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EASTERN SHIPBUILDING Shipfitter 1/C in Panama City, Florida
*JOB TITLE: Shipfitter 1^st^ Class *Number of Openings: 35 *Job Type: Full-time *Days/Hours: Monday thru Saturday (varies) - 50 to 55 hours per week **Location of Work: Panama City, FL
*INTENT AND FUNCTION OF JOB DESCRIPTION
This job description is a general description of the essential job functions and is not an employment contract. Position requirements, skills, and abilities included in this job description have been determined to be the minimal standards recommended for the position. Eastern Shipbuilding Group Inc. reserves the right to increase, modify, or reduce the position requirements, skills, and abilities included in this job description. The duties, responsibilities, and requirements described should not be interpreted as an all-inclusive or comprehensive listing of all activities, duties, or responsibilities that are associated with this job. All employees of Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. are expected to perform the duties as assigned by Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc., supervisory/management personnel, regardless of job title or routine job duties.
In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions. However, no accommodations will be made which may pose serious health or safety risks to the employee or others or which impose an undue hardship on Eastern Shipbuilding. The headings in this Job Description are for convenience only.
*POSITION SUMMARY Lay out and fabricate metal structural parts, such as plates, bulkheads, and frames. Brace them in position within the hull of ships for riveting or welding. May prepare molds and templates for fabrication of nonstandard parts according to specifications.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES *MAY INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: Because EasternShipbuilding is continually growing to meet the needs of our customers, and the essential duties and responsibilities may be different from those 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.
Layout 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.
Align parts in relation to each other, using jacks, turnbuckles, clips, wedges, and mauls.
Mark the location of holes to be drilled and install temporary fasteners to hold
the part in place for welding or riveting.
Prepare molds and templates for fabrication of nonstandard parts.
Install packing, gaskets, liners, and structural accessories and members, such as doors, hatches, brackets, and clips.
Tack weld clips and brackets in place prior to permanent welding.
Accountable for completion of daily work assignments
Flag cranes and pull angle iron as required.
Work with minimal supervision.
Perform other duties as ass