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Job Title: Shipfitter

Job Description

As a Shipfitter, you will lay out and fabricate metal structural parts such as plates, bulkheads, frames, and braces within the hull of a ship for riveting or welding. You will work from blueprints or templates, using scribe and hand tools to locate and mark reference lines like center, buttock, and frame lines. Your role will include positioning parts within the ship hull, aligning them using tools such as jacks, turnbuckles, clips, wedges, and mauls. You will mark the location of holes to be drilled, install temporary fasteners, and install packing, gaskets, liners, and structural accessories and members like doors, hatches, brackets, and clips. The role may also involve preparing molds and templates for nonstandard parts, tack welding clips and brackets, and rolling, bending, flanging, cutting, and shaping plates, beams, and other heavy metal parts.

Responsibilities

+ Lay out and fabricate metal structural parts within the hull of a ship.

+ Position and align parts using tools such as jacks, turnbuckles, clips, wedges, and mauls.

+ Mark reference lines and the location of holes to be drilled.

+ Install packing, gaskets, liners, and structural accessories.

+ Prepare molds and templates for nonstandard parts.

+ Tack weld clips and brackets prior to permanent welding.

+ Roll, bend, flange, cut, and shape heavy metal parts.

Essential Skills

+ Minimum of 3 years of experience as a Shipfitter.

+ Ability to read and work from blueprints.

+ Proficiency in using hand tools and equipment such as torches and plasma cutters.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

+ 1st class requires 7 years as a marine electrician with a stable job history.

+ 2nd class requires 3-4 years of experience.

+ Ability to read and interpret drawings and blueprints.

Why Work Here?

Join a local shipyard for a full-time assignment where you can apply your shipfitting expertise. Benefit from a stable position within a supportive team environment, offering opportunities for skill development and professional growth.

Work Environment

Work within a naval base, requiring DBIDS working access. Use a range of tools provided, including framing squares, hammers, vice grips, and safety equipment. Embrace a hands-on role, adhering to safety protocols and wearing protective gear such as hard hats, safety glasses, monoglasses, face shields, work gloves, and steel toe shoes.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Norfolk, Virginia.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $18.00 - $25.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job

classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be

subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits

available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision

• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital

• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available

• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)

• Short and long-term disability

• Health Spending Account (HSA)

• Transportation benefits

• Employee Assistance Program

• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Norfolk,VA.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Jun 13, 2025.

About Aerotek:

We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.

Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.