Steelworker: civilian jobs and transferable skills
Navy SW Steelworker experience builds transferable skills in welding, fabrication, construction, sheet metal, technical drawings, and safety. CivLaunch currently matches 10 open civilian jobs to this rating, including TIG Welder at NMG Aerospace, Welder at Essex Industries, and Machine Operator at Piper Aircraft.
About the SW rating
Seabee steelworker who fabricates and erects pre-engineered buildings and places steel reinforcement for concrete. Welds and cuts steel, directs and trains crews that assemble, position, and join structural members, manages construction operations, and deploys materials and equipment for construction and disaster relief.
Ranked by how many of your skills each job uses. Strong matches share the most.
TIG Welder
NMG Aerospace · Stow, OH
Strong Match
Aerospace Manufacturing
3+ years
TIG welder at NMG Aerospace in Stow, Ohio. Welds stainless, aluminum, and titanium pressure tanks and structural parts to print, torch-brazes joints, installs hardware, and checks welds and dimensions with gauges. Also runs shears, press brakes, and plasma cutters. Needs three to five years of TIG welding, blueprint reading, and passing company-supplied MIL-STD-1595 or AWS D17.1 testing.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to welding, fabrication, and sheet metal.
Production welder at Essex Industries in St. Louis, which builds aircraft components and oxygen and breathing equipment. TIG and MIG welds and finishes many metals and alloys for parts that must meet strength and pressure specs, works from blueprints and sketches, inspects finished welds, and completes paperwork. Needs one to three years of technical training and a year of welding.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to welding, fabrication, and technical drawings.
Machine operator on Piper Aircraft's Vero Beach, Florida production floor, hired at three levels. Forms and machines aircraft parts on brake presses, shears, punch presses, laser turrets, tube benders, lathes, and mills from Piper drawings and process specs, performs first-article and self inspections, and handles routine machine upkeep under FAA quality rules.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to fabrication, sheet metal, and technical drawings.
Production welder building aerospace parts and assemblies from aluminum, titanium, and other alloys with manual and robotic welding processes. Inspects welds, keeps traceability records, and helps train new welders to aerospace quality standards.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to welding, fabrication, and technical drawings.
Sheet metal fabricator and assembler laying out, fabricating, riveting, drilling, and assembling semi-complex missile parts and fixtures using brakes, rolls, routers, and hand tools.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to fabrication, sheet metal, and technical drawings.
Sheet metal technician at the Banyan Air Service repair station in Fort Lauderdale, working on turbine aircraft from King Airs to Gulfstreams. Assesses structural damage, helps estimate labor and materials, works from blueprints, orders parts, and completes repairs to manufacturer and FAA standards. Needs five years of sheet metal work with a portfolio, an A&P license, and personal tools.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to sheet metal, technical drawings, and safety.
Upholstery technician in the C&L Aviation interior shop in Bangor, Maine. Works from drawings and aircraft specs to strip, clean, repair, and re-cover panels and seats in fabric, vinyl, and leather, cuts patterns and carpets, sews covers, installs headliners and sidewalls, and signs off work orders. Needs two years of industrial upholstery. Pays $22 to $35 an hour.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to fabrication, technical drawings, and safety.
Sheet metal and structures technician in Cutter Aviation's Phoenix Sky Harbor maintenance hangar. Repairs airframe structure on customer aircraft: riveting, patches, fiberglass work, corrosion treatment, priming, and paint, plus installing added equipment and logging each repair to FAA standards. Three to five years of aircraft structural repair experience preferred; high school diploma or GED required.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to fabrication, sheet metal, and safety.
Contract CNC machinist at AeroTEC's flight test center in Moses Lake, Washington. Programs in G-code, sets up, and runs CNC mills to make tooling, test models, and parts for flight test programs, assembles aircraft parts, and welds shop fixtures. Needs a high school diploma, five years operating 3-, 4-, and 5-axis mills, and three years of CNC programming.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to welding, fabrication, and technical drawings.
Sheet metal assembler and paint touch-up worker at Sonaca North America in Washington, Missouri. Reads blueprints and work orders to plan each build, loads aluminum parts into fixtures, drills, reams, countersinks, and rivets, installs studs and nutplates, bonds parts, smooths and deburrs edges, inspects work, applies touch-up paint, and reworks rejected parts. Aircraft or sheet metal experience preferred.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to sheet metal, technical drawings, and safety.
Shares 3 of your 6 skills:
Sheet Metal
Technical Drawings
Safety
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