Plumber Jobs in Richmond, Maine
1 Plumber job hiring now in Richmond, Maine — verified TradeHire employers plus openings sourced from around the web.
Plumber work in Richmond, Maine
Plumbers install and repair water supply, drain, waste and vent piping, fixtures, water heaters and the piping that serves them. Richmond is in Sagadahoc County, whose county seat is Bath and whose population was 36,699 in 2020. TradeHire shows postings at county level, so this page lists every plumber opening in Sagadahoc County, not only those in Richmond itself.
31.7% of the housing units in Sagadahoc County were built before 1950 and the median home was built in 1977 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates). Older buildings mean galvanized and cast-iron piping reaching the end of its life, and Maine winters make frozen-pipe repairs and well-and-septic work a regular part of the job outside the sewered towns.
- Bath Iron Works, a General Dynamics shipyard, is ranked as the fourth-largest employer in Maine.
- Bath is known as the City of Ships, and roughly 5,000 vessels have been launched there.
What plumber work pays around Richmond
The 1 verified TradeHire posting on this page offers from $31.00 up to $35.00 an hour, as entered by the employers.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (May 2025 estimates) counts plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters in the Portland-South Portland area at 1,740 jobs with a median wage of $31.01 an hour; statewide 2,710 jobs, a $30.77 median, and a range of $23.13 (10th percentile) to $38.83 (90th percentile). Check your own number with the trade wage calculator.
Licenses employers ask for
- The Plumbers' Examining Board licenses Master, Journeyman, Trainee and Journeyman-in-Training plumbers; a trainee license requires only a completed application.
- Journeyman-in-Training requires a one-year (2-semester) plumbing course at a board-approved community college or a two-year career and technical education plumbing course, and a score of 70% or higher on the journeyman exam.