Shipfitter / Welder

Job Description

Job Description

WELDER:

• The Welder operates safety equipment and uses safe work habits while performing his job function.

• The Welder welds components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.

• The Welder ignites torches or starts power supplies and strikes arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.

• The Welder detects faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notifies supervisors.

• The Welder clamps, holds, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolts component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.

• The Welder operates manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, and flux-cored arc, plasma arc, and shielded metal arc, resistance welding, and submerged arc welding.

• The Welder monitors the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts of warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of materials.

• The Welder examines work pieces for defects and measures work pieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.

• The Welder recognizes, set up, and operates hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.

• The Welder will lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.

SHIPFITTER:

1) Lays out and fabricates metal structural parts, such as plates, bulkheads, and frames, and braces them in position within hull of ship for riveting or welding: Lays out position of parts on metal, working from blueprints or templates and using scribe and hand tools. 2) Locates and marks reference lines, such as center, buttock, and frame lines. 3) Positions parts in hull of ship, assisted by RIGGER. 4) Aligns parts in relation to each other, using jacks, turnbuckles, clips, wedges, and mauls. 5) Marks location of holes to be drilled and installs temporary fasteners to hold part in place for welding or riveting. 6) Installs packing, gaskets, liners, and structural accessories and members, such as doors, hatches, brackets, and clips. 7) May prepare molds and templates for fabrication of nonstandard parts. 8) May tack weld clips and brackets in place prior to permanent welding. 9) May roll, bend, flange, cut, and shape plates, beams, and other heavy metal parts, using shop machinery, such as plate rolls, presses, bending brakes, and joggle machines.

• Must have reliable transpiration

• Must pass a pre-employment physical and drug test

• Must have own tools

•Must have 3-5 min years experience