Shipfitter - Nationwide Skilled Trades, Inc.
Virginia Beach, VA 23464
About the Job
Nationwide Skilled Trades is hiring shipfitters with approximately 4 or more years of experience laying out, positioning, aligning, and fitting parts of structural metal products with the use of regular supervision and while always adhering to industry safety standards. Employee should be expert in laying out and fabricating metal structural parts, such as plates, bulkheads, and frames, and bracing them in position within hull of ship for riveting or welding: mostly working from blueprints/ templates and using hand tools.
Requirements
- DBIDS and NAVSEA Required
- Pay rate is dependent on experience.
- Minimum of 3-5 years' experience required.
- Must pass a drug test and background check.
- Possess a high school diploma or GED.
Required PPE: Steel toed boots, respirator, hard hat, and safety glasses.
Job Description
- Read and Comprehend blueprints, sketches, and templates.
- Needs to be able to tack weld with stick.
- ABS & AWS joint design.
- Needs to be energetic, on point and reliable.
- General understanding of weld acceptance criteria.
- Be able to use jacks, turnbuckles, clips, wedges, and mauls.
- Needs to be able to pass testing that includes 2F 3F & 4F.
- Should be able to work effectively without templates and blueprints.
- Prepare molds and templates for fabrication of nonstandard parts.
- Tack weld clips and brackets in place prior to permanent welding.
- Roll, bend, flange, cut, and shape plates, beams, and other heavy metal parts, using shop machinery, such as plate rolls, presses, bending brakes, and joggle machines.
- Aligns and fits parts according to specifications, using jacks, turnbuckles, wedges, drift pins, pry bars, and hammers
- Locates and marks workpiece bending and cutting lines, allowing for stock thickness, machine and welding shrinkage, and other component specifications
- Positions or tightens braces, jacks, clamps, ropes, or bolt straps, or bolt parts in position for welding or riveting
For immediate response please text our recruiters at 757-692-6442
"Consider it Done" with Nationwide Skilled Trades! Nationwide Skilled Trades has over 31 years+ of experience serving the Shipyard, Construction and Light Industrial industry nationwide and are experts in recruiting, testing and training our employees. We provide staffing and management support for a wide variety of projects, across the nation.
Nationwide Skilled Trades is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or any characteristic protected by law.
About Nationwide Skilled Trades, Inc.:
Nationwide Skilled Trades is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high performing talent who are passionate in what they do. Our employees are the driving force behind our success and reputation for providing top talent amongst skilled tradesmen and tradeswomen to the clients that we serve. Fundamental to our culture, is an unwavering commitment to ethics and values.
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