About the position
Fabricates, assembles, installs, or repairs furnishings in ships or boats according to blueprints, using hand tools, power tools, and measuring instruments.
Responsibilities
- Reads blueprints to determine dimensions of furnishings in ships or boats.
- Shapes and laminates wood to form parts of ship, using steam chambers, clamps, glue, and jigs.
- Assembles and installs hardware, gaskets, floors, furnishings, or insulation, using adhesive, hand tools, and power tools.
- Repairs structural woodwork and replaces defective parts and equipment, using hand tools and power tools.
- Cuts wood or glass to specified dimensions, using hand tools and power tools.
- Constructs floors, doors, and partitions, using woodworking machines, hand tools, and power tools.
- Shapes irregular parts and trims excess material from bulkhead and furnishings to ensure fit meets specifications.
- Transfers dimensions or measurements of wood parts or bulkhead on plywood, using measuring instruments and marking devices.
- Greases gears and other moving parts of machines on ship.
Requirements
- High School diploma or GED required.
- Two or more years' experience in both joiner/carpenter and HVAC work.
- Knowledge of fabrication using sheet metal and/or equivalent combination of experience and training which results in the required knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job.
Nice-to-haves
- Knowledge of materials, methods, and the appropriate tools to construct objects, structures, and buildings.
- Finding ways to structure or classify multiple pieces of information.
- Using mathematics to solve problems, installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications, identifying the nature of problems.
- The ability to quickly make coordinated movements of one hand, a hand together with its arm, or two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
