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Job Description

Overview

Craft and Technical Solutions is an established Marine and Industrial Staffing Company with offices all over the country. They are currently in need of Advanced Shipfitters to join their team in Newport News, VA.

Responsibilities

  • Comprehend blueprints, sketches, weld symbols, material types, and templates.
  • Fabricate, align, and assemble structural parts such as plates, bulkheads, and frames.
  • Tack weld clips and brackets into place prior to permanent welding.
  • Erect, set, and makeup complex-shaped shell plates, decks, bulkheads, longitudinals, and trunks.
  • Install and replace hull inserts and penetrations and miscellaneous complex foundations.
  • Pass a skills test using the SMAW process with specified filler metal in both vertical up and overhead positions.

Requirements

  • 5 years of 1st class marine shipfitting experience.
  • Experience performing multi-pass tack welding.
  • Ability to use oxygen/propane burning and heating torches.
  • Must be able to read blueprints.
  • Must be able to work at heights and in confined spaces.
  • Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds on your own.
  • Pass a 10-Panel drug screen and background check.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Voluntary Life/Voluntary AD&D
  • Short-Term Disability
  • Long-Term Disability
  • Hospital Indemnity
  • Accident
  • Critical Illness
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Work location: In person
  • $120 per diem available for qualified candidates.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Voluntary Life/Voluntary AD&D
Short-Term Disability
Long-Term Disability
Hospital Indemnity
Accident
Critical Illness
401k
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How this job compares in Jacksonville, FL

Pay in context

At roughly $45/hr, this posting sits about 45% above the $31/hr median for welding jobs in Jacksonville, FL — toward the top of a $25–$32/hr middle band drawn from 17 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 82% 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 Jacksonville, FL

We're tracking 28 other active welding openings in Jacksonville, FL right now, from 17 different employers. 5 of them were added in the last week. Across Florida as a whole we're tracking 259 other active welding openings from 149 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Jacksonville, or widen the search to Florida.

Craft and Technical Solutions, LLC currently has 1 other opening live in Florida, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Florida at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Miami, FL (16), Welding Shop in Tampa, FL (14), and Honeywell Technologies (8). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Florida, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Jacksonville at $31/hr, Cape Canaveral at $29/hr, and Orlando at $29/hr. Jacksonville is among them.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for Stick. Stick (SMAW) burns a flux-coated consumable rod and needs no shielding gas, so it works in wind, rain, and on dirty or rusted steel. That tolerance for bad conditions keeps it the default for field, structural, and repair work.

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