Shipfitter 3​/C

Job Title

Under general supervision, perform normal craft-specific duties as required to support steel construction and repairs on marine vessels.

Because Eastern Shipbuilding is continually growing to meet the needs of our customers, the essential duties and responsibilities may be different than described.

• Regular attendance at work and the ability to work flexible hours, including overtime, weekends and holidays.
• Comply with company, Federal, State, and local safety, ethics, and environmental rules, regulations and policies while performing duties.
• May assist in aligning parts in relation to each other, using jacks, turnbuckles, clips, wedges, and mauls.
• May assist in installing packing, gaskets, liners, and structural accessories and members, such as doors, hatches, brackets, and clips.
• Tack weld clips and brackets in place prior to permanent welding.
• Lay out parts, bulkheads, and frames.
• Loft parts from a table of offsets.
• Build bulkheads and decks with assistance from supervisor.
• Flag cranes and be able to perform some rigging of small lifts and bulkheads.
• Perform some general layout work.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Education/

Experience:

High school diploma or GED equivalent, plus one year shipfitting experience desired. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. Knowledge of materials, methods, and the appropriate tools to construct marine vessels. Must be able to cut and burn with a torch. Tack weld with  stainless rod, mig, and aluminum. Requires knowledge of ship terminology, safety, and OSHA regulations.

Skills:

Ability to read and comprehend written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to read and understand simple blueprints. Knowledge of safe operation and use of hand and power tools. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure. Ability to read a tape measure.

Behavioral Attributes:
Integrity, ethics, flexibility/adaptability, initiative, interpersonal skills, attention to detail, safety conscious, and multi-tasking. Maintain the confidential integrity of details pertaining to Eastern Shipbuilding Group.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing throughout the workday. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The employee must be physically and medically qualified to wear all required personal protective equipment, as prescribed under Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards. The employee must be able to work above ground at heights of a minimum of 50 feet aloft and/or working from scaffolding and/or man-lifts while working with machinery;

in confined spaces and withstand extreme heat and cold in an outside climate or confined space.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The employee may be exposed to the risk of electrical shock, moving mechanical parts, vibration, fumes, airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, continual loud noise, and other hazards found in a heavy industrial shipyard environment. Rigorous compliance with safety procedures, policies, and personal safety equipment requirements is therefore mandatory.

We are equal opportunity/affirmative action employers, committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under state or local law.