Shipfitter III

Walashek Industrial & Marine Inc. is seeking a skilled Shipfitter III to join their team. As a key member of the shipbuilding process, this individual will be responsible for laying out and fabricating metal structural parts, ensuring precise fit-up tolerances, and safely operating various hand and power tools.

• Lay out and fabricate metal structural parts, including plates, bulkheads, and frames, and position them in the hull of the ship for riveting or welding.
• Locate and mark reference lines, such as center, buttock, and frame lines, using blueprints or templates and hand tools.
• Position parts in the hull of the ship, assisted by a RIGGER (ship-boat mfg.), and align them 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.
• Install packing, gaskets, liners, and structural accessories and members, such as doors, hatches, brackets, and clips.
• Prepare molds and templates for the fabrication of nonstandard parts and 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.
• Interpret welding blueprints and perform layout for welding and fitting operations, and safely and efficiently use various hand and power tools.
• Safely and efficiently use various welders and cutting tools, and be able to weld with both wire feed and stick in any and all positions.
• Be able to layout the position of parts on metal templates using scribes and hand tools, and use large machinery, such as a metal shear, metal brake, and band saw.
• Be able to use welding equipment for tacking, and meet fit-up tolerances required by contract.
• Familiar with and know where to reference required guiding directives per contract.

• High School Diploma, One year certificate from college or technical school; or equivalent combination of education and/or industrial marine welding experience.

• Open-air conditions, such as noisy, hot, cold, etc.
• Must wear hearing, eye, head protection, and proper PPE.
• Some climbing (100 feet) and lifting (50 lbs.) involved.
• Working with hot and sometimes hazardous materials.
• Aboard ships, both on and offshore as well as confined spaces.
• Some travel required.

• Blow torches, Motorized cutting torches, Pattern cutting torches, Welding torches.
• Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus, Brazing equipment, Heliarc welding equipment, Oxyacetylene welding equipment, Portable gas operated arc welders.
• Man lift or personnel lift, Hydraulic truck lifts, Swing stages.
• Taps or dies, Dies, Taps.
• Welding masks, Hand shields, Welding shields.
• Workshop presses, Brakes, Drill presses, Portable magnetic drill presses, Punch presses.

• Ability to work under deadlines and schedule pressures.
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints.
• Mechanical abilities and aptitude.
• Must be able to climb up and down ladders and gangways, work aloft while wearing fall prevention equipment.
• Ability to lift up to 70 pounds and carry the same for short distances and up and down stairs and steep inclines.
• The work requires long periods of sitting in awkward positions, standing on a variety of surfaces and at differing angles, bending over, crouching, and climbing up and over obstructions such as scaffolding, ladders, and internal barge and boat structural members.

Walashek Industrial & Marine Inc. is an EEO/AA/Disability/Vets Employer.