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U47A NAMTS Shipfitter

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Overview

A NAMTS Shipfitter fabricates and installs flat and complex metal forms using intermediate-level maintenance procedures. The shipfitter demonstrates knowledge of repair procedures, repair and maintenance standards, quality assurance specifications, and the proper use of maintenance industrial machinery.

Core Skills

  • Intermediate-level metal fabrication and installation
  • Repair standards and quality assurance specifications
  • Proper use of maintenance industrial machinery

Civilian Career Paths

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Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters

Fabricating and installing flat and complex metal forms under repair and quality assurance standards transfers directly to structural metal fabrication and fitting.

How to prepare: Complete a blueprint-based fabrication practice project that includes laying out parts and checking finished dimensions against specifications.

What the civilian work involves
  • Verify conformance of workpieces to specifications, using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes.
  • Position, align, fit, and weld parts to form complete units or subunits, following blueprints and layout specifications, and using jigs, welding torches, and hand tools.
  • Lay out and examine metal stock or workpieces to be processed to ensure that specifications are met.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Computer aided design and drafting CADD software

Layout Workers, Metal and Plastic

Experience fabricating complex metal forms and using industrial machinery provides a foundation for planning and marking metalwork before fabrication.

How to prepare: Take a metal-layout course with hands-on practice translating blueprints into templates, marked dimensions, and cutting or bending sequences.

What the civilian work involves
  • Mark curves, lines, holes, dimensions, and welding symbols onto workpieces, using scribes, soapstones, punches, and hand drills.
  • Plan locations and sequences of cutting, drilling, bending, rolling, punching, and welding operations, using compasses, protractors, dividers, and rules.
  • Plan and develop layouts from blueprints and templates, applying knowledge of trigonometry, design, effects of heat, and properties of metals.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Autodesk AutoCAD

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC U47A

    [1] NEC entry "U47A - NAMTS Shipfitter"; cached text line 12116; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Intermediate-level metal fabrication and installation, Repair standards and quality assurance specifications, Proper use of maintenance industrial machinery, Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters (O*NET 51-2041.00), Layout Workers, Metal and Plastic (O*NET 51-4192.00)

  2. O*NET: Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters (O*NET 51-2041.00)

  3. O*NET: Layout Workers, Metal and Plastic

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Layout Workers, Metal and Plastic (O*NET 51-4192.00)

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