What are the responsibilities and job description for the Offshore Pipe/Structural Fitter position at Gulf Island?
Description
Main Purpose:
The most important and essential job function of this position is attitude and includes the following: getting along with co-workers, working as a team member, functioning appropriately under pressure, responding in a positive manner to supervision, complying with safety, health, and environmental and human resources requirements including those regarding substance use and abuse. Other duties may be assigned.
Essential Functions:
- Uses a cutting torch to cut metal to align beams, grating, stairways, and pipes properly.
- Uses a come-a-long to assist in aligning materials to fit materials properly.
- Uses forklifts to move materials in the yard.
- Uses grinder to remove slag and smooth metal to achieve a better fit.
- Uses squares, levels, torch, and center punch to assist in fitting.
- Uses grinder and torch overhead to tack and fit material.
- Uses a hammer wrench to tighten stud bolts on valves and flanges.
- Uses a sledgehammer to help tighten stud bolts on valves and flanges.
- Bolts ladder cage to structures.
- Helps Riggers to hang a deck.
- Handles valves to fit with a pipe in a pipe rack.
- Loads valves in the basket to go on top of the deck.
- Cuts metal to properly align beams, grating, stairways, and pipes.
- Fits flanges and valves together when constructing the pipe rack.
- Aligns beams, grating, stairways, and pipe to be tacked and welded to complete the job
Benefits Offered:
- Earned Wage Access
- Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k) with Company Match
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Vacation
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Safety Awards
- Company Store
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Requirements
Physical Requirements:
- Standing: This is an essential job function/physical requirement.
- Walking: This is an essential job function/physical requirement.
- Turning, twisting, bending, and stooping- These physical requirements are essential job functions.
- Pushing and Pulling- These physical requirements are essential job functions.
- Reaching, forward, and overhead are essential job functions /physical requirements.
- Climbing: This is an essential job function /physical requirement.
- Balancing, fingering, feeling, talking, hearing, and seeing- These are all considered regular physical duties/requirements and would be needed/required to work in this industrial environment safely and efficiently.
- Lifting - employees must lift 25 pounds and occasionally 50-75 pounds.
Job Requirements:
- Two years of experience fitting.
- Must be able to pass pre-employment physical and drug screen.
- Must be able to pass background checks to company policy.
- TWIC card
Desirable Experience, Education, and Training:
- Highschool diploma or GED.
Tools, Equipment, and Technology:
- Fitters must know of and use cutting torches, measuring tapes, calculators, levels, man-lifts, high-reach equipment, welding machines, chipping hammers, pressure chippers, power grinders, etc.
- Must be able to read and write.
Gulf Island will not sponsor applications for work visas. Additionally, applicants for employment with Gulf Island must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Accordingly, Gulf Island will not consider applications from candidates who require the company to sponsor a work visa and who are not currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Gulf island is not accepting unsolicited candidates from search firms for posted employment opportunities. Please no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to Gulf Island employees via email, the internet, or any other form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for the position will be deemed the sole property of Gulf Island. No recruiting placement fee will be paid in the event Gulf Island hires the candidate due to the referral or through other means.
