Shipfitter 1/C

Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc; Port Saint Joe (FL); On-site; USD 40,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc in Port Saint Joe, FL is seeking a skilled shipfitter to lay out and fabricate metal structural parts within hulls, welding or riveting as required. Responsibilities include reading blueprints, marking reference lines, aligning parts, and tacking welds or brackets.

Proficiency with torches or plasma cutters and working from templates are essential, with a focus on safety and quality.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Three to five years of shipfitting experience preferred.
• Ability to read and understand blueprints and diagrams.
• Proficiency with hand and power tools and measurement devices.
• Commitment to safety and OSHA regulations.

Responsibilities

• Regular attendance and ability to work flexible hours, including overtime, weekends, and holidays.
• Comply with safety, ethics, and environmental rules and policies.
• Layout parts from blueprints or templates and use scribe and hand tools.
• Mark reference lines (center, buttock, frame) and align parts with jacks, turnbuckles, clips, wedges, and mauls.
• Mark hole locations and install temporary fasteners for welding or riveting.
• Prepare molds and templates for nonstandard parts.
• Install packing, gaskets, liners, and structural accessories and members.
• Tack weld clips and brackets prior to permanent welding.
• Accountable for daily work assignments; work with minimal supervision.
• Flag cranes and pull angle iron as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Blueprint reading

Tape measure reading

Hand and power tool use

Reading blueprints

Safety awareness

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Torch/plasma cutter

Welding (7018/6011)

Job description

POSITION SUMMARY

Lay out and fabricate metal structural parts, such as plates, bulkheads, and frames. Brace them in position within the hull of ships for riveting or welding. May prepare molds and templates for fabrication of nonstandard parts according to specifications.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES MAY INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

Because Eastern Shipbuilding is continually growing to meet the needs of our customers, and the essential duties and responsibilities may be different from those described.

• Regular attendance at work and the ability to work flexible hours, including overtime, weekends, and holidays.


• Comply with company, Federal, State, and local safety, ethics, and environmental rules, regulations, and policies while performing duties.


• Layout position of parts on metal, working from blueprints or templates and using scribe and hand tools.


• Locate and mark reference lines, such as center, buttock, and frame lines.


• Align parts in relation to each other, using jacks, turnbuckles, clips, wedges, and mauls.


• Mark the location of holes to be drilled and install temporary fasteners to hold the part in place for welding or riveting.


• Prepare molds and templates for fabrication of nonstandard parts.


• Install packing, gaskets, liners, and structural accessories and members, such as doors, hatches, brackets, and clips.


• Tack weld clips and brackets in place prior to permanent welding.


• Accountable for completion of daily work assignments


• Flag cranes and pull angle iron as required.


• Work with minimal supervision.


• Perform other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

May indirectly supervise and train subordinates.

REQUIREMENTS

• Education/ Experience: High school diploma or GED equivalent, plus three to five years of shipfitting experience desired.


• Knowledge of materials, methods, and the appropriate tools to construct marine vessels is required.


• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.


• Must be able to cut and burn with a torch or plasma cutter.


• Tack weld with 7018 6011 stainless rod, mig, and aluminum.


• Requires knowledge of ship terminology, safety, and OSHA regulations.

Skills

• Ability to read and comprehend written, oral, or diagram forms.


• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.


• Ability to read and understand blueprints.


• Knowledge of the safe operation and use of hand and power tools.


• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide into all units of measure.


• Ability to read a tape measure.

Behavioral Attributes

Integrity, ethics, flexibility/ adaptability, initiative, interpersonal skills, attention to detail, safety-conscious, and multitasking. Maintain the confidential integrity of details pertaining to Eastern Shipbuilding Group.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing throughout the workday. The employee must frequently lift and/ or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee must be physically and medically qualified to wear all required personal protective equipment, as prescribed under Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards. The employee must be able to work above ground at heights of a minimum of 50 feet aloft and/ or working from scaffolding and/or man-lifts while working with machinery; in confined spaces and withstanding extreme heat and cold in an outside climate or confined space.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The employee may be exposed to the risk of electrical shock, moving mechanical parts, vibration, fumes, airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, continual loud noise, and other hazards found in a heavy industrial shipyard environment. Rigorous compliance with safety procedures, policies, and personal safety equipment requirements is therefore mandatory.

We are equal opportunity/affirmative action employers, committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under state or local law.

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that’s unique about our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to success, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it’s our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hardworking, curious, trustworthy, humble and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in our area.