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0-5 years of experience
- Studied under highly effective and professional leaders of shop 11 and developed the recognition of first time quality work and working within safety regulations.
- Completed my ATA from Olympic College in Bremerton with a 3.65 GPA.
- Awarded a 3 month early out of the Apprentice Program for good work ethic and recommendations from shop supervisors and other shop supervisors.
- Monitored and learned from established Planners regarding how Controlled Work Packages (CWP) and Formal Work Packages (FWP) were initiated and written. After a week of training and monitoring, began to write FWP’s for non-controlled jobs.
- Investigated what was needed through open communication with Ship’s Force.
- Researched blue prints and procedures regarding the needed repairs.
- Wrote and initiated FWP’s and sought guidance as needed.
0-5 years of experience
- Planned and managed project expenses related to 1050 ton crane operations, emphasizing First Time Quality
- Performed as “make-up foreman” assigning and delegating workloads for 10+ crew members
- Obtained “Confidential” security clearance and completed radiological training, permitting nuclear power plant entry
- Trained in waste management systems and industrial environmental regulation compliance
- Obtained and maintained confined space entry training throughout employment
- Acknowledged for accident free work (5-year award)
- Served as member of the Environmental Health & Safety Task Force (2009-2011) [Gold Award Winning]
0-5 years of experience
- Demonstrated clear understanding of blueprint interpretation.
- Selected appropriate grade metal and cut pieces using precise measurements to minimize rework while maintaining production schedule.
- Assembled pieces according to plan using spot welds in designated locations. Prepared surfaces for welders coming after.
- Maintained clean work environment and observed proper safety considerations daily to prevent injury and lost time.
6-10 years of experience
Shipfitter
- Supervised crews of up to 10 workers, delegated tasks, provided performance reviews
- Position, align, fit, and tack-weld parts to form complete units
- Verify conformance of work pieces to specifications, using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes
- Study engineering drawings and blue prints to determine material requirements and task sequences
- Performed problem solving to meet blueprint specifications
- Planned daily work schedule for crew
0-5 years of experience
- Fitted, formed, cut, and tack welded 1/4″​ – 2″ inch sheets, angles, brackets, and round and flat bars of steel using a torch, a welding machine, a welding line and rods, a hammer, a level, come-alongs, and wedges.
- Followed blueprint specifications and national, yard, and industry standards
- Determined logistics of work setup and execution
- Measured and managed materials
- Was responsible for the daily maintenance of personal inventory
0-5 years of experience
- Fabricated, assembled, and installed bulkheads, plates, stanchions, and other heavy steel structural parts within hull of ship.
- Established reference points on structural member or steel parts to indicate bending, cutting, drilling, and other machining necessary to fabricate steel into ship members.
- Performed required welding operations.
- Cleaned slag from welds using slag hammer and wire brush. Grinded welds smooth, using portable grinder.
10+ years of experience
- Inspected all completed assemblies to ensure compliance with specifications.
- Secured all required materials and prepared related drawings and blueprints.
- Converted blueprints into shop drawings for various sheet metal projects.
- Arranged for the safe transport of all prefabricated parts for assembly.
- Trained new employees as per the request of upper management.
- Determined project requirements assembly sequences and scope.
- Maintained records of all sheet metal fabrication projects and repairs.
- Maintained all phases of steel fab shop, panel and shell shops day-to-day operations.
0-5 years of experience
Proficient in reading blue prints, P&ID’s and mechanical drawings to lay out and fabricate metal structural parts.
- Skillful in aligning parts in relation to each other using jacks, clips, wedges, and mauls.
- Use of torch to cut and shape metal parts before installment.
- Tack weld clips and brackets in place prior to permanent welding
- Routine forklift operation.
0-5 years of experience
Responsible for assembly of ship compartments and the necessary fitting of materials to specifications
- Trained and certified for stick welding and basic fitting practices.
- Responsible for the use of various tools and equipment in the fabrication, assemble and erection of metal parts for the construction of modular units utilized in the various stages of the building of a marine vessel
- Layout, position, and secures parts and assemblies according to specifications, using straight edges, combination square, calipers, and rulers
- Tack-welds or weld component and assemblies, using electric, gas, arc, or welding equipment.
