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Overview

The AFC Welder-Fitter/Fabricator position involves joining a team that constructs the outer hull of Virginia and Columbia Class Nuclear Powered Submarines, utilizing both manual and mechanized welding processes along with shipfitting and metal fabrication functions.

Responsibilities

  • Fabricate and weld frames and cylinders for the pressure hull.
  • Use hydraulic fixtures for fabrication tasks.
  • Follow work packages, fixture setup sheets, drawings, ER's, and SSP's to ensure quality.
  • Read and interpret blueprints, welding symbols, and fabrication drawings.
  • Prepare steel surfaces according to drawing specifications.
  • Pass required welding tests to maintain position after training.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent or a minimum of 2 years related technical experience.
  • On-the-job welding experience or formal welding training or EB welding qualifications.
  • Ability to read and interpret welding and shipyard procedures, structural drawings, technical manuals, test documents, and diagrams.
  • Available to work all shifts.
  • Ability to work at heights, in confined spaces, and in extreme temperature conditions.
  • Pass a destructive bend weld test and meet minimum visual acceptance requirements.
  • Possess basic hand tools.
  • Ability to operate impact guns and high torque machinery.
  • Basic math skills.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • This position is located at the Quonset Point facility in North Kingstown, RI.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in North Kingstown, RI

Pay in context

At roughly $33/hr, this posting sits about 36% above the $24/hr median for welding jobs across Rhode Island — toward the top of a $24–$33/hr middle band drawn from 13 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 69% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in North Kingstown, RI

North Kingstown, RI currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 5 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Rhode Island as a whole we're tracking 18 other active welding openings from 14 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in North Kingstown, or widen the search to Rhode Island.

General Dynamics Electric Boat currently has 4 other openings live in Rhode Island, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Rhode Island at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are General Dynamics Electric Boat (4) and Ultimate Staffing (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Similar openings near North Kingstown, RI

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. AFC Welder-Fitter/Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.