Types of CAREERS

Engineering: Norfolk Naval Shipyard has Major Entry-Level Opportunities for New Graduates in the Engineering Fields of:
                               
                                                                    civil engineering
                                                                    electrical engineering
                                                                    electronics engineering
                                                                    environmental engineering
                                                                    industrial engineering.
                                                                    materials engineering
                                                                    mechanical engineering
                                                                    nuclear engineering
                                                                    safety engineering
                                                                    structural engineering
                                                                    welding engineering

For more information call (757)396-3138 or (757) 396-4355 (email: NFSH_NNSY_Webmaster@navy.mil and (put "Engineering Employment Opps - NNSY1" in the subject line)

Trades: Trades are available for hire or through the Apprentice Program (see tab)

• boilermaker: Fabricates, assembles, installs, repairs, and test boilers and boiler components. Work performed will be both in the shop and aboard ships from blueprints, sketches, specifications, layout templates and process instructions.
• electrician: Fabricates, installs, modifies, and repairs shipboard electrical systems, controls, instrumentation and rewind motors.
• electronics mechanic: Installs, modifies, fabricates and repairs electrical/electronic systems, controls and instrumentation.  Uses blueprints, technical manuals and test procedures in accordance with specified guidelines.  Works on  complex systems such navigation systems, fire control systems, radar and sonar equipment and satellite communications systems.
• fabric worker: Fabricate, repair, and install fabric articles such as awnings, sails, boat canopies, weather and protective cloths, fenders, bumpers, various types of covers, and other ship and boat materials.
• heavy mobile equipment mechanic: Determines cause of mechanical operation problem, trace and locate defects, and make repairs to diesel, gasoline, and other types of internal combustion engines; automatic and non-automatic transmissions; heavy duty drive line systems; and hydraulic utility systems and controls.
• insulator:  Work involves insulating surfaces of pipes, ducts, valves, fittings, flanges, boilers, tanks, turbines, evaporators, refrigerating units, and similar structures.
• machinist: Manufacture and repair parts and items of equipment which require the use of various types of standard and special machine tools and their attachments to machine metals, metal alloys, and other materials.
• marine machinery mechanic: Dismantle, repair, relocate, modify, maintain, align, overhaul and install a wide
• variety of marine machinery, equipment and systems such as propulsion machinery, lifeboat davits, anchor handling gear, and missile tube equipment located aboard submarines, ships and other floating   craft.
• metals inspector: Conducting nondestructive testing in the fields of visual, eddy current, liquid penetrant, magnetic particle, radiography, and ultrasonic inspections, ensuring a quality products.
• painter: Performs various types of preparations and applications to ships' surfaces and equipment; apply paint and other protective coatings. This work is accomplished using solvents, acids, detergents, power and hand tools and electronic controlled automatic plate blasting equipment.
• pipefitter:  Installs, maintains, and fabricates various piping systems and equipment necessary to carry out the overhaul and repair of naval vessels and to support shipboard hotel services and engineering systems. The piping systems include water (salt and fresh), steam (high and low pressure), compressed air, fuel, and sanitation systems.
• rigger: Use chainfalls, blocks and tackles, winches, cranes, and other mechanical devices to safely move items, ranging from a few pounds to those weighing several hundred tons, usually from or to areas within ships or submarines.
• sheet Metal Mechanic: Constructs and installs metal products to include ventilation, furniture (desks, tables, bunks, lockers, cabinets, bins, etc), bulkheads, ladders, handrails, and equipment foundations, Interprets blueprints, develops patters, and use computer programs designed to develop sketches.
• shipfitter:  Develops, lays out, bolts, assembles and erects ferrous, nonferrous metals and plastic plate.  Manufactures and installs interior and exterior items on vessels such as bulwarks, catapult structures, doors, foundations, hatches, railings and tanks.  Prepares surfaces for welding, burning or riveting.
• shipwright: Builds and lays out keel and bilge blocks as supporting cradles for dry- docking submarines and surface ships. Installs and repairs wood bulkheads, doors, sash, paneling, ladders, super-structure decks and gratings, wooden decks and panels of wood substitutes.
• welder: Involves welding metals and alloys. Uses Electric, gas, and other welding processes such as electron Beam welding, and the skill to apply these processes in manufacturing, repairing, modifying, rebuilding, and assembling various types of metal and alloy parts, equipment, systems and structures such as buildings, aircraft and ships.

Veterans:

The shipyard uses the Veteran’s Recruitment Appointment authority to fill job openings. We have an ongoing need through the year for mechanics of various crafts, engineers, engineering technicians, and physical science technicians with shipboard experience.

For information on available trades positions call (757) 396-3137; physical science technician positions, (757) 396-7128; non-nuclear engineering and engineering technician positions,(757) 396-4355; nuclear engineering and engineering technician positions, (757) 396-3138 Email NFSH_NNSY_Webmaster@navy.mil (put "Job seeking Veteran" in subject line)



NNSY also participates in the wounded warror program. For more information go to: http://www.navsea.navy.mil/WoundedWarrior.aspx