6-10 years of experience
- Construction of AHL oil tanker, including layout and fabrication of structural parts such as plates, decks, bulkheads, and frames, fitting metal parts in or on hull of ship, and welding of steel plates and angle iron
- Perform fit up duties using standard fitting aids such as wedges, gadgets, L-dogs and saddles
- Locate and mark reference lines such as centerlines, buttock lines and frame lines
- Work on panel line in addition to assisting on cutting table and operating computerized burning table
- Ensure that work sites are safe for workers and hot work, especially sites involving combustible materials
- Serve as relief supervisor directing 5 to 6 personnel as needed
- Operate 20-ton overhead cranes
0-5 years of experience
Lay out and fabricate metal structural parts, such as plates, bulkheads, and frames. Brace them in position within hull or ship for riveting or welding.
- Align parts in relation to each other, using jacks, turnbuckles, clips, wedges, and mauls.
- Install packing, gaskets, liners, and structural accessories and members, such as doors, hatches, brackets, and clips using blueprints.
- Tack weld clips and brackets in place prior to permanent welding.
- 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.
0-5 years of experience
Shipfitter
- Prep materials for installation
- Cut off attachments and grind flush
- Install small parts, foundations, and bulk heads
- Layout and mark up where bulk heads, foundations are going to be installed based on information in the blue prints.
- Mark up weld sizes after pieces have been installed
0-5 years of experience
- Worked as a 1st Class Shipfitter in the structural shop and at several shipyards in Hampton Roads as a contractor.
- My skill in interpreting blueprints and CAD drafting led to programming a Vulcan (Lockformer) CNC plasma cutting machine.
- Committed to safety at work and familiar with working at all times in various layers of PPE including, but not limited to, safety glasses, safety boots, flame resistant clothing, inductive respirators, burning/welding lenses, etc.
- Daily tasks included reading blueprints and work packages from all shops within Tecnico, including Pipe, Structural, Habitability (sheet metal and vent).
- Worked very closely with Production Engineering dept. in converting DOD spec drawings into accurate CNC cut programs.
0-5 years of experience
- Fit bulkheads / inserts / units using blueprints, jacks, come alongs, dogs, wedges
- Weld brackets, verticals, overhead, flat, ceramic, using SMAW / GMAW
- Proficient with a torch cutting / washing and using a track torch
- Air arcing, grinding and cutting discs
- Confident with tape measure standard or metric, use of speed square, levels, plum bob
- High reach certified, OSHA certified
0-5 years of experience
- 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 handtools.
- Locates and marks reference lines, such as center, buttock, and frame lines.
- Positions parts in hull of ship, assisted by RIGGER.
- Aligns parts in relation to each other, using jacks, turnbuckles, clips, wedges, and mauls.
- Marks location of holes to be drilled and installs temporary fasteners to hold part in place for welding or riveting.
0-5 years of experience
- Lay out and examine metal stock or workpieces to be processed to ensure that specifications are met.
- Tack-weld fitted parts together.
- 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.
- Locate and mark workpiece bending and cutting lines, allowing for stock thickness, machine and welding shrinkage, and other component specifications.
- Hammer, chip, and grind workpieces to cut, bend, and straighten metal.
0-5 years of experience
Typical job duties involve structural fitting and tack welding of various assembly and sub-assembly parts on the vehicle.
- Layout and fabricate metal structural parts such as plates, bulkheads, and angels.
- Tack weld clips and brackets, cut and bevel metals utilizing a torch.
- Maintains records, forms and logs as required.
- Perform other job related duties as assigned.
0-5 years of experience
Nuclear Shipfitter
- Fabricated submarine and aircraft carrier reactor compartments
- Proficient welding various metals, including but not limited to, aluminum, stainless steel and nickel copper
- Identified problems in quality and took corrective action
0-5 years of experience
BAE 1 st Class Shipfitter
- New construction building supply boats
- Worked with carbon steel on this job site
- Erected various parts of the ship to blue print specs utilizing various
- Repair of Navy ships, dry dock repairs
0-5 years of experience
- Trim, file, grind, deburr, buff, smooth surfaces, seams, joints of assembled parts, using hand tools and portable power tools.
- May prepare molds and templates for fabrication of parts.
- Install packing, gaskets, liners, structural accessories and members, such as doors, hatches, brackets, and clips.
- Drill and punch holes in metal, for screws, bolts, and rivets.
- May roll, bend, flange, cut, and shape plates, beams, and other heavy metal, aluminum, and stainless-steel parts.
6-10 years of experience
Shipfitter
- Installed tie-downs on flight deck aboard USS GUNSTON HALL(hy-80)
- Installed new platform on ships mast aboard USS OAK HILL
- Using blueprints, installed various foundations for electrical junction boxes
0-5 years of experience
- 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.
- Locates and marks reference lines, such as center, buttock, and frame lines.
- Positions parts in hull of ship, assisted by RIGGER.
- Aligns parts in relation to each other, using jacks, turnbuckles, clips, wedges, and mauls.
