What Is Hunnington Ingalls Industries?

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Hunnington Ingalls Industries is America's largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of professioinal services to partners in government and industry (Hunnington Ingalls Industries website). There are a variety of types of career oportunites at HII. A few examples of career oportunities would be craft careers, supervisor careers, contractors, and engineering design careers. There are many more types of career oportunities at Ingalls which leads to why there are thousands of people who work for this company. First, one example of a career oportunity at HII are craft careers. There are different types of craft jobs. For instance, there are shipfitters, welders, pipe fitters, pipe weleders, joiners, machinists, electricians, and

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