OUTSIDE MACHINIST A

TYPICAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Works from blueprints and use hand tools, calipers and micrometers.
• Lay out passage holes on bulk heads, 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 such machine shop tools as a lathe, boring mill, planer, shaper, slotter and milling machine to fabricate replacement parts.

DESIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

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

DESIRED EXPERIENCE & TRAINING

• 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 A class machinist or 8 years A class millwright experience.