Job Description

Tidewater Staffing is currently seeking Riggers for work in Norfolk, VA.

JOURNEYPERSON 4 (Rigging)

•   Fabricates, installs and repairs rigging and weight handling gear on ships. 
• Attaches hoists and pulling gear to lift, move, remove, install or position machinery, equipment, structural parts and order heavy loads aboard ships. 
• Selects and attaches chainfalls, jacks, rollers, levers and/or pulleys according to types of loads being moved. 
• Signals cranes or other equipment to move loads.
• Controls movement of heavy equipment through narrow openings or in confined spaces. 
• Lays out and handles lines on cleats or bollards and hauls in ships with capstans when assisting dock master in ship dry docking operations. 
• Installs or repairs ships’ rigging such as mast on antenna wires, small boat handling gear, shipboard cranes, winches, windless, replenishment and weight handling equipment. 
• Move barges and derricks with tug boats and yard boats. 
• Works in engine rooms, boiler rooms, aloft or in confined spaces as required. 
• Thorough 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. 
• Splice natural and synthetic ropes, tying knots, use of electric, pneumatic and hand powered tools. 
• Knowledge of OSHA standards.

JOURNEYPERSON 3 (Rigging)

• Attaches hoists and pulling gear to lift, move, remove, install or position machinery, equipment, structural parts and other heavy loads aboard ship. 
• Selects and attaches chainfalls, jacks, rollers, lever and/or pulleys according to types of loads being moved. 
• Signals cranes or other equipment to move loads, controls movement of heavy equipment through narrow openings or in confined spaces. 
• Handles lines on cleats or bollards when assisting the dock master in ship dry docking operations. 
• Moves barges and derricks with tug boats and yard boats. 
• Works in engine rooms, boiler rooms, aloft or in confined spaces as required. 
• Knowledge of OSHA standards.

  JOURNEYPERSON 2 (Rigging)

• Attaches hoists and pulling gear to lift, move, remove, install or position machinery, equipment, structural parts and other heavy loads aboard ships. 
• Signals cranes or other equipment to move loads. 
• Controls 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. 
• Moves barges and derricks with tug boats. 
• Works in engine rooms, boiler rooms, aloft or in confined spaces as required. 
• Knowledge of shackles, chainfalls, natural, synthetic and wire ropes, turnbuckles, rollers, clamps and crane signals. 
• Splice natural and synthetic ropes tying knots. 
• Use if electric, pneumatic and hand tools.
• Operate forklifts and aerial lifts.

JOURNEYPERSON 1 (Rigging)

• Assist in attaching hoist and pulling gear to lift, move, remove, install or position machinery, equipment, structural parts or other loads abroad ship. 
• Assist in the movement of equipment through narrow openings or in confined spaces. 
• Assist in line handling operations, assist in the erection of staging in tanks, above decks, on mast, yardarms and ship’s sides. 
• Works in engine rooms, boiler rooms, aloft or in confined spaces as required. 
• Knowledge of shackles, chainfalls, natural, synthetic and wire ropes, turnbuckles, rollers, clamps and crane signals. 
• Splicing natural ropes. 
• Tying knots operate forklifts and aerial lifts. 
• Use of hand tools.

Since 1992, Tidewater Staffing, Inc. has been providing unrivaled workforce solutions for our clients in the ship repair, warehousing, and light industrial/manufacturing industries. Through the years, we’ve dedicated ourselves to solving staffing challenges efficiently, economically, and with integrity by embodying our mission statement: “Put people to work. Do the right thing every day.”

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