
For 39 years we've put the right tradespeople on the toughest jobs in America's shipyards and plants — navy and commercial ship repair, refineries, and industrial outages — and stood behind every placement. Whether you're looking for work or looking for workers, you're in the right place.
Nationwide Skilled Trades staffs America's toughest maintenance and repair work — navy and commercial vessels in the yard, refineries and plants in the field.

Navy ship repair: shipfitters, marine electricians, pipefitters, and welders for the naval yards of Hampton Roads, San Diego, Bremerton, and Pascagoula.
Commercial ship repair: schedule-driven crews for commercial yards, barges, and offshore support vessels across the Gulf Coast and beyond.
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Combo welders, pipefitters, boilermakers, millwrights, and electricians for refineries, chemical plants, power generation, and shutdown / outage / turnaround work — coast to coast.
National Industrial Division: one call staffs a project anywhere in the country — (704) 741-9808.
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Production, HR, and procurement teams call us when the schedule can't slip. We staff short-term surges, long-term assignments, direct placements, and full payroll services — and we stand behind every worker we send.


Nationwide Skilled Trades connects experienced craftsmen and skilled-trades professionals with leading employers in the marine, industrial, manufacturing, and energy sectors across the United States.
Working draft — trade lists are being finalized with your team. Each trade is built to power the live job board's filters.
See Open PositionsWe staff by market, not from a call center. Every region has its own recruiters, its own client relationships, and its own phone that a real person answers.
Anyone can post a job. What sets NST apart is the part you can't buy overnight: a screening process competitors envy, and relationships built one honest placement at a time.
Every tradesperson is tested for craft and integrity, safety-trained, tool-checked, and background-verified before they ever reach your gate.
We do the right thing and we show our workers and clients that we care. Decades of repeat business is the proof — the kind money can't buy.
250+ combined years of management experience in skilled trades. We speak welder, pipefitter, and shipfitter — because that's who we are.
Whether you're chasing your next job or your next crew, one call gets it moving.