Eastern Shipbuilding Group

Overview

The Shipfitter 1/C position at Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. involves laying out and fabricating metal structural parts for ships, ensuring compliance with safety regulations and performing duties with minimal supervision. The company is an at-will employer and emphasizes the importance of flexibility and adaptability in its workforce.

Responsibilities

• Lay out and fabricate metal structural parts such as plates, bulkheads, and frames.
• Brace parts in position within the hull of ships for riveting or welding.
• Prepare molds and templates for fabrication of nonstandard parts.
• Regular attendance at work and ability to work flexible hours, including overtime, weekends, and holidays.
• Comply with safety, ethics, and environmental rules while performing duties.
• Layout position of parts on metal from blueprints or templates using hand tools.
• Locate and mark reference lines such as center, buttock, and frame lines.
• Align parts using jacks, turnbuckles, clips, wedges, and mauls.
• Mark the location of holes to be drilled and install temporary fasteners.
• Install packing, gaskets, liners, and structural accessories.
• 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.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED equivalent.
• Three to five years of shipfitting experience desired.
• Knowledge of materials, methods, and tools to construct marine vessels.
• Ability to cut and burn with a torch or plasma cutter.
• 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 forms.
• Ability to read and understand blueprints.
• Knowledge of safe operation and use of hand and power tools.
• Ability to perform basic arithmetic operations.
• Ability to read a tape measure.

Additional Information

• May indirectly supervise and train subordinates.
• Employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Employee may be exposed to various hazards in a heavy industrial shipyard environment.