I am doing some research on a man who I think was was an engine fitter at Laird's shipyard in Birkenhead from around 1880 to 1905. Does anyone know what an engine fitter's job would have involved at that time and what he might have been paid?

See here http://www.seayourhistory.org.uk/content/view/89/176/

same as i remember at Lairds.