SHIPFITTERS
il y a 25 jours
Chesapeake
Tidewater Staffing is currently seeking Shipfitters for work in various local shipyards. Shipfitter Job Summary: The Shipfitter must possess knowledge, skills, and abilities sufficient to assemble, modify, layout, fabricate, repair, and install plates, shapes, and/or pipe to be used to form a part of a structural assembly in connection with ship alteration and repair. Shipfitters with 3 or more years of experience laying out, positioning, aligning, and fitting parts of structural metal products with the use of regular supervision while always adhering to industry safety standards. Essential Functions: \n\n • Positions align, fit, and welds parts to form complete units or subunits, following blueprints and layout specifications, and using jigs, welding torches, and hand tools.\n, • Verifies conformance of workpieces to specifications, using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes.\n, • Tack-welds fitted parts together.\n, • Lays out and examines metal stock or workpieces to be processed to ensure that specifications are met.\n, • Aligns and fits parts according to specifications, using jacks, turnbuckles, wedges, drift pins, pry bars, and hammers.\n, • Locates and marks work-piece bending and cutting lines, allowing for stock thickness, machine and welding shrinkage, and other component specifications.\n, • Positions or tightens braces, jacks, clamps, ropes, bolt straps, or bolt parts in position for welding or riveting.\n, • Studies engineering drawings and blueprints to determine materials requirements and task sequences.\n, • Moves parts into position, manually or with hoists or cranes.\n, • 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.\n, • Performs other duties as assigned.\n\n Knowledge, Skills, Abilities: \n\n • Measures, templates, cuts, and grinds components for foundations and other structural members.\n, • Efficient use of material to prevent waste.\n, • Advanced use of cutting equipment (Plasma Cutter and Oxy/Fuel Torch).\n, • Advanced reading, and interpreting of blueprints (successful identification of material types, parts, references, applicable views/details).\n, • Advanced use of temporary attachments.\n, • Advanced understanding of weld joint design (full and partial penetration welds, chamfers, and bevels).\n, • Advanced skill in the installation and removal of fasteners and rivets.\n, • Correctly identifies base material types and thicknesses.\n, • Advanced level tack welder in common shipboard positions (overhead, vertical, horizontal).\n, • Intermediate tack welding in uncommon/ limited access positions (mirror, confined, heavy interferences)\n, • Expert with an Advanced understanding of fitting operations (coping, straightening, carbon arcing).\n, • Advanced knowledge of Erect and Set principles (identification/use of extra material, set to lines, etc.)\n, • Advanced understanding of material fabrication.\n, • Recognizes tooling needs (Which tool to use for which application).\n, • Able to solve job issues without the need for Supervisory approval.\n, • Ability to read fit-up/alignments measuring devices (rulers/tape, levels, bobs, squares, etc.)\n, • Advanced use of power tools (grinders, reciprocating saws, drills, etc.)\n, • Advanced use of hand tools (hammers, punches, clamps, etc.)\n, • Correct setup of tools prior to use (running lines, drop tests, etc.)\n, • Knowledge of power tool safety, (correctly identifying kick direction and pinch points).\n, • Advanced use of positioning equipment (dogs/wedges, rams, saddles).\n, • Advanced knowledge of shipbuilding standards (009-12, W1689).\n, • Advanced knowledge of inspection standards (009-25, 009-06).\n, • Adheres to fire safety principles (hot work tickets, positioning fire watches, 35’ rule, etc.)\n, • Ability to instruct others to navigate onboard vessels to find work areas/backsides of work areas.\n, • Advanced knowledge of industry safety standards/training.\n, • Adheres to industry safety standards.\n, • Requires occasional supervision to accomplish work.\n