- Marks location of holes to be drilled and installs temporary fasteners to hold part in place for welding or riveting.
0-5 years of experience
Shipfitter
- Interpreted blue prints
- Laid out and installed structural members on-board naval vessels.
- Referenced technical drawing, ensuring proper material was being installed
- Operated oxygen acetylene torches and welding machines.
0-5 years of experience
- Reading blueprints to accomplish daily shipbuilding tasks
- Lay out and fabricate metal structural parts such as frames, bulkheads ad plates
- Compute layout dimensions, and determined marked reference points on metal stock or workpieces
0-5 years of experience
- Plastic fabricator and shipfitter onboard the USS Olympia and USS Hawaii aligning parts in relation to each other using jacks, turnbuckles, clips, and wedges also preparing molds and templates for fabrication and nonstandard parts modified and repaired plastic rubber and fiberglass using techniques such as casting laminating thermofoaming and also working with terrazzo vinyl floor coverings sound damping special hull treatment woid plexigals powder coatings and plastisol. Working in the shop cutting measuring and cutting wood working in the tanks removing sound damping tile
- Cutting and working with metal and measuring metal that needs cut out
- Working with torch cutter
- Firewatch
0-5 years of experience
Shipfitter
- Laid out, fabricated and welded mild and stainless steel material to form components
- Utilized a variety of tools, equipment and machinery
- Examined, checked and verified conformance to specifications of blueprints
0-5 years of experience
- Read blue prints and fabricate the ship parts accordingly
- Outfitted the boat with vinyl according to design
- Collaborated with employees in other departments
0-5 years of experience
Quality Assurance/Hull Inspector
- Thorough knowledge of principles, concepts, and methodology related to welding and pipefitting quality assurance programs, and considerable skill in applying this knowledge to the planning and accomplishment of a variety of difficult and complex work assignments
- As Non Destructive Test Level II Inspector, perform all NDT daily, weekly and monthly tasks in accordance to established procedures
- Review and determine acceptance of all products for meeting NDT requirements
- Ensure compliance with technical requirements for reliability and quality conformance
- Schedule, conduct, observe, record, and submit testing and inspection results for work certification
- Responsible for the safe conduct of in-process and final operational checkpoints which requires not only an understanding of the technical aspect of the test, but also all required safety practices, undistracted situational awareness and complete focus on the task
- Demonstrate a great eye for detail and a willingness to embrace and endorse strict processes and policies and the ability to accurately document the completion of all tests and inspections in a timely manner
- Possess a thorough understanding of applicable welding and inspection requirements, military standards, basic work specification’s and any applicable drawings or technical publications; clearly interpreting and applying the guidance of these reference on the job site
- Ensure that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with industry/customer requirements
6-10 years of experience
- Repair, modify, install and dismantle various shipboard hulls, bulkheads or decks. Designs and fabricates fixtures and jigs.
- Install and remove all various types plate work.
- Tack weld, install, remove, burn, cut and wash down plate and steel. (using torch)
- Use various equipment and tools to assist Shipfitter.
0-5 years of experience
- Use tape measure to measure material for cutting and to ascertain bulkheads are lined up within tolerance
- Use oxyacetylene cutting torch to cut material to length, remove bad welds from decks, ceilings, and walls if needed.
- Use arc welder to weld material in place
- When needed, Fire watch for overhead welding, arc gouging, acetylene torch cutting or other jobs that produce sparks
0-5 years of experience
- Fit and align fabricated parts to be welded or assembled.
- Plan and develop layouts from blueprints and templates, applying knowledge of trigonometry, design, effects of heat, and properties of metals.
- Brace parts in position within hulls or ships for tacking or welding.
- Mark curves, lines, holes, dimensions, and welding symbols onto workpieces, using scribes, soapstones, punches, and hand drills.
- Install doors, hatches, brackets, and clips.
- Use an assortment of hand tools including a gas torch and grinder to fabricate material to meet size specifications of blueprints.
- Study blueprints to determine locations, relationships, or dimensions of parts.
- Plan locations and sequences of cutting, drilling, bending, rolling, punching, and welding operations.
0-5 years of experience
Connected lines, leads, hoses from hand torch to oxygen and fuel gas
- Used grinders, needle guns to clean the surface, along with setting up welding machine
- Build contaminates to safe working area
- Worked in shop welded equipment to take out to jobsites
6-10 years of experience
- Performed subassembly and tacking of various ship components such as shell plates, frames, watertight and non water-tight bulkheads, deck beams, superstructures, foundations, ladders, pipe rails, etc
- Erecting hull components on site in accordance with centerline, base lines, buttock lines, and water lines, such as struts, shaft tubes, foundations, and other hull appendages.
