Sheet Metal Fabricator

As a Sheet Metal Fabricator, you'll fabricate, form, and install sheet metal components for maritime vessels. These components include ventilation ductwork, structural foundations and brackets, bulkhead liners, furniture, ladders, handrails, and wet-space linings. You'll work from engineering drawings, cutting and forming metal on various equipment, then fitting and installing into compartments.

Responsibilities

Fabrication

• Lay out, mark, cut, and form sheet metal components from engineering drawings, sketches, and templates.
• Operate shears, press brakes, rolls, hand brakes, notchers, and nibblers to form parts to drawing tolerances.
• Cut material using plasma arc, laser, shears, and hand tools.
• Fabricate ventilation ductwork: transitions, elbows, tees, plenums, and damper assemblies.
• Fabricate structural components: foundations, brackets, equipment bases, stiffeners, and coamings.
• Build furniture and outfit items: bunks, lockers, cabinets, shelving, ladders, handrails, and enclosures.
• Drill, ream, countersink, and deburr holes for fasteners, rivets, and hardware.
• Operate CNC fabrication equipment where available: load programs, set up material, verify first articles.

Installation & Fit-Up

• Fit and install fabricated components into maritime structures: ventilation systems, liners, foundations, furniture, and outfit items.
• Scribe, trim, and adjust parts to achieve proper fit against hull curvature, frames, and adjacent structure.
• Install using mechanical fasteners, adhesives, and gaskets per procedure.
• Set up and align components using levels, squares, plumb bobs, and laser alignment tools.
• Work with riggers and crane operators to position and install larger assemblies.

Welding & Joining

• Perform sheet metal welding on stainless steel, aluminum, carbon steel, and copper-nickel as required.
• Perform spot welding, resistance welding, and brazing where specified.
• Prep joints: clean, fit, tack, and maintain proper gap and alignment for weld quality.
• Maintain weld certifications as required by program and material.

Quality & Documentation

• Complete hardcopy and electronic documentation: fabrication travelers, inspection records, material traceability.
• Verify dimensions against drawings using tape measures, calipers, protractors, radius gauges, and templates.
• Maintain compliance with NAVSEA standards, military specifications, and workmanship requirements.
• Identify non-conformances and process through proper disposition channels.
• Prepare completed work for company, customer, and government inspections.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• 5+ years of sheet metal fabrication experience in industrial, shipbuilding, or manufacturing environments.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, sketches, and GD&T.
• Proficiency with layout and shop math , geometry, trigonometry, material allowances, bend calculations.
• Experience operating shears, press brakes, rolls, and standard sheet metal shop equipment.
• Experience with material cutting: plasma, shears, or hand methods.
• Ability to fit and install fabricated components to tight tolerances.
• Proficiency with precision measuring tools: tape measures, calipers, protractors, angle finders, templates.
• Willing to work any shift and overtime as production requires.
• U.S. Person status.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CNC plasma tables, CNC laser cutters, or CNC press brakes.
• GTAW welding capability on stainless steel, aluminum, and/or copper-nickel.
• Military shipbuilding, submarine, or naval shipyard experience.
• Experience fabricating and installing ventilation ductwork to military standards.
• Familiarity with NAVSEA technical publications, MIL-STDs, and naval drawing standards.

Physical Requirements

• Lift up to 50 lbs regularly and 75 lbs occasionally.
• Stand, bend, kneel, crawl, and work overhead for extended periods.
• Work at heights and in confined spaces.
• Work in shop and shipboard environments with exposure to noise, sharp edges, grinding dust, and variable temperatures.
• Maintain color vision adequate for material identification and weld inspection.

Salary and Benefits

The salary range for this role is $86,000-$114,000 USD per year. Anduril offers a comprehensive benefits package, including top-tier benefits for full-time employees.