Marine Machinery Technician

The Marine Machinery Technician position is responsible for the installation, maintenance, and repair of propulsion machinery, sea valves, steering gear, anchor handling equipment, elevators, pumps, ventilation fans, cooling coils, refrigeration units, compressors, weapons systems, remote operators, radars, and antennas. In this role, you will gain experience in the use of math, blueprints, precision tooling, and portable machine tools.

Key Responsibilities:

• Overhaul, maintain, and test pumps, valves, turbines, condensers, shafts, rudders, and winches.
• Set up and operate portable machining tools and equipment.
• Apply basic machine shop math to complete tasks.
• Lay out passage holes on bulkheads, decks, and other surfaces for connections, such as shafting and steam lines.
• Test and inspect installed machinery and equipment during dock and sea trials.
• Install below-deck auxiliaries, including evaporators, stills, heaters, pumps, condensers, and boilers, and connect them to steampipe systems.
• Care for and safely use hand and power tools, as well as company property.
• Work independently to complete responsibilities.
• Assist in determining repairs and bring equipment to rebuilt status.
• Install and repair foundations for operating machinery and principal structures/components of ship's armament.
• Demonstrate layout proficiency.

Work Environment:

This job operates inside and aboard ships both offshore and onshore as well as confined spaces. While performing some duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) must be worn when required. Visits may require standing on various surfaces and at differing angles, bending over, crouching, and climbing up and over obstructions like scaffolding, ladders, and internal barge and boat structural members.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Education and Experience Requirements:

1. Able to disassemble, repair, and install various types of equipment and machinery, such as pumps, valves, winches, and gearboxes.
2. Install and repair foundations for operating machinery and principal structures/components of ship's armament.
3. Candidate must possess 3-5 or more years of experience as a marine outside machinist.
4. Installs below-deck auxiliaries, including evaporators, stills, heaters, pumps, condensers, and boilers, and connects them to steampipe systems.
5. Dry dock experience on shafts, rudders, stabilizers, and propellers is preferred.
6. Tests and inspects installed machinery and equipment during dock and sea trials.
7. Capable of reading and interpreting blueprints and schematic drawings.
8. Ability to work at heights, in confined spaces, and observe ships working protocol.
9. Lays out passage holes on bulkheads, decks, and other surfaces for connections, such as shafting and steam lines.
10. Ability to lift to 50lbs consistently.
11. Experience with Diesel Engines is a plus.
12. Thorough knowledge of how to repair motors, shafts, pumps, and valves.
13. 3+ years of experience working as an Outside Machinist, Industrial Mechanic, Machinist Mate, or Enginemen.
14. Must be able to obtain a TWIC and D-Bids badges via a background check.

$70,000 - $90,000 per year.