- Performing flame cutting with plasma cutting hand-cutting tools and performing welding using metallic arc, and gas metal arc processes to perform maintained or repair of undersea vessels or surface ships.
- Preparing pressure deficiencies for repair.
- Understands and interprets a variety of engineering documents and instructions (i.e. blueprints, work packages, etc..).
- Operated forklifts, manlift, and other heavy lifting equipment.
- Fabricated structural components for Trident Class Submarines.
- Completed work assignments while demonstrating appropriate work procedures and techniques.
- Tool’s utilized include, but not limited to: grinders, squares, levels, laser operated measuring equipment, tape measure, scales, calipers, hammer, screwdrivers, jigs, shears, tube benders, tube notches, presses, shrinkers, stretchers, oxy acetylene torch, band saw, drill press, reciprocating saw, laser cutting equipment and water jet, welding equipment etc
- Utilized safe work practices and personal protective equipment at all times.
6-10 years of experience
- Read, interpret, plan, and execute from drawings and procedures
- Measure, cut, grind, fit, align, and tack weld parts to the large sub-assemblies and super lifts that form the structural body of the ship
- Build in-place all interior structures, hatches, doors, bulkheads, etc., to complete all the steel work in the ship
- Apply skills in shops, platens, dry-docks and onboard ships in support of new construction, ship repair, and ship overhauls
- Working knowledge of hazardous materials and byproducts such as hexavalent chromium
- Ability to stick, MIG, and Flux Core weld
- NQC Qualified – Nuclear Quality Control
- Current Confidential Security Clearance, cleared up to Secret Security Clearance
0-5 years of experience
- Lay out and fabricate 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.
- Locate and mark reference lines, such as center, buttock, and frame lines.
- Position parts in hull of ship, assisted by RIGGER.
- Align parts in relation to each other, using jacks, turnbuckles, clips, wedges, and mauls.
- Mark location of holes to be drilled and installs temporary fasteners to hold part in place for welding or riveting.
- Install packing, gaskets, liners, and structural accessories and members, such as doors, hatches, brackets, and clips.
- Prepare molds and templates for fabrication of nonstandard parts.
- Tack weld clips and brackets in place prior to permanent welding.
- 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 machine
10+ years of experience
Shipfitter
- Efficiently and productively executed lay outs from blueprints.
- Fit and tack welded specified tasks.
- Completed jobs to military specifications with minuscule “do over’s.”
- Cleanly cut and burned required materials for production.
- Ground materials to clean finish when needed.
- Installed inserts on shell of ships.
- Fit butt joints.
- Installed machinery foundations.
- Performed layout and fitting of bulkheads, T-bars, and angles.
- Supervisor for four years.
6-10 years of experience
X-11 Shipfitter
- Work packages
- Reading blueprints
- Burning /cutting with torch
- Welding
0-5 years of experience
- Lay out and fabricate structural metals
- Burning
- Tacking
- Reading of blue prints
- Minor washing
- Use of basic hand tools
0-5 years of experience
- 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. Ability to read and work from blueprints.
- Repaired and insulated pipes on vessel using temp mats, rubber, wool, and fiberglass cloth. Fabricated and installed pads for piping systems. Insulated ceilings, bulkheads, and industrial equipment.
- Construct controllers and panels, using power drills, drill presses, taps, saws and punches. Strip insulation from wire ends, using wire stripping pliers, and attach wires to terminals for subsequent soldering.
0-5 years of experience
- Sheet metal fabrication shop work.
- Assemble structural piece parts.
- Installing structure outside on the ship.
- Cutting and washing panels.
- Reinstalling flat bars, welding the new piece installed.
- Laying out for fitting and welding.
- Installing frame, T-bean, flat bars.
- Fabricates foundations.
0-5 years of experience
- Supervising production
- Ship Fitting
- Welding Stick, Mig Steel/Aluminum
- Torch Burning
- Blueprint Layout
0-5 years of experience
- Fit and align fabricated parts to be welded or assembled
- Brace parts in position within hulls or ships for riveting or welding
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Getting Information
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
- Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment
- Thinking Creatively
- Experience with: Drafting dividers, Gauge block sets, Hand drills, Rulers, Scribes, Stick welding machines
0-5 years of experience
- Ship repair
- Burning
- Washing
- Grinding
- Zinks
- Doublers
- Stick and Flux Core Welding
- Filet Welds
0-5 years of experience
- New construction of ships
- Fabricate and Weld
- Forklift Operator
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