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Overview

You will serve as a PIPEFITTER SUPERVISOR I in the DEPARTMENT OF NAVY, overseeing work sites including Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Trident Refit Facility Bangor, and Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility. Applicants will only be considered for positions within their own UIC.

Responsibilities

  • Plan work schedules of subordinates and establish priorities based on general work schedules and instructions from higher levels of supervision.
  • Make recommendations concerning training requirements, skills, and qualifications of personnel.
  • Instruct subordinates regarding work requirements, methods, procedures, safe work practices, and scheduling requirements.
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How this job compares in San Diego, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $51/hr, this posting sits about 25% above the $41/hr median for welding jobs in San Diego, CA — toward the top of a $28–$43/hr middle band drawn from 10 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 100% 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 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 SUPERVISOR I figures were last recalculated when this page was built.