Ship Fitter 1st Class

3 days ago


Newport News, Virginia, United States East Coast Repair and Fabrication Full time
Job Title: Ship Fitter 1st Class

East Coast Repair and Fabrication is seeking a skilled Ship Fitter 1st Class to join our team. As a Ship Fitter 1st Class, you will be responsible for 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.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Positions, aligns, fits, and welds parts to form complete units or subunits, following blueprints and layout specifications, and using jigs, welding torches, and hand tools
  • Verifies conformance of work-pieces to specifications, using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes
  • Tack-welds fitted parts together
  • Lays out and examines metal stock or work-pieces to be processed to ensure that specifications are met
  • Aligns and fits parts according to specifications, using jacks, turnbuckles, wedges, drift pins, pry bars, and hammers
  • Locates and marks work-piece 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
  • Studies engineering drawings and blueprints to determine materials requirements and task sequences
  • Moves parts into position, manually or with hoists or cranes
  • Sets up and operates fabricating machines, such as brakes, rolls, shears, flame cutters, grinders, and drill presses, to bend, cut, form, punch, drill, or otherwise form and assemble metal components
  • Performs other duties as assigned
Requirements:
  • High school diploma or GED and 4 or more years of related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Ability to gain access to military installations
  • Must be able to pass drug test and background check
Physical Requirements:
  • Ability to lift 50 pounds regularly and seek help with weights over 50 pounds
  • Ability to sit and/or stand for long periods of time

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs/vertical ladders; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

This is a physically demanding position and may accommodate some physical disabilities. Physical dexterity may be required when performing walk thru and inspection of job sites.

In the performance of the walk thru you will be required to transverse steep stairwells, vertical ladders and bending or stooping thru tight spaces.

There may be occasional lifting of materials weighing not more than 50 pounds.

Environmental Conditions:

This position works on the jobsite.

There is exposure to hostile environments, loud noises, hazardous chemicals/fumes and airborne particles, smoke, extreme temperatures moving mechanical parts:

high, precarious places.

During work-site visits will be required to wear appropriate PPE including, but not limited to:

Hard Hat

Ear Plugs or Attenuator

Safety Shoes

Dust Mask or Respirator

Gloves


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