Shipfitter

A Shipfitter or Ship Fitter is a maritime job. Shipfitter jobs are exactly what they sound like: the job entails fitting the parts of a ship together. A Shipfitter’s duties include following blueprints to accurately cut and attach the enormous sheets of structural metal that are fitted together to create a vessel’s hull. The bulk of a Shipfitter job entails the fabrication, assembly and erection of a ship’s main structure and parts, but it also includes the maintenance, repair and restoration of the same.