Welder Training
Posted on: 25 Sep 2021
Newport News, VA
Job Description
Job Description
Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has partnered with the Department of Defense (DOD) to offer a FREE 16-week training opportunity at Danville Community College in Danville, VA. Classes start on November 1, 2021. This is an unpaid opportunity, however the training and lodging/housing in Danville, VA will be provided and paid for by a grant from the Department of Defense. All housing and utilities for this training is covered by the program, and all participants will be housed in downtown Danville’s River district. Participants will be responsible for all other living expenses including meals, etc.
Participants that successfully complete the 16-week/600 hour training program will be eligible to start work with the Welding department at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, VA as a Welder earning nearly $20 per hour and will receive a $2500 sign-on bonus. All participants will be required to apply and successfully complete the Newport News Shipbuilding hiring process.
The 16-week/600 hour training program will cover Weld Safety as well as OSHA 10 training. Throughout the course you will learn and build your skills in MIG, TIG, and Flux-Core welding. 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, and carbon arcing, and troubleshooting minor welding equipment problems.
Basic Qualifications
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 must take and pass a respirator fit test. Must be able to work assigned shift as production needs. Must be able to pass Work Keys testing requirements and Physical Agility Test.
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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