Metal Fabricator and Shipfitter

About Seaspan ULC and Vancouver Shipyards

Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards, located in North Vancouver, is gearing up for an exciting and dynamic year. We are proudly constructing two 174-meter-long Joint Support Ships (JSS) for the Royal Canadian Navy—the longest naval ships ever built in Canada. Alongside this, we are completing the Offshore Oceanographic Science Vessel for the Canadian Coast Guard, their largest and most advanced science vessel to date.

We have also started working on the Canadian Coast Guard’s new heavy Polar Icebreaker, one of the world’s largest and most complex icebreakers. These landmark projects, combined with the design, engineering, and construction of additional vessels for Canada in the years ahead, promise decades of long-term job stability and growth in the shipbuilding industry.

Role Overview: Metal Fabricator and Shipfitter

As a Metal Fabricator and Shipfitter, you will perform a variety of tasks throughout the production process, while upholding Seaspan’s Core Values of Safety, Care, Efficiency and Accountability. You will have an opportunity to develop new skills including specialized fabrication and forming specific to the shipbuilding industry using some of the most state-of-the-art shipbuilding equipment and processes in the world.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Red Seal Metal Fabrication and/or 5+ years of fabrication experience
• CWB all position FCAW Tacking Ticket preferred
• ITA Marine Fitter Endorsement ideal
• Demonstrated passion for safety and environmental stewardship
• Good communication skills both written and verbal in the English language
• Ability to work positively in a team environment
• Demonstrated proficiency in reading and interpreting blueprints and drawings
• Demonstrated proficiency at layout and fabrication of metal structural parts such as plates, bulkheads, and frames
• Demonstrated proficiency in using jacks, turnbuckles, and fairing tools
• Need to be able to work in a construction environment involving confined spaces, working at heights, physical labour, and various weather conditions
• Must be flexible and be able to work all shifts
• Advanced skills: Demonstrated proficiency in Grand Block consolidations with a good understanding of critical ships datums

Compensation & Union Details

This is a Union role with Marine & Shipbuilders - Local 506 and offers an excellent health, welfare & pension package after the completion of 480 hours. The Red Seal Journeyperson hourly rate is $57.01 p/hr. If you have 5+ years of fabrication experience and do not have a certification, you will earn $48.46 p/hr. Any overtime is double time.

Application Process

If you are interested in future opportunities, please apply online today or send your resume to tradesrecruitment@seaspan.com

Disclaimers

By applying, you agree that Seaspan may share your resume with our Union partner, Marine & Shipbuilders - Local 506.

Note: Unsolicited applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.

Key skills/competency

• Metal Fabrication
• Shipfitting
• FCAW Tacking
• Marine Fitter Endorsement
• Blueprint Reading
• Structural Fabrication
• Layout & Forming
• Fairing Tools
• Confined Space Work
• Grand Block Consolidations