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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Lafayette, LA
Lafayette, Louisiana

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A National Steel Fabricating Company in South Louisiana is looking for Structural Fitters! Several Positions Available!

Job Purpose:

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.

Structural Fitter Job Duties:
  • Verify conformance of work pieces to specifications, using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes.
  • Tack-weld fitted parts together.
  • Lie out and examine metal stock or work pieces to be processed in order to ensure that specifications are met.
  • Align and fit parts according to specifications, using jacks, turnbuckles, wedges, drift pins, pry bars, and hammers.
  • Lift or move materials and finished products, using large cranes.
  • Locate and mark work piece bending and cutting lines, allowing for stock thickness, machine and welding shrinkage, and other component specifications.
  • Position or tighten braces, jacks, clamps, ropes, and/or bolt straps, or bolt parts in position for welding.
  • Study engineering drawings and blueprints to determine materials requirements and task sequences.
  • Move parts into position, manually or by using hoists or cranes.
  • Set up and operate fabricating machines such as rolls, flame cutters, grinders, cut, form, punch, drill, or otherwise form and assemble metal components.
  • Hammer, chip, and grind work pieces in order to cut, bend, and straighten metal.
  • Smooth work piece edges, and fix taps, tubes, and valves.
  • Design and construct templates and fixtures, using hand tools.
  • Straighten warped or bent parts, using sledges, hand torches, straightening presses, or bulldozers.
  • Mark reference points onto floors or face blocks and transpose them to work pieces, using measuring devices, squares, chalk, and soapstone.
  • Set up face blocks, jigs, and fixtures.
  • Remove high spots and cut bevels, using hand files, portable grinders, and cutting torches.


Temp to Perm Assignment; No per diem or relocation compensation is offered.

Hourly Pay: $15.00 - $18.00/ hour DOE

Hours: Day Shift: Monday thru Thursday 7:00am-5:30pm Friday 7:00am-3:30pm Saturday 7:00am-11:00am

Night Shift: Monday thru Thursday 5:30pm-3:00am Friday 3:30pm-11:00pm

Must have Steel Toe Boots, all PPE is provided

Resume Preferred

Drug Screen and Background required

Email resume to apsbatonrouge@apstemps.com or call 225-296-0605

Apply in person at:

11445 Coursey Blvd., Suite Q

Baton Rouge, LA 70816

Monday - Friday

8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Please bring 2 forms of Government issued Identification.

EOE