Rigger

Lehigh Heavy Forge Corporation; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Tidewater Staffing is seeking skilled Riggers for shipyard work in Norfolk and surrounding Virginia Beach area.

You will fabricate, install, and repair rigging and weight handling gear on ships, attach hoists, signal cranes, and move heavy loads in confined spaces.

Candidates should be familiar with OSHA standards and operate forklifts and aerial lifts.

Qualifications

• Experience with rigging and weight handling gear on ships.
• Knowledge of OSHA standards.
• Ability to signal and coordinate crane movements.
• Experience operating forklifts and aerial lifts.

Responsibilities

• Fabricates, installs and repairs rigging and weight handling gear on ships.
• Attaches hoists and pulling gear to move or position machinery and loads aboard ships.
• Signals cranes or other equipment to move loads and controls movement in confined spaces.
• Lays out lines on cleats or bollards and assists in ship dry docking operations.
• Moves barges and derricks with tug boats and yard boats.

Skills

Rigging

Heavy Lifting

Crane Signals

Forklifts

Aerial Lifts

Tools

Forklifts

Aerial Lifts

Chainfalls

Pulleys

Turnbuckles

Job description

Tidewater Staffing is currently seeking Riggers for work in Norfolk, VA, Chesapeake, VA, Portsmouth, VA, and Hampton, VA shipyards.

Job Duties

• 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 standards.

JOURNEYPERSON 3 (Rigging)

• Attaches hoists and pulling gear to lift, move, remove, install or position machinery, equipment, structural parts and other heavy loads aboard ship.
• Selects and attaches chainfalls, jacks, rollers, lever 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.
• Handles lines on cleats or bollards when assisting the dock master in ship dry docking operations.
• Moves barges and derricks with tug boats and yard boats.
• Works in engine rooms, boiler rooms, aloft or in confined spaces as required.
• Knowledge of OSHA standards.

JOURNEYPERSON 2 (Rigging)

• Attaches hoists and pulling gear to lift, move, remove, install or position machinery, equipment, structural parts and other heavy loads aboard ships.
• Signals cranes or other equipment to move loads.
• Controls movement of equipment through narrow openings or in confined spaces, handles lines on cleats or bollards when assisting the dock master in the ship dry docking operations.
• Moves barges and derricks with tug boats.
• Works in engine rooms, boiler rooms, aloft or in confined spaces as required.
• Knowledge of shackles, chainfalls, natural, synthetic and wire ropes, turnbuckles, rollers, clamps and crane signals.
• Splice natural and synthetic ropes tying knots.
• Use if electric, pneumatic and hand tools.
• Operate forklifts and aerial lifts.

JOURNEYPERSON 1 (Rigging)

• Assist in attaching hoist and pulling gear to lift, move, remove, install or position machinery, equipment, structural parts or other loads abroad ship.
• Assist in the movement of equipment through narrow openings or in confined spaces.
• Assist in line handling operations, assist in the erection of staging in tanks, above decks, on mast, yardarms and ship’s sides.
• Works in engine rooms, boiler rooms, aloft or in confined spaces as required.
• Knowledge of shackles, chainfalls, natural, synthetic and wire ropes, turnbuckles, rollers, clamps and crane signals.
• Splicing natural ropes.
• Tying knots operate forklifts and aerial lifts.
• Use of hand tools.