Job Description

Hiring Aluminum Welders *Shipyard*

Shipyard Experience is required. Housing assistance is available.

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Position Summary:

• Lay out, fit, and weld fabricated, cast, and forged components to assemble structural forms such as machinery frames, tanks, pressure vessels, furnace shells, and building and bridge parts according to specifications.
• Select equipment and plans layout, assembly, and welding.
• Work with other crafts as instructed by supervision.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES MAY INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: Because the shipyard is continually growing to meet the needs of 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.
• Monitor the working environment for compliance with quality, safety, environmental, and health regulations.
• Weld components in the flat, horizontal, vertical, and overhead positions.
• Fit, tack, and weld component parts in position, and examine welds for adherence to specifications.
• Examine weld for bead size and other specifications.
• Inspect grooves, angles, or gap allowances, using micrometer, caliper, and precision measuring instruments.
• Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemble them according to specifications.
• Set up equipment and weld parts, using arc, gas-shielded arc, submerged arc, or gas welding equipment.
• Produce high-quality welds, including water-tight penetrations with a variety of materials including weld steel, stainless, and aluminum.
• Work with minimal supervision.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: May indirectly supervise and/or train subordinates.

Job Requirements:

Experience:

• One to three years of experience as a flux core arc welder is desired.
• Requires working knowledge of materials, methods, and the appropriate work processes and techniques for fitting and welding steel and other materials.
• Requires knowledge of ship terminology, welding symbols, safety, OSHA, and ABS regulations. Requires experience and knowledge of gouging, mirror welding, mig, and stick welding; experience with carbon, stainless steel, and aluminum welding.
• Must pass ABS American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) welding tests to be ABS Certified.

Skills:

• Ability to read and comprehend written, oral, or diagram forms or plans.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to read and understand blueprints.
• Knowledge of safe operation and use of hand and power tools.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from supervisors and employees.
• 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 consciousness, and multitasking.
• Maintain the confidential integrity of details pertaining to the shipyard.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• 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 the 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.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• 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.

Labor One Staffing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.

We're always hiring Great people for our projects. We have work available for Skilled Craft - Welders, Fitters, Electricians, Machinists, Blaster Painters, Fire Watch General Labor, Etc. in Shipyards on both coasts and along the Gulf Coast region.We also have General Labor jobs available in Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia and California.

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