Marine Welder

Marine Welder - 26332

Join the Marine Welder role at HII.

$44,080.00/yr - $54,000.00/yr

• Requisition Number: 26332
• Required Travel: 51 - 75%
• Employment Type:
  
  Full Time/Hourly/Non-Exempt
• Anticipated Salary Range: $44,080.00 – $54,000.00
• Security Clearance:
  Ability to Obtain
• Level of
  
  Experience:
  
  Mid

Our team of more than 7,000 professionals worldwide delivers all‑domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe. Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers. Find the role that’s right for you.

• Display levels of quality, integrity, safety, respect, engagement, and performance consistent with company values.
• Support trades team by working on active class surface ships to assist with alterations and installations for fleet modernization.
• Perform all work in accordance with established quality and safety procedures.
• Perform a variety of simple and complicated tasks, both routine and non‑routine, including those outside of specialty, related to shipboard maintenance to meet standards on various contracts at company, customer and/or field locations.
• Work from blueprints, engineering sketches, charts, or work orders.
• Install, operate, maintain, repair, and modify structural and piping elements and equipment.
• Lay out and mark points and lines on parts or subassemblies using rule, square, scribe or templates.
• Cut, fit, assemble, and position pieces to be welded into jigs, holding fixtures, and existing structure using hand and powered tools.
• Troubleshoot and diagnose malfunctions to eliminate problems in minimum time.
• Participate in special projects as required.
• Apply comprehensive understanding of appropriate welding processes and production to join, surface, fabricate, or repair parts of metal or other weld‑able materials toward completion of assignments.
• Develop and use technical documents including controlled work packages, formal work processes and procedures, test documents, reports and task or trip reports.
• Inspect completed work for conformance to specifications.
• Maintain effective customer communications and relations. May provide onsite training of customer support personnel.
• Provide guidance and work leadership to less‑experienced welders. May serve as a group leader.

• Demonstrate welding ability on needed processes through qualification testing and pass with a satisfactory grade from our Quality Assurance Team within the first three weeks from start date for continued employment.
• High School education or Trade School or equivalent, and 4 years of related experience. Prefer technical/professional certifications.
• Obtain medical clearance to wear a half‑face respirator.
• Experience with stick welding (SMAW) process in all positions from 2G to 6G for Carbon and Stainless Steel.
• Experience with gas metal arc welding (GMAW) process in all positions from 2G to 6G for Aluminum.
• Strong knowledge of reading and interpreting drawings, blueprints, weldments, technical manuals, engineering sketches, charts and/or work orders as well as written and verbal instruction for products to be fabricated and/or installed.
• Capable of using various measuring instruments.
• Knowledge of quality control steps and procedures.
• Adhere to safety and quality procedures set forth by HII and host facilities.
• Experience working in a team environment.
• Obtain and maintain a DoD secret security clearance and maintain clearance level throughout employment.
• Obtain base access credentials within 60 days of start date and maintain credentials throughout employment.
• Travel between 50% – 75% when not assigned to local tasking.
• Provide hand tools per trades designation.

• Experience/knowledge in gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) and/or flux cored arc welding (FCAW) processes/positions preferred.
• Current or prior welding certificates applicable with MIL‑STD‑248 preferred.
• Combination pipe and structural welders with experience on marine vessels and associated systems preferred.
• Candidates with shipfitting experience are…