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Waveguide Fabricator / Hot Worker

Prism Maritime

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Location
Chesapeake, VA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Secret clearance

Job overview

The Waveguide Fabricator / Hot Worker supports shipboard waveguide systems through engineering, fabrication, installation, testing, and technical documentation. The role provides technical support to project management, evaluates installation needs, and helps identify materials, resolve equipment failures, and improve processes. Work is primarily aboard naval vessels and may involve physical activity, confined spaces, outdoor conditions, noise, and temperature variations.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Waveguide SystemsWaveguide FabricationMachiningHot WorkBrazingSMAW WeldingGTAW WeldingGMAW WeldingFCAW WeldingWaveguide InstallationNAVSEA DrawingsWaveguide TargetingEquipment TroubleshootingShipboard ValidationTechnical DocumentationBlueprint InterpretationDesign InterpretationHot Work Requirements

Qualifications

High School Diploma or GEDBachelor's in Applicable Field + 1 Year, Associate's + 3 Years, or 6 Years' ExperienceSix Years' Technical ExperienceFire Watch CertificationSMAW, GTAW, GMAW, or FCAW CertificationSecret Clearance

Full job description

Position Title: Waveguide Fabricator / Hot Worker

Work Location: Chesapeake, VA

FLSA Status: Full-Time, Non-Exempt

REQ#26_10296G

Summary of duties - Waveguide Fabricator / Hot Worker applies an extensive knowledge of shipboard waveguide systems to include engineering design, analysis, evaluation, fabrication, installation and development of engineering and technical documentation and reports. Provides senior technical support to the Project Manager in such areas as research, design, development, material identification and procurement support, inventory management, installation, and testing with specific regard to shipboard waveguide systems. Exercises discretion and independent judgment of a professional nature to complete waveguide engineering tasks. Recommends changes and refinements for continuous process improvement. Periodically required to lift/move equipment up to and including 50 pounds.

Specific description of duties:

  • Review SID's and evaluate waveguide installation task needs to include verification shipchecks

  • Experience in fabrication of waveguide components including machining skills

  • Experience and certified to perform hot work on waveguide components

  • Experience and skills required to pass Brazing, SMAW, GTAW, GMAW and or FCAW weld procedures

  • Experience installing waveguide systems interpreting and utilizing NAVSEA approved drawings or similar

  • Perform and or oversee waveguide targeting of critically measured components

  • Identifies problem areas and provides Condition Discrepancy Reports, Change Order Request Notices, and/or Liaison Action Request preparation

  • Identifies, analyzes, reports on, and corrects causes of equipment failures

  • Researches and selects pertinent equipment / material for waveguide installations

  • Perform ship/site validations to determine accuracy in drawings and identify changes to the drawings and or interferences not identified in the drawings

  • Performs engineering, quality, and safety audit / inspections

  • Provides technical expertise and support on waveguide installations and production

  • Conducts pre and post waveguide installation testing

  • Provides project status reports

  • Maintain requisite OQE within a QAWB

  • Overtime, to include weekend work, and travel outside the local areas is routinely required but not guaranteed

  • Perform any other assignments or tasks as needed or requested by management to assist in accomplishing the organization's mission, objectives and goals

Certifications & Licenses (as required for task being performed):

  • Fire watch certification

  • SMAW, GTAW, GMAW and or FCAW

Education/Specialized Training:

  • High School diploma or GED is mandatory

  • Bachelor's degree in applicable field and one year or Associates degree and three years or six years directly related experience

  • Degree should be in Engineering, Management, or a technically relatable field

  • Non-degreed personnel must have six years' technical experience in installation modification, field change, operation, maintenance, testing, troubleshooting and repair of waveguide systems or NAVSEA governed hot work items in accordance with Military Standard procedures

  • Comprehensive drawings, blueprints and design interpretation

  • Comprehensive understating of all hot work requirements in reference to shipboard alterations

Security Clearance:

  • Clearance up to secret level may be required.

Physical/Environmental Job Requirements:

  • Lifting/moving up to and including 50 pounds

  • Routinely climbing several flights of stairs

  • Performing tasks in confined spaces

Our work is primarily onboard naval vessels that may include variables of physical activity, i.e. stooping, climbing, walking, etc.

In performing these duties, you may be required to work outdoors. You will experience temperature variations, extremely loud noises and other physical hazards.

Company Overview:

Prism Maritime is a premier maritime service provider for Alteration Installation Team (AIT) and Modernization related Services in support of US Maritime and Shore-based clients. Prism Maritime is a privately held business headquartered in Chesapeake, VA, with offices in San Diego and Ventura, CA. Established in 2006, Prism Maritime currently employs over 350 professionals and maintains an ISO 9001-2015 certified Quality Management System.

Prism Maritime is an EEO/AA employer. We invite resumes from all interested parties without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ethnic origin, physical or mental disability, veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. U.S. citizenship is required for most positions.

If you need special assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment with us, please email [email protected] or call: 757-460-8800.

To Apply: Visit www.prismmaritime.com and click on Careers>Job Openings

All applications are active for 90 calendar days. After 90 days you must re-apply to still be considered for this position.

How this job compares

Set against the 1,944 open Engineering Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Virginia median$62–80K/yr45 salary ranges
  • Virginia median$32–42/hr52 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 157 open Engineering Technician jobs in Virginia and 1,944 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
Experience
Engineering Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (1,499 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 782 of the 1,944 open Engineering Technician jobs (40%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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