Advanced Shipfitter

We are currently in need of Advanced Shipfitters to join our team in Newport News, VA.

**$120 per diem available for qualified candidates**

Job Description:

• Ability to comprehend blueprints, sketches, weld symbols, material types, and templates.
• Fabricate, align, and assemble structural parts such as plates, bulkheads, and frames.
• Tack weld clips and brackets into place prior to permanent welding.
• Solid understanding of shipbuilding and/or manufacturing processes
• Must be able to demonstrate the ability to accurately perform layout, cutting with a torch, metric measuring, and structurally fitting processes.
• Erect, set, and makeup complex-shaped shell plates, decks, bulkheads, longitudinals, and trunks.
• Install and replace hull inserts and penetrations and miscellaneous complex foundations.
• Pass a skills test using the SMAW process with MIL-10718-M (A-5A) filler metal of MIL-E-22200/1 in both vertical up and overhead positions. One hour of practice, one hour vertical test, and one hour overhead test.

Job Requirements:

• 5 years of 1st class marine shipfitting experience.
• Experience performing multi-pass tack welding.
• Ability to use oxygen/propane burning and heating torches.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Must be able to read blueprints.
• Must be able to work at heights and in confined spaces.
• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds on your own.
• Pass a 10-Panel drug screen and background check.

CTS, LLC offers a comprehensive benefit packet to eligible employees. Eligible employees may enroll in:

• Health
• Dental
• Vision
• Voluntary Life/Voluntary AD&D
• Short-Term Disability
• Long-Term Disability
• Hospital Indemnity
• Accident
• Critical Illness
• 401k

Safety and responsible work practices are of paramount importance at CTS and are woven into the fabric of everything we do. We are committed to employee safety & development, the protection of the environment and the communities where we operate. We are ready to be a partner in your career success!

Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

Craft and Technical Solutions, LLC has a consistent policy that requires an online application to be completed before we can further consider you as an applicant for this position.

CTS is an EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability