Rigger

Shipyard Staffing is currently hiring for Riggers for work in Norfolk, VA.

Job Description:

• Rigger - The Rigger must possess knowledge, skills, and abilities sufficient to perform a full range of rigging duties, considering factors such as size, shape, and location of the object and the availability and strength of overhead support structures. The following is a list of typical work that the Rigger might be asked to perform:
• Plan, lay out, assemble, repair, and install complex weight handling gear and various standing and running rigging.
• Have a thorough knowledge of rigging procedures and equipment.
• Move ship’s engines, generators, turbines, pumps, boilers, structural shapes, and plates, ordnance equipment such as bombs, torpedoes, and ammunition, and delicate electronic equipment such as sonar gear.
• There is a continuing requirement to test various gear for strength and safety. As required the rigger assists divers in salvage work, move salvage equipment and raise objects to be salvaged.
• 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.

Requirements:

• Must have Rigger 1 Certification
• OSHA 10 Maritime
• Must be U.S. Citizen
• Must be 18 years of age or older

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