SHIPFITTER (FLANGE TURNER)

Full Job Description

You will serve as a SHIPFITTER (FLANGE TURNER) in the PRODUCTION RESOURCES DEPARTMENT (code 900) of PEARL HARBOR NSY 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 OF THE POSITION 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 cut, shape, and straighten hot and cold plates and structural members used in ship construction by the use of heat, power-driven machines and special hand tools.
• You will operate oxy/acetylene gas heating torches.
• You will heat and bend characteristics of metal used in the overhaul and repair of ships.
• You will apply methods and procedures used in the bending and shaping of ship structural plates and shapes.
• You will work from templates, mock-up molds and lay-out markings.
• You will operate and set up various types of bending and shaping machines.
• You will use hand tools such as hand heating dogs, moonbars, and beveling bars.
• You will fabricate steel templates and steel mock-ups, working from wooden templates and wooden mock-ups furnished by mold loft.
• You will read blueprints, job orders or JIC specifications, sketches, manuals, memos and other trade-related information.
• You will make shop calculations using ordinary arithmetic, geometry and other trade related mathematical methods.
• You will set up and operate various structural shop machinery such as plate rolls, presses, bending brakes, shears, etc.