Ship Fitters

Responsibilities

• Verify conformance of work pieces to specifications, using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes.
• Align and fit parts according to specifications, using jacks, turnbuckles, wedges, drift pins, pry bars, and hammers.
• Position, align, fit, and weld parts to form complete units or subunits, following blueprints and layout specifications, and using jigs, welding torches, and hand tools.
• Study engineering drawings and blueprints to determine materials requirements and task sequences.
• Set up and operate fabricating machines.
• Lay out and examine metal stock or work pieces to be processed to ensure that specifications are met.
• Tack-weld fitted parts together.
• Lift or move materials and finished products, using large cranes.
• Mark reference points onto floors or face blocks and transpose them to work pieces, using measuring devices, squares, chalk, and soapstone.
• Set up face blocks, jigs, and fixtures.
• Position or tighten braces, jacks, clamps, ropes, or bolt straps, or bolt parts in position for welding or riveting.
• Locate and mark workpiece bending and cutting lines, allowing for stock thickness, machine and welding shrinkage, and other component specifications.
• Straighten warped or bent parts, using sledges, hand torches, straightening presses, or bulldozers.
• Smooth workpiece edges and fix taps, tubes, and valves.
• Preheat work pieces to make them malleable, using hand torches or furnaces.
• Wash and Cut with a torch.

FREE On Site BULK HOUSING Available

Working 7-12's ;
Day and Night Shifts Available