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Open Positions — Gulf Coast Shipyards
These are AMS's live pipe and structural openings. Pick the one closest to you and apply — an AMS representative follows up fast.
Openings by market
8 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
2 openingsPriority openingPipe 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 & apply
Mobile, AL
2 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 & apply
Pascagoula, MS
2 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 & apply
Jacksonville, FL
2 openingsPipe Welder — Jacksonville, FL (Navy & Commercial Ship Repair)AMS is hiring pipe welders for the Jacksonville, Florida ship-repair market — a major Navy and commercial repair hub on the northeast Florida coast. All-position code welding.View role & applyPipefitter — Jacksonville, FL (Ship-Repair Hub)AMS is hiring pipefitters for the Jacksonville, Florida ship-repair market. Fabricate and install marine pipe systems on Navy and commercial repair projects.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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Tell us your trade and where you can work — an AMS representative will follow up. Résumé optional.