Rigger J1 - J4

This position is located in Norfolk, Virginia. We are looking for 10 Riggers across all shifts.

About the Role

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 other heavy loads aboard ships. Works in engine rooms, boiler rooms, aloft, or in confined spaces as required.

Responsibilities

• Select and attach chainfalls, jacks, rollers, levers, and/or pulleys according to types of loads being moved.
• Signal cranes or other equipment to move loads.
• Control movement of heavy equipment through narrow openings or in confined spaces.
• Lay out and handle lines on cleats or bollards and haul in ships with capstans when assisting dock master in ship dry docking operations.
• Install or repair ships’ rigging such as mast on antenna wires, small boat handling gear, shipboard cranes, winches, windlass, replenishment, and weight handling equipment.
• Move barges and derricks with tug boats and yard boats.
• Splice natural and synthetic ropes, tie knots, and use electric, pneumatic, and hand-powered tools.
• Operate forklifts and aerial lifts.

Requirements

• Thorough knowledge of shackles, natural, synthetic, and wire ropes, steamboat jacks, hydraulic jacks, turnbuckles, rollers, chainfalls, clamps, swivels, and crane signals.
• Knowledge of shipboard nomenclature and OSHA standards.
• Ability to work in engine rooms, boiler rooms, aloft, or in confined spaces.

Pay & Schedule

Shifts: 06:00 - 14:45 or 15:00 - 23:00 (all shifts available).