WELDER/STRUCTUR (ENTRY LEVEL)
Posted on: 12 Jul 2021
Newport News, VA
Job Description
Job Description
As a welder, you will first be qualified through the shipyards state of the art welding school. After completion of welding school, you will use a wide range of welding filler metals and welding processes to perform structural and/or pipe welds in all phases of ship construction. Welders perform tack, fillet, and full penetration welding on steel foundations and structural and pipe joints in production on aircraft carriers and submarines. This will be done using various welding processes including SMAW (Shielded Metal Arc Welding), FCAW (Flux Cored Arc Welding), GMAW (Gas Metal Arc Welding), and GTAW (Gas Tungsten Arc Welding). These welds are made in all positions using both manual and mechanized processes and will satisfy all nondestructive tests requirements (visual inspection, magnetic particle inspection, ultrasonic inspection, radiographic inspection). Welders will also receive additional training including certified visual inspection, fire watch, carbon arcing, and troubleshooting minor welding equipment problems. Watch this trainee video to learn more: Trainee Video
Basic Qualifications
Must be able to work any shift.
Must be able to take and pass a respirator fit test. This is a construction environment.
Candidates must able to work at extreme heights or small confined spaces.
Must be able to kneel, squat, crawl, bend, stoop, and climb.
Must be able to lift 40 lbs and work in various weather conditions within a shipyard environment.
Must be able to pass Physical Agility Test.
Preferred Qualifications
High school graduate or equivalent preferred
Huntington Ingalls Industries
Newport News, VA
Huntington Ingalls Industries is America’s largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of professional services to partners in government and industry. For more than a century, HII’s Newport News and Ingalls shipbuilding divisions in Virginia and Mississippi have built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder. HII’s Technical Solutions division provides a wide range of professional services through its Fleet Support, Mission Driven Innovative Solutions, Nuclear & Environmental, and Oil & Gas groups. Headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, HII employs more than 41,000 people operating both domestically and internationally.
Builder of the most complex ships in the world for 133 years at Newport News, and 81 years at Ingalls.
Sole builder of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, the world’s largest warships, and one of two builders constructing nuclear-powered submarines.
Exclusive provider of refueling services for nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, at the forefront of new ship technologies, specialized manufacturing capabilities and nuclear facility management.
Largest industrial employer in Virginia and Mississippi, and an employer in Louisiana and Alabama.
Largest supplier of U.S. Navy surface combatants—has built more than 70 percent of Navy fleet of warships.
Builder-of-record for 41 DDG 51 class Aegis guided missile destroyers.
Builder of record for the LHA 6 class large-deck amphibious ships and the sole builder of the Navy’s newest fleet of the San Antonio (LPD 17) class amphibious assault ships.
Builder-of-record for the flagship of the U.S. Coast Guard – the National Security Cutter.
Provider of a wide variety of products and services to the nuclear energy, oil and gas markets, including Department of Energy
Provider of mission critical and practical solutions to a wide variety of government and commercial customers worldwide through Technical Solutions.
Unrivalled experience in modular engineering and construction with innovative new solutions for upstream, midstream and downstream energy infrastructure.
Employs approximately 5,000 engineers and designers.
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IndustryAerospace and Defense
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No. of Employees40,000+
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