Join Nationwide Skilled Trades, a family-owned shipyard staffing agency that has been serving the industry for over 30 years. We are hiring an Outside Machinist with 3+ years of experience. An Outside Machinist must possess knowledge, skills and abilities to perform job operation/tasks on conventional and nuclear ships and submarines. This position is ideal for candidates with hands-on shipyard or industrial machining experience. Work will include installation, repair, testing, and overhaul of a wide range of shipboard and industrial machinery.
- Must be able to gain access to military installations.
- Able to work 1st Shift with occasional extended hours and weekends required.
- DBIDS ELIGIBLE
JOB DESCRIPTION:
- 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 pier side 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 hand tools, 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.
“Consider it Done” with Nationwide Skilled Trades! Nationwide Skilled Trades has over 30 years of experience serving the Shipyard, Construction and Light Industrial industry nationwide and are experts in recruiting, testing and training our employees. We provide staffing and management support for a wide variety of projects, across the nation.
Nationwide Skilled Trades is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or any characteristic protected by law.
