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Open Positions — Gulf Coast Shipyards
These are AMS's live shipyard openings. Pick the one closest to you and apply — an AMS representative follows up fast.
Openings by market
21 open positions across the Gulf Coast
Every posting below is a real opening AMS is filling now. Apply to the metro you can work, and if you can travel, mention it — per-diem and travel-pay assignments open up first.
Houma, LA
4 openingsPipe Welder — Houma, LA (Gulf Coast Shipyards)AMS is hiring pipe welders for shipbuilding and ship-repair work in the Houma, Louisiana marine corridor. All-position marine pipe welding to ABS, AWS, and ASME code — apply and an AMS rep will go over the role.View role & applyPipefitter — Houma, LA (Louisiana Marine Corridor)AMS is hiring pipefitters to lay out, fabricate, and install marine pipe systems in the Houma, Louisiana shipbuilding corridor. Drawing-literate fit-up work alongside our pipe welders.View role & applyShipfitter — Houma, LA (Gulf Coast Shipyards)AMS is hiring shipfitters for shipbuilding and repair work in Houma, Louisiana, on the Houma Navigation Canal. Lay out, fit, and tack steel for the weld crew — apply and an AMS rep will go over the role.View role & applyStructural Welder — Houma, LA (Louisiana Marine Corridor)AMS is hiring structural welders for offshore-service and workboat construction in the Houma, Louisiana marine corridor. Weld hulls, decks, and steel structure alongside AMS shipfitters.View role & apply
Mobile, AL
4 openingsPipe Welder — Mobile, AL (Gulf Coast Shipbuilding)AMS is hiring pipe welders for the Mobile, Alabama shipbuilding market — one of the largest on the Gulf Coast and home ground for AMS, based just across the bay in Loxley.View role & applyPipefitter — Mobile, AL (Mobile River Shipyards)AMS is hiring pipefitters for the Mobile, Alabama shipbuilding cluster on the Mobile River. Layout, fabrication, and installation of marine pipe systems — close to AMS's Loxley home base.View role & applyStructural Welder — Mobile, AL (Gulf Coast Shipbuilding)AMS is hiring structural welders for shipbuilding and repair across Mobile County, Alabama, AMS's home market. Weld hull plate, decks, and bulkheads in flux-core and stick on new construction and repair.View role & applyShipfitter — Mobile, AL (Mobile Bay Shipbuilding)AMS is hiring shipfitters for the Mobile, Alabama marine market, from the Mobile River down to the Bayou La Batre boatbuilders. Lay out, fit, and tack steel on new hulls and repair work, close to AMS's Loxley base.View role & apply
Pascagoula, MS
4 openingsPipe Welder — Pascagoula, MS (Gulf Coast's Largest Cluster)AMS is hiring pipe welders for Pascagoula, Mississippi — the single biggest shipbuilding cluster on the Gulf Coast. Code marine pipe welding on new construction and repair.View role & applyPipefitter — Pascagoula, MS (Mississippi Shipbuilding)AMS is hiring pipefitters for the Pascagoula, Mississippi shipbuilding market. Fabricate and install marine pipe systems on the Gulf Coast's largest yard cluster.View role & applyStructural Welder — Pascagoula, MS (Mississippi Shipbuilding)AMS is hiring structural welders for the Pascagoula, Mississippi shipbuilding market. Flux-core and stick welding on hull units, decks, and bulkheads, new build and repair.View role & applyShipfitter — Pascagoula, MS (Gulf Coast's Largest Cluster)AMS is hiring shipfitters for the Pascagoula, Mississippi shipbuilding cluster, the biggest on the Gulf Coast, with work in Moss Point as well. Fit and align steel structure on new construction and repair.View role & apply
Palatka / Jacksonville, FL
4 openingsPipe Welder — Palatka / Jacksonville, FL (Navy & Commercial Ship Repair)AMS is hiring pipe welders for work in Palatka and Jacksonville, Florida — the northeast Florida ship-repair market, a major Navy and commercial repair hub. All-position code welding.View role & applyPipefitter — Palatka / Jacksonville, FL (Ship-Repair Hub)AMS is hiring pipefitters for work in Palatka and Jacksonville, Florida. Fabricate and install marine pipe systems on Navy and commercial repair projects.View role & applyStructural Welder — Palatka / Jacksonville, FL (Ship Repair)AMS is hiring structural welders for Navy and commercial ship repair in Palatka and Jacksonville, Florida. Weld renewed plate, decks, and foundations in flux-core and stick.View role & applyShipfitter — Palatka / Jacksonville, FL (Ship Repair)AMS is hiring shipfitters for repair work on Navy and commercial vessels in Palatka and Jacksonville, Florida. Crop out damaged steel, then fit new plate for the welders.View role & apply
Tampa, FL
4 openingsPipe Welder — Tampa, FL (Ship Repair)AMS is hiring pipe welders for ship-repair work in Tampa, Florida, on Port Tampa Bay. All-position marine pipe welding to code on repair and refit jobs — apply and an AMS rep will go over the role.View role & applyPipefitter — Tampa, FL (Ship Repair)AMS is hiring pipefitters for ship-repair work in Tampa, Florida. Rip out, fabricate, and install marine pipe systems on vessels in for repair on Port Tampa Bay.View role & applyOutside Machinist — Tampa, FL (Ship Repair)AMS is hiring an outside machinist for ship-repair work in Tampa, Florida. Remove, repair, align, and reinstall shipboard machinery aboard vessels in for repair on Port Tampa Bay.View role & applyShipfitter — Tampa, FL (Ship Repair)AMS is hiring shipfitters for ship-repair work in Tampa, Florida, on Port Tampa Bay. Renew steel on vessels in dry dock and topside, working with AMS welders.View role & apply
Not seeing your market?
AMS recruits welders and fitters across the Gulf Coast even where there is no posting today. Browse every craft and market, look at traveling assignments, or — if you have served — see how military experience translates.
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