Outside Machinist

Tidewater Staffing; Chesapeake (VA); On-site; USD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading staffing agency is seeking an Outside Machinist to work in local shipyards. The role involves performing a variety of machining operations on ship machinery, utilizing technical documents, and collaborating with various trades. The position offers benefits including paid vacation and health insurance, with weekly pay.

Benefits

Paid accrued vacation time

Health and dental insurance

Weekly pay

Qualifications

• Knowledge and skills to perform machining on ships and submarines.
• Experience with various machine tools and safety devices required.

Responsibilities

• Remove, repair, and install propulsion machinery and auxiliary systems.
• Test and inspect machinery during dock and sea trials.
• Use precision instruments and machine tools for fabrication and installation.

Skills

Machining

Installation

Repair

Blueprint Reading

Tools

Precision Measuring Instruments

Boring Machines

Milling Machines

Drill Press

Job description

Tidewater Staffing is currently seeking Outside Machinists for work in various local shipyards!

Job Description:

The Outside Machinist must possess knowledge, skills and abilities to perform job operation/tasks on conventional and nuclear ships and submarines. The Outside Machinist must be assignable to any work center excluding nuclear and subsafe machinery. The following is a list of typical work that an Outside Machinist might be asked to perform:

• Remove, repair, overhaul, install and align main propulsion machinery and associated equipment/components. Also remove, repair, overhaul, install and align equipment associated with auxiliary systems such as condensers, compressors, pumps, forced draft blowers, main feed pumps, various types of valves, cargo handling machinery, anchor handling gear, boat davits, cranes, elevators, conveyors, firefighting equipment, machine shop equipment, galley, and laundry equipment.
• Install and repair foundations for operating machinery and principal structures/components of ship’s armament.
• Install, adjust, set, and repair or replaces various control/regulating or safety devices such as meters, gages, valves, governors and automatic alarms. Test or assist in testing of shipboard machinery pierside or on sea trials to prove satisfactory operation and acceptance.
• Use various portable and fixed machine tools such as boring bars, milling machines, facing machines and drill presses. Use precision measuring instruments such as height gages, depth gages, calipers, verniers, various types of micrometers, and assists in the use of optical equipment.
• Coordinate and arrange for the work of several trades in connection with performing work from information received from technical work documents, blueprints, specifications, written and/or oral instructions.
• Engineer, steam, machinist, installation, marine erector, marine machinist, outfitter, outside-installation machinist Installs ship machinery, for example propelling machinery, auxiliary motors, pumps, ventilating equipment, and steering gear, working from blueprints and using handtools, calipers, and micrometers.
• Lays out passage holes on bulkheads, decks, and other surfaces for connections, for example shafting and steam lines.
• Installs below-deck auxiliaries, for example evaporators, stills, heaters, pumps, condensers, and boilers and connects them to steampipe systems.
• Tests and inspects installed machinery and equipment during dock and sea trials.
• May also set up and operate such machine shop tools as lathe, boring mill, planer, shaper, slotter, and milling machine to fabricate replacement parts.

Benefits:

• Paid accrued vacation time.
• Health and dental insurance.
• Weekly pay.