Steel Fitter
Company: St. Johns Ship Building
Job Ref: # 1837837
Date Posted: 2/13/2026 12:00:00 AM
City, State: Palatka, FL
Salary: $24 - $28
Description
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Experienced Steel Fitter
- Position, align, fit parts to form complete units or subunits, following blueprints and layout specifications, and using jigs, welding torches, and hand tools.
- Verify conformance of work pieces to specifications, using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes.
- Tack-weld fitted parts together.
- Lay out and examine Aluminum stock or work pieces to be processed to ensure that specifications are met.
- Align and fit parts according to specifications, using jacks, turnbuckles, wedges, drift pins, pry bars, and hammers.
- Locate and mark work piece bending and cutting lines, allowing for stock thickness, machine and welding shrinkage, and other component specifications.
- Position or tighten braces, jacks, clamps, ropes, or bolt straps, or bolt parts in position for welding or riveting.
- Study engineering drawings and blueprints to determine materials requirements and task sequences.
- Set up and operate fabricating machines, such as brakes, rolls, shears, flame cutters, grinders, and drill presses, to bend, cut, form, punch, drill, or otherwise form and assemble metal components.
- Hammer, chip, and grind work pieces to cut, bend, and straighten metal.
- Smooth work piece edges and fix taps, tubes, and valves.
- Design and construct templates and fixtures, using hand tools.
- Straighten warped or bent parts, using sledges, hand torches, straightening presses, or bulldozers.
- Set up face blocks, jigs, and fixtures.
- Remove high spots and cut bevels, using hand files, portable grinders, and cutting torches.
- Direct welders to build up low spots or short pieces with weld.
- Lift or move materials and finished products, using large cranes.
- Heat-treat parts, using acetylene torches.
- Preheat work pieces to make them malleable, using hand torches or furnaces.
- Install boilers, containers, and other structures.
- Erect ladders and scaffolding to fit together large assemblies.
- And miscellaneous duties may be required.
- Minimum 3 years' experience
- Must pass AWS certification within the first 60 days on the job
- High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED)
- Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
- Accuracy - Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
- Autonomy - Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Detail Oriented - Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.
- Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
- Resource Management (People & Equipment) - Ability to obtain and appropriate the proper usage of equipment, facilities, materials, as well as personnel.
- Safety Awareness - Ability to identify and correct conditions that affect employee safety.
- Technical Aptitude - Ability to comprehend complex technical topics and specialized information.
- Applied Learning - Ability to participate in needed learning activities in a way that makes the most of the learning experience.
- Communication, Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
- Judgment - The ability to formulate a sound decision using the available information.
- Reliability - The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.
- Pay range $20-$28 per hour, based on experience.
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Cost Savings and Worksite Benefits
- Company paid Medical Gap Insurance
- Company paid Short Term Disability
- Company paid Basic Life and AD&D
- Company Match 401K
- Paid holidays
- Personal and Vacation time





























