Pipefitter, Trades ​/ Skilled Labor

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Display levels of quality, integrity, safety, respect, engagement and performance consistent with company values.
• Support trades team by working on active class vessels 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.
• Lay out and mark points and lines on pipe, tubing and parts or subassemblies using rule, square, scribe or templates.
• Cut, fit, assemble, bend, and position pipe, tubing and support structures to be brazed or welded into jigs, holding fixtures, and existing structure using hand and powered tools.
• Apply comprehensive understanding of production and processes, specialty trades functions and tools to provide technical support, install, operate, maintain, repair, and modify shipboard systems, integrated systems and related equipment at company, customer and/or field locations.
• Troubleshoot and diagnose malfunctions to eliminate problems in minimum time.
• Participate in special projects as required.
• 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.
• Provide guidance and work leadership to less-experienced welders. May serve as a group leader.

• Candidate must be able to demonstrate silver brazing 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 at least 2 years of related experience.
• Must be able to obtain medical clearance to wear a half-face respirator.
• Must have knowledge and experience with standard pipe fitting procedures, bending processes for tubing and pipe, testing installed piping systems and Class P‑3a and P‑3b silver brazing processes in accordance with NAVSEA Tech Pub. 7000 and NAVSEA Standard Item 009‑12.
• Must have 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.
• Must be able to work from blueprints, weldments, technical manuals, engineering sketches, charts and/or work orders as well as written and verbal instruction.
• Must be able to work outside of trade‑specific requirements as team projects require, assisting team members towards task completion.
• Must have knowledge of quality control steps and procedures. Must be able to follow and enforce safety procedures.
• Must have experience working in a team environment and be able to communicate effectively with others.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance and maintain clearance level throughout employment.
• Must be able to obtain base access credentials within 60 days of start date and maintain credentials throughout employment.
• Must be able to travel between 50% ‑ 75% when not assigned to local tasking.
• Must provide hand tools and trade‑specific PPE per trades designation.

• Current or prior silver brazing qualification certificates Grade III, IV and/or V preferred.
• Candidates with current or prior welding certificates applicable with MIL‑STD‑248 preferred.
• Candidates who are currently enrolled or have graduated from and/or completed a vocational school or skilled trades certificate program are preferred.
• Current Shipyard Competent Person Certification preferred.
• Current OSHA 10 Maritime Certificate a plus.

Must be able to lift, carry and transport heavy equipment and boxes. The exact weight requirements will be determined by the specific job, but no less than 30 lbs. Able to work on and climb…