Machinery Trades Assistant

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Reports to: Machinery Supervisor

• Maintains overall safe work practices and adheres to safety policies and procedures
• Ability to ensure quality of own work
• Ensure correct construction procedures are adhered to in compliance with Austal USA standards and project specifications
• Able to receive and carry out verbal and written instructions
• Ability to work as part of a team and within assigned roles
• Maintains housekeeping, keeps worksite free of rubbish, keeps materials and equipment stowed in an orderly manner
• Conserves waste of consumables and other material
• Accountable for completion of daily work assignments including the completion and signatures for work completion and quality
• Able to learn on-the-job as an on-the-job trainee
• Assists or works with other trades or Austal USA employees as directed (may be assigned tasks outside craft as required)
• Monitors working environment for compliance with quality, safety, environmental and health regulations and report deficiencies to supervisor
• Must comply with the Austal USA’s “Equal Opportunity and Anti-Harassment Policy” which expects that all relationships among persons in the workplace will be professional and free of bias, prejudice, and harassment
• Must comply with the Austal USA’s Employee Handbook

• Applicable Trade Technical Diploma, Certificate or equivalent preferred
• 1 year of craft experience, or experience in similar industry performing comparable tasks is preferred
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide required
• Ability to measure using Metric and English system required
• Knowledge of shipyard terminology such as general ship structure and vessel layout preferred
• Ability to understand directions and follow instructions; both oral and written required
• Assesses well on Wiesen Test of Mechanical Aptitude (WTMA)
• Must obtain and maintain applicable certifications required to perform essential functions required

Familiar with use and function of power and hand tools.

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• 18 years or older at time of application
• Able to provide proof of US Person status (permanent resident or citizen)
• No felony convictions of theft/deception or violent crimes within seven years from disposition date
• No felony convictions of drug crimes within three years from disposition date
• Willing to submit to a drug screen
• Willing to submit to a background check

High School Diploma/GED or comparable trade experience with comparable trade experience defined as five (5) or more years of experience working in the applicable trade, two (2) years of experience in shipbuilding, or, education in the trade comparable to apprenticeship.

Production Department Supervisors and Foremen, Health, Safety and Environmental, and trade personnel.

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. Must be able to tour all vessels and work sites. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to manipulate, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb and balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk or hear.

The employee is occasionally required to sit.

Specific physical requirements include but are not limited to the following:

• Must have the ability to bend, squat, stoop, crawl, and kneel.
• Perform prolonged standing.
• Ability to turn head from side to side and about the vertical axis.
• Ability to turn body at the waist from side to side and about the vertical axis.
• Lift/push/pull 50lbs to 75lbs on an occasional basis.
• Lift/push/pull up to 20lbs on a frequent basis.
• Must have the ability to climb in a safe manner (climbing as a minimum includes stairs, scaffolding, ladders, and ramps).
• Ability to work at heights above 12’ while working from ladders, scaffolding and/or man lifts.
• Able to work at a variety of levels (ex. waist, eye, overhead).
• Demonstrate the ability to safely and appropriately use required tools and equipment.
• Demonstrate good balance while working on…