F and 4F positions using various welding equipment.
  • Complete mandatory training and other necessary training for success in the position.
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How this job compares in Glen Burnie, MD

Pay in context

At roughly $38/hr, this posting sits about 14% above the $33/hr median for welding jobs across Maryland — toward the top of a $27–$38/hr middle band drawn from 20 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 85% 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 Glen Burnie, MD

Glen Burnie, MD is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Maryland as a whole we're tracking 29 other active welding openings from 24 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Maryland.

U.S. Coast Guard currently has 1 other opening live in Maryland, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Maryland at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Dixon Valve (2), Aether Aerospace (2), and Eaton (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG, Stick, 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. 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.

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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. Welder (Shipfitter) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.