Outside Machinist

General Function

The outside machinist is responsible for installing the vessel’s machinery, such as propelling machinery, auxiliary motors, pumps, ventilating equipment, and steering gears.

Works from blueprints and uses hand tools, calipers and micrometers.

Layout passage holes on bulkheads, decks, and other surfaces for connections such as shafting and steam lines.

Installs below deck auxiliaries such as evaporators, stills, heaters, pumps, condensers, and boilers and connects them to steam pipe systems.

Responsible for testing and inspecting installed machinery and equipment during dock and sea trials.

May set‑up and operate machine shop tools such as a lathe, boring mill, planer, shaper, slotter and milling machine to fabricate replacement parts.

Knowledge of gauges, calipers, micrometers, lathes, boring mills, planers, shapers, slotters and milling machines. Capable of reading blueprints.

Prior experience as an outside machinist or boilermaker in a heavy industrial or shipbuilding environment. Vocational training in the field of machinist is helpful.

• 5 years of outside machinist work as an A class machinist or 8 years of A class millwright experience.

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