Shipfitter 3/C

Eastern Shipbuilding; Panama City, Northern (FL, KY); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. is seeking a skilled shipfitter to support steel construction and repairs on marine vessels at our Panama City, FL facility.

The role requires working under general supervision to perform craft-specific duties essential to vessel fabrication and assembly. The position emphasizes adherence to safety protocols, ability to read blueprints, and proficient use of hand and power tools, with opportunities to contribute to critical structural work in a heavy industrial

Qualifications

• Education/Experience: High school diploma or GED plus one year shipfitting experience.
• Knowledge of materials, methods, and tools to construct marine vessels.
• Must be able to cut and burn with a torch; tack weld with 7018/6011 stainless rod, MIG, and aluminum.
• Knowledge of ship terminology, safety, and OSHA regulations.
• Ability to read and comprehend written, oral, or diagram form; read simple blueprints; use hand and power tools.

Responsibilities

• Regular attendance and ability to work flexible hours, including overtime, weekends and holidays.
• Align parts using jacks, turnbuckles, clips, wedges, and mauls.
• Install packing, gaskets, liners, and structural members such as doors, hatches, brackets, and clips.
• Tack weld clips and brackets in place prior to permanent welding.
• Lay out parts, bulkheads, and frames; loft parts from offsets.
• Build bulkheads and decks with assistance from supervisor.
• Flag cranes and perform some rigging of small lifts and bulkheads.
• Perform general layout work.

Skills

Blueprints

Tape measure

OSHA safety

Reading diagrams

Math basics

Hand and power tools

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Torch

MIG welding

Aluminum welding

Job description

This job description is a general description of the essential job functions and is not intended to be an employment contract. Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. maintains its status as an at-will employer. Position requirements, skills, and abilities included in this job description have been determined to be the minimal standards required to successfully perform the position. Eastern Shipbuilding Group Inc. reserves the right to increase, waive or reduce these minimal standards. In no instance, however, should the duties, responsibilities, and requirements described be interpreted as all-inclusive. All employees of Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. are expected to perform the duties as assigned by Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc., supervisory/management personnel, regardless of job title or routine job duties. Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. To perform this job successfully, an individual is expected to be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability expected. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. However, no accommodation will be made which may pose serious health or safety risks to the employee or others or which imposes undue hardship on Eastern Shipbuilding.

POSITION SUMMARY

Under general supervision, perform normal craft-specific duties as required to support steel construction and repairs on marine vessels.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES MAY INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

• 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.
• May assist in aligning parts in relation to each other, using jacks, turnbuckles, clips, wedges, and mauls.
• May assist in installing 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.
• Lay out parts, bulkheads, and frames.
• Loft parts from a table of offsets.
• Build bulkheads and decks with assistance from supervisor.
• Flag cranes and be able to perform some rigging of small lifts and bulkheads.
• Perform some general layout work.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

REQUIREMENTS

Education/Experience: High school diploma or GED equivalent, plus one year shipfitting experience desired. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. Knowledge of materials, methods, and the appropriate tools to construct marine vessels. Must be able to cut and burn with a torch. 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 form. Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to read and understand simple blueprints. Knowledge of safe operation and use of hand and power tools. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in 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 multi-tasking. 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 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 withstand 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.