Rigger, Trades ​/ Skilled Labor

Tidewater Staffing is currently seeking Riggers for work in Norfolk, VA, Chesapeake, VA, Portsmouth, VA, and Hampton, VA shipyards.

Job Duties

• 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.