Shipyard welder.
4G overhead + D1.1. U.S. shipbuilding is hiring like it's 1942.
U.S. shipbuilding is in the middle of its biggest hiring push since World War II. The Navy needs hulls. Commercial yards (mostly Jones Act-compliant) are building tankers, container ships, and LNG carriers. Coast Guard cutters, oil-platform repair, and ballast-water retrofit work all add hands-on hours.
The big yards are Bath Iron Works (Maine), Newport News Shipbuilding (Virginia), Ingalls Shipbuilding (Mississippi), NASSCO (San Diego), Bollinger (Louisiana), Fincantieri Marinette (Wisconsin), and Vigor (Portland OR / Seattle WA). Most run 4-on / 4-off shifts and pay $25–$45/hr with strong benefits and pensions.
Required: AWS D1.1 plus the 4G overhead position cert — overhead welding is endemic in ship hulls, and the X-ray pass rate on 4G is the gating skill. Most yards hire welder helpers off the street and put them through an in-house apprenticeship. If you can pass a 4G weld test on day one, you walk in as a journeyman.
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