Machinist Journeyman - Day Shift

Overview

Description

Who We Are:

Vigor Marine Group is an established, innovative, integrated partner with a national footprint in marine maintenance and modernization, marine fabrication, and marine services. With four shipyards, six dry docks, and more than 20,000 feet of pier space on or near U.S. Naval bases and at historic shipyards, our 2,500 dedicated employees across four states—from the Pacific Northwest to San Diego to Norfolk—personify the values of our company.

Vigor Marine Group takes pride in being the employer of choice for our employees, who in turn take great pride in their contributions to the communities where they live and work, and to their nation through living wage jobs supporting local economies and world-class maritime and industrial services that support defense readiness and national security. For more information, visit

Hourly Rate: $40.26

This position handles the mechanical maintenance, occasional emergent repair of ships, and, at times, yard mechanical maintenance.

• Complies with craft and shipyard safety and environmental measures
• Takes direction and requires limited guidance to conduct assignment
• Replaces defective parts on equipment, adjusts clearances and alignment of moving parts
• Aligns machines and equipment, using hoists, jacks, hand tools, squares, rules, micrometers, and plumb bobs
• Assemble and install equipment, using hand tools and power tools
• Positions steel beams to support bedplates of machines and equipment, using blueprints and schematic drawings, to determine work procedures
• Moves machinery and equipment, using chain hoists, dollies, rollers, and trucks
• Assembles machines and mounts them to a foundation or other structures, using hand tools and power tools
• Lays out mounting holes accurately and drills holes to the proper size
• Shrink-fits bushings, sleeves, rings, liners, gears, and wheels to specified items using thermal expansion or liquid nitrogen technique
• Knowledge of rigging and overhead crane operation, lifting device use and inspection and load calculations
• Demonstrates proficiency on a milling machine, drill press, engine lathe, and vertical/horizontal boring mills
• Operates a lathe to grind, file, or turn parts down to dimensional specifications
• Aligns pump and motors efficiently using the dial indicator method
• Ability to work at heights and in confined spaces
• Communicates effectively, works independently or in a group
• Ability to do basic math and read, write, speak, and comprehend English
• Ability to perform percentages, metric and decimal conversions, and multiply fractions and decimals for measurements
• Reads and understands blueprints and assembly drawings

• Knowledge of standard shop measuring tools: micrometers (inside, outside, depth), vernier scales and/or dial calipers, rulers and tape measures, indicators, protractors, vernier, linear, firm and spring joint calipers, height gauges, pi tapes
• Use hand tools such as files, hacksaws, wrenches, porta-powers, taps, and dies

• Working knowledge of shipboard machinery (valves, actuators, pumps, gears, gear boxes, winches, heat exchangers, bearings and shafting, rudder systems, field machining) related to machine shop repairs
• Propulsion basics including variable pitch props
• Pumps types and mechanical seals
• Steam systems
• Underwater hull machinery and bearings
• Blowers, winches, hydraulic and pneumatic equipment
• Shipboard systems including condensers, heat exchangers, fuel, lube oil, and cooling
• Knowledge of overboard and suction ship valves (disassembly, clean, lap and blue)

• High school diploma, GED, or greater
• 5 years of relevant work experience preferred
• Proven skills: work history and/or applicable education will be considered in lieu of work experience

• Sitting:
  Occasionally
• Standing:
  Continually
• Walking:
  Frequently
• Crouching:
  Occasionally
• Kneeling/Crawling:
  Rarely
• Stooping:
  Rarely
• Twisting:
  Knees – Rarely, Waist – Occasionally, Neck – Occasionally
• Climbing:
  Occasionally
• Balancing:
  Occasionally
• Leg/Foot Use:
  Occasionally for machine controls
• Reaching Overhead:
  Occasionally
• Handling/Grasping:
  Frequently
• Fingering/Feeling:
  …