Marine Carpenter

ZipRecruiter; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job description

Job Description:

Hinckley Yachts has been building and servicing America’s finest yachts since 1928. With ten YachtCare Centers spanning from Maine to Florida, we offer comprehensive service, refits, transportation, and storage, providing our customers with a pinnacle ownership experience.

The Hinckley Company, known for building and servicing strong, seaworthy, and beautiful yachts, is seeking a Marine Carpenter for our service yard in Stuart, Florida. The Carpenter performs joiner and carpentry tasks on and off boats, following plans, blueprints, or patterns under the supervision of a team leader or manager. The Carpenter uses specialized equipment and adhesives to achieve our desired results.
Hinckley offers competitive wages, training, and full benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k with an employer match, and paid time off. Our expanding network allows the opportunity for upward mobility and a clear career path to achieve personal success.
Essential Duties:

• Transfer dimensions to marine plywood and other construction materials using tape measure, square, and marking/layout devices.
• Make accurate cuts of wood and other materials using table and chop saws and other related power tools.
• Skilled in reading and interpreting blueprints.
• Layout, cut, and assemble boat parts, such as doors, paneling, boxes, rails, and trim.
• Good working knowledge of most woodworking joints in the marine industry, such as scarf, sill splice, lap, finger, and dovetail.
• Skilled knowledge and use of epoxies and vinylester resins or other adhesives to bond parts.
• Understands yachting terminology, local and industry, e.g., port/starboard, gump (trim moulding), and bung (wood plug).
• Use reading and writing, adding and subtracting of whole numbers and fractions.
• Follow prescribed safety rules and regulations and maintain a safe, clean work area.
• Understands and performs all work to Hinckley quality standards.
• Performs other related duties as necessary.

Requirements:

• High school or general equivalency degree (GED) required.
• Coursework in wood and/or metals.
• Knowledge, operation, and set-up of tape measure, square, hand saw, hand plane, table saw, chop saw, planer, joiner, band saw, shaper, surface sander, and router.
• Twelve (12) months carpentry, plus two (2) years boatbuilding experience which may be attained on-the-job and by company training.

Physical Requirements:

• Lift and carry over 60 lbs. on an occasional basis (over 15% and up to 40%).
• Requires moderate physical demand, occasionally lifting or moving heavy weight material and working in difficult work positions.
• Requires continuous mental and visual attention on an intermittent basis.
• Must be able to lift, bend, kneel, stoop, push, and pull.
• Requires working under disagreeable conditions on a frequent basis where elements such as dust, dirt, heat, fumes, cold, vibration, noise, water, or chemicals may be present.