Marine Sheet Metal Layout and Installation Technician (First-Class)

Make Precision Fit the Standard

Join a team that turns drawings into working shipboard systems. As a first-class marine sheet metal professional, you’ll be the go-to for precise layout, clean fabrication, and dependable installation across foundations, ventilation, bulkheads, and shipboard furniture.

Your Impact

• Transform complex assembly drawings and blueprints—complete with weld symbols, material specs, and datum/reference lines—into accurate layouts
• Fabricate and assemble piece parts that meet specification and quality standards
• Install ventilation systems, structural foundations, bulkheads, and outfitting components aboard ship
• Apply OSHA shipbuilding safety practices consistently in a physically demanding environment

Tools You’ll Handle

• Hand tools: electric drills, grinders, rivet guns
• Shop equipment: drill press, press brake (press break), shears

What You Bring

• Minimum 3 years experience as a first-class Sheet Metal Worker in shipboard installation and sheet metal fabrication shop work
• Fluency with fractional and decimal measurements; confident ruler use
• Proven ability to lay out (layoff) and assemble piece parts to spec
• Experience thriving in physically intensive shipyard settings
• Familiarity with OSHA requirements for the shipbuilding industry

Preferred & Transferable Experience

• Marine experience preferred
• Aircraft, industrial, or commercial sheet metal backgrounds are fully applicable

Bonus Skills

• Rigger/material handling
• Mobile equipment operation (JLG, scissor lift, etc.)