Pipefitter - Chesapeake, United States - Tidewater Staffing

Description

Tidewater Staffing is currently seeking Pipefitters for work located in Norfolk, VA. The Pipefitter must possess knowledge, skills, and abilities sufficient to fabricate, modify, repair, and install piping and support structures in all types of fluid systems, drain systems, and waveguides in connection with ship alteration and repair.

The following is a list of typical work that the Pipefitter might be asked to perform:

• Lay out work from blueprints, sketches, verbal orders, or TGIs.
• Repair or remove and replace damaged ship system components and pipe systems. Work from templates, manufacturing, and installing parts and assemblies with reference to baselines, centerlines, frame lines, and other reference points.
• Prepare pipe and component surfaces for cutting, welding, and brazing.
• Work is accomplished using miscellaneous hand, electric, and pneumatic tools. Uses precision tools such as micrometers, depth gauges, and calipers while performing close tolerance work.
• Coordinate and arrange for the work of several trades in connection with performing work from information received from technical work documents, blueprints, specifications, and written and/or oral instructions.