Oversees all functions pertaining to the Ship Fit department. Plans, directs, or coordinates the work activities and resources in the Ship Fit department necessary for new construction and repairs in accordance with cost, quality, and quantity specifications. Fabricate, lay out, position, align, and fit parts of structural metal products.
Supervises (including hiring, orienting, training, evaluating, and discharging) the shipfitters and shipfitter helpers to ensure they receive the training and support required for optimal performance. Maintains up-to-date supervision records on each employee. Completes all staff evaluations and any required staff disciplinary actions as requested and on time. Ensures that the selection of employees is administered without regard to race, religion, color, veteran’s status, national origin, citizenship, sex, age, or non-job-related disability and consistent with Affirmative Action objectives and EEO laws. Responsible for ensuring excellent customer service and performance by subordinate staff.
Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are as follows: ship fit components of the ship either repair or new builds are completed on time, to specifications, and within scope of the project 100% of the time; ensures staffing levels are adequate to meet the deadlines; follows up with team members to ensure that they have proper training and tools to complete their jobs; completes all training assigned on time 100% of the time; and ensures that team has completed their training 95% of the time.
Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Essential Functions Statement(s)
- Directs and coordinate ship fit department of St. Johns Ship Building's projects.
- Meets or exceeds the production deadlines for the ship fit shop.
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Ensures that the ship fit shop budget is meets or exceeds goals.
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Review ship fit production schedules and production orders to make decisions concerning inventory requirements, work procedures, and duty assignments, considering budgetary limitations and time constraints.
- Review operations and confer with technical or executive staff to resolve production or employee problems.
- 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.
- Verify conformance of work pieces to specifications, using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes.
- Tack-weld fitted parts together.
- Lay out and examine metal stock or work pieces to be processed to ensure that specifications are met.
- Align and fit parts according to specifications, using jacks, turnbuckles, wedges, drift pins, pry bars, and hammers.
- Locate and mark work piece bending and cutting lines, allowing for stock thickness, machine and welding shrinkage, and other component specifications.
- Position or tighten braces, jacks, clamps, ropes, bolt straps, or bolt parts in position for welding or riveting.
- Study engineering drawings and blueprints to determine materials requirements and task sequences.
- Move parts into position, manually or with hoists or cranes.
- Set up and operate fabricating machines, such as brakes, rolls, shears, flame cutters, grinders, and drill presses, to bend, cut, form, punch, drill, or otherwise form and assemble metal components.
- Hammer, chip, and grind work pieces to cut, bend, and straighten metal.
- Smooth work piece edges and fix taps, tubes, and valves.
- Design and construct templates and fixtures, using hand tools.
- Straighten warped or bent parts, using sledges, hand torches, straightening presses, or bulldozers.
- Mark reference points onto floors or face blocks and transpose them to work pieces, using measuring devices, squares, chalk, and soapstone.
- Set up face blocks, jigs, and fixtures.
- Remove high spots and cut bevels, using hand files, portable grinders, and cutting torches.
- Direct welders to build up low spots or short pieces with weld.
- Lift or move materials and finished products, using large cranes.
- Heat-treat parts, using acetylene torches.
- Preheat work pieces to make them malleable, using hand torches or furnaces.
- Install boilers, containers, and other structures.
- Erect ladders and scaffolding to fit together large assemblies.
- And miscellaneous duties as may be required.
- Accuracy - Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
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Applied Learning - Ability to participate in needed learning activities in a way that makes the most of the learning experience.
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Detail Oriented - Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.
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Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
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Resource Management (People & Equipment) - Ability to obtain and appropriate the proper usage of equipment, facilities, materials, as well as personnel.
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Responsible - Ability to be held accountable or answerable for one’s conduct.
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Safety Awareness - Ability to identify and correct conditions that affect employee safety.
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Technical Aptitude - Ability to comprehend complex technical topics and specialized information.
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Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
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Reliability - The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.
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Communication, Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
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Energetic - Ability to work at a sustained pace and produce quality work.
Education: High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED)
Experience: Five or more years related experience in a ship fit department. Prefer experience working in a shipyard. Two or more years of experience supervising subordinate staff, prefer experience supervising trade staff.
Computer Skills
General Computer Skills, Microsoft Office
Physical Demands
Lift/Carry
Handling / Fingering
C (Constantly)
Reach Outward
C (Constantly)
Reach Above Shoulder
C (Constantly)
Squat or Kneel
C (Constantly)
10 lbs or less
F (Frequently)
51-100 lbs
N (Not Applicable)
Over 100 lbs
N (Not Applicable)
12 lbs or less
F (Frequently)
41-100 lbs
F (Frequently)
N (Not Applicable)
Activity is not applicable to this occupation.
O (Occasionally)
Occupation requires this activity up to 33% of the time (0 - 2.5+ hrs/day)
F (Frequently)
Occupation requires this activity from 33% - 66% of the time (2.5 - 5.5+ hrs/day)
C (Constantly)
Occupation requires this activity more than 66% of the time (5.5+ hrs/day)
Other Physical Requirements
Vision (Near, Distance, Peripheral, Depth Perception)
Sense of Sound (hear alarms and radios)
Sense of Touch
Ability to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (hard hats, safety glasses, steel toed shoes, shields, hoods, sleeves, jackets)
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Outdoor Environment, Excessive Heat, Excessive Cold
The Company has reviewed this job description to ensure that essential functions and basic duties have been included. It is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. This document does not represent a contract of employment, and the Company reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as the Company may deem appropriate.
