SHEET METAL WORKER (AIRCRAFT)
Naval Air Systems Command
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METAL FORGING WORKER
U.S. Pacific Fleet
Department of the Navy
Location
Bremerton, Washington
Salary
$33.36 - $43.34
per hour
Type
Full Time
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January 26, 2026
Job Description
Summary
This job involves shaping and treating metal parts like propellers and castings for naval ships using heavy machinery such as hammers, furnaces, and cranes in a production shop.
Workers heat materials to precise temperatures, operate equipment safely, and perform basic maintenance to ensure high-quality results.
It's a good fit for hands-on individuals with practical experience in metalworking who can work independently in a team-oriented military environment.
Key Requirements
- Ability to perform metal forging tasks without more than normal supervision (screen-out element)
- Experience operating hammers, annealing furnaces, and 5-to-50-ton cranes
- Skill in controlling heating rates and temperatures using visual cues, pyrometers, and charts
- Knowledge of heating and treating metals like bars, billets, ingots, forgings, castings, weldments, and propellers
- Ability to clean, adjust, and make minor repairs to forging and heating equipment
- Familiarity with electric, gas, and oil-fired furnaces for annealing, stress relieving, and heat treating
- Relevant paid or unpaid experience in trades and labor occupations, including volunteer work
Full Job Description
You will serve as a Metal Forger Worker in the Production Resources Department of PSNS and IMF.
Although a specific length of time and experience is not required for most trade and labor occupations, you must show through experience and training that you possess the quality level of knowledge and skill necessary to perform the duties of the position at the level for which you are applying.
Qualification requirements emphasis is on quality of experience, not necessarily the length of time.
Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the job elements and screen out listed below.
This job has a screen-out element which will be used to determine minimum eligibility for this job.
Applicants who do not receive a minimum of two points on the screen-out element(s) will be found ineligible.
The Screen-out Element for this position is: Ability To Do The Work Without More Than Normal Supervision.
Applicants must meet the requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Job Qualification Handbook for Trades and Labor Occupations.
Additional qualification information can be found at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/federal-wage-system-qualifications/#url=List-of-Approved-Job-Elements Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).
Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. Major Duties:
- You will operate hammers and annealing furnaces with forgings, castings, weldments, and propellers using 5-to-50-ton cranes.
- You will control the heating rate and holding temperature by visual color, and programmed charts and pyrometers.
- You will clean, adjust, and make minor repairs to the equipment.
- You will heat bars, billets and ingots for forging and anneals, stress relieves and heat treats forgings, castings, weldments, propellers, etc., using electric, gas and oil-fired furnaces.
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