Job Description:
- Must have LEVEL 1 Rigger Certification from NCCCO
- Must have 2-5 years’ experience in heavy shipboard rigging
- Fabricates, installs and repairs rigging and weight handling gear on ships.
- Attaches hoists and pulling gear to lift, move, remove, install or position machinery, equipment, structural parts and order heavy loads aboard ships.
- Selects and attaches chainfalls, jacks, rollers, levers and/or pulleys according to types of loads being moved.
- Signals cranes or other equipment to move loads.
- Controls movement of heavy equipment through narrow openings or in confined spaces.
- Lays out and handles lines on cleats or bollards and hauls in ships with capstans when assisting dock master in ship dry docking operations.
- Installs or repairs ships’ rigging such as mast on antenna wires, small boat handling gear, shipboard cranes, winches, windless, replenishment and weight handling equipment.
- Move barges and derricks with tug boats and yard boats.
- Works in engine rooms, boiler rooms, aloft or in confined spaces as required.
- Thorough knowledge of shackles, natural, synthetic and wire ropes, steamboat jacks, hydraulic jacks, turnbuckles, rollers, chainfalls, clamps, swivels, crane signals, shipboard nomenclature, forklifts and aerial lifts.
- Splice natural and synthetic ropes, tying knots, use of electric, pneumatic and hand powered tools.
- Knowledge of OSHA standard
Pay: up to $25.00/hour
Per Diem available to those eligible
