Rigger

Job DescriptionTidewater Staffing is currently seeking Riggers for work in Norfolk, VA, Chesapeake, VA, Portsmouth, VA, and Hampton, VA shipyards.Job Duties\n\nFabricates, installs and repairs rigging and weight handling gear on ships.\nAttaches hoists and pulling gear to lift, move, remove, install or position machinery, equipment, structural parts and order heavy loads aboard ships.\nSelects and attaches chainfalls, jacks, rollers, levers and/or pulleys according to types of loads being moved.\nSignals cranes or other equipment to move loads.\nControls movement of heavy equipment through narrow openings or in confined spaces.\nLays out and handles lines on cleats or bollards and hauls in ships with capstans when assisting dock master in ship dry docking operations.\nInstalls or repairs ships' rigging such as mast on antenna wires, small boat handling gear, shipboard cranes, winches, windless, replenishment and weight handling equipment.\nMove barges and derricks with tug boats and yard boats.\nWorks in engine rooms, boiler rooms, aloft or in confined spaces as required.\nThorough 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.\nSplice natural and synthetic ropes, tying knots, use of electric, pneumatic and hand powered tools.\nKnowledge of OSHA standards.\n\nJOURNEYPERSON 3 (Rigging):\n\nAttaches hoists and pulling gear to lift, move, remove, install or position machinery, equipment, structural parts and other heavy loads aboard ship.\nSelects and attaches chainfalls, jacks, rollers, lever and/or pulleys according to types of loads being moved.\nSignals cranes or other equipment to move loads, controls movement of heavy equipment through narrow openings or in confined spaces.\nHandles lines on cleats or bollards when assisting the dock master in ship dry docking operations.\nMoves barges and derricks with tug boats and yard boats.\nWorks in engine rooms, boiler rooms, aloft or in confined spaces as required.\nKnowledge of OSHA standards.\n\nJOURNEYPERSON 2 (Rigging):\n\nAttaches hoists and pulling gear to lift, move, remove, install or position machinery, equipment, structural parts and other heavy loads aboard ships.\nSignals cranes or other equipment to move loads.\nControls 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.\nMoves barges and derricks with tug boats.\nWorks in engine rooms, boiler rooms, aloft or in confined spaces as required.\nKnowledge of shackles, chainfalls, natural, synthetic and wire ropes, turnbuckles, rollers, clamps and crane signals.\nSplice natural and synthetic ropes tying knots.\nUse if electric, pneumatic and hand tools.\nOperate forklifts and aerial lifts.\n\nJOURNEYPERSON 1 (Rigging):\n\nAssist in attaching hoist and pulling gear to lift, move, remove, install or position machinery, equipment, structural parts or other loads abroad ship.\nAssist in the movement of equipment through narrow openings or in confined spaces.\nAssist in line handling operations, assist in the erection of staging in tanks, above decks, on mast, yardarms and ship's sides.\nWorks in engine rooms, boiler rooms, aloft or in confined spaces as required.\nKnowledge of shackles, chainfalls, natural, synthetic and wire ropes, turnbuckles, rollers, clamps and crane signals.\nSplicing natural ropes.\nTying knots operate forklifts and aerial lifts.\nUse of hand tools.\n