Ship Fitter

Shipfitters fabricate and layout metal for building and repairing ships. They work for private companies as well naval shipyards. A shipfitter can be tasked with building, maintaining, and repairing small boats such as towboats and tugboats, as well as container ships, icebreakers, and ocean liners. Military shipfitters work on aircraft carriers, tankers, and submarines.

Shipfitter or shipfitter-welder is a skilled person who works at the commercial and naval shipyards in different forms during the construction or repair phase of a ship. Besides this, he/she layouts and fabricates metals for repairing and building ships. They work both in small-scale and large-scale public and private companies. Shipfitters can work for maintaining, building, and repairing naval shipyards, aircraft carriers, submarines, small boats, icebreakers, ocean liners, tankers, and container ships.