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Job Description

Overview

The PIPEFITTER LEADER (EXPERT) position at the DEPARTMENT OF NAVY involves leading a team of pipefitters at various naval shipyards, ensuring the completion of work assignments and the quality of workmanship.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a group to ensure work assignments are completed.
  • Install, modify, fabricate, and repair shipboard system piping and equipment.
  • Mentor, train, and instruct Pipe Shop employees in pipefitting duties.
  • Inspect completed and in-progress work for quality and adherence to specifications.
  • Perform maintenance, repairs, troubleshooting, installation, modification, and testing.
  • Conduct research to improve trade processes and keep personnel updated on new technologies.

Additional Information

  • Position located in Shop 56.
  • Applicants will only be considered for positions within their own UIC.
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How this job compares in San Diego, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $43/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $41/hr median for welding jobs in San Diego, CA, whose middle half runs $28–$43/hr across 10 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 70% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in San Diego, CA

We're tracking 13 other active welding openings in San Diego, CA right now, from 11 different employers. 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. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in San Diego, 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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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. PIPEFITTER LEADER (EXPERT) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.