Ship Tacker

Chouest; Houma (LA); Hybrid; USD 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

LaShip, an Edison Chouest Offshore affiliate, seeks a Ship Tacker to support fitting and welding operations in the shipyard. You will assist in positioning plates, piping, and weldments, read tape measures, and help prepare assemblies for final welding.

Proficiency with hand and power tools, along with the ability to interpret measurements and lay out components, is required. The role involves working with fitters in a dynamic post-welding environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with welding and fit-up preparation.
• Ability to read blueprints and measurements.
• Proficiency with hand and power tools.

Responsibilities

• Assists fitter or fitter-welder to position, align, and fit together plates, structural shapes, piping, and weldments preparatory to assembly into fabricated products.
• Holds, positions, and reads tape measure to assist in layout.
• Uses hammers, wedges, and pry bars, and come-alongs to align parts.
• Grinds or chips rough edges, surplus weld, rust, or scale, using a portable grinder or air chipper.
• Sets up welding leads from the welding machine to the proximity of where work is to be performed.
• Tack welds in flat, horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and overhead positions. Manually guides electrode along weld line as specified by the fitter. Examines weld for proper bead size and characteristics.
• May mark reference lines or locations that are to be cut or drilled.
• Assist fitter in installing packing, gaskets, liners, bearings, doors, hatches, brackets, shafts, wheels, rudders, coolers, anodes, and other structural accessories. May use hand or power tools.

Skills

Welding

Layout & fit-up

Bead inspection

Tools

Tape measure

Grinder

Pry bars

Air chipper

Welding leads

Come-alongs

Job description

Edison Chouest Offshore affiliate LaShip is accepting applications for the position of Ship Tacker.

Position Summary:

• Welds short beads at points specified by the fitter or fitter foreman, along overlapping or adjoining edges to hold the workpiece in place for final welding.

Essential Job Functions:

• Assists fitter or fitter-welder to position, align, and fit together plates, structural shapes, piping, and weldments preparatory to assembly into fabricated products.
• Holds, positions, and reads tape measure to assist in layout.
• Uses hammers, wedges, and pry bars, and come-alongs to align parts.
• Grinds or chips rough edges, surplus weld, rust, or scale, using a portable grinder or air chipper.
• Sets up welding leads from the welding machine to the proximity of where work is to be performed.
• Tack welds in flat, horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and overhead positions. Manually guides electrode along weld line as specified by the fitter. Examines weld for proper bead size and characteristics.
• May mark reference lines or locations that are to be cut or drilled.
• Assist fitter in installing packing, gaskets, liners, bearings, doors, hatches, brackets, shafts, wheels, rudders, coolers, anodes, and other structural accessories. May use hand or power tools.