# Sheet Metal Fabricator

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Santa Ana, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $86,000-$114,000 USD
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Defence

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## Description

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.

## Skills

### Required
- sheet metal fabrication
- engineering drawings
- layout and shop math
- shears
- press brakes
- rolls
- plasma arc cutting
- laser cutting
- welding
- measuring tools

### Nice to have
- CNC plasma tables
- CNC laser cutters
- GTAW welding
- military shipbuilding
- NAVSEA technical publications

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