Riggers Needed Immediately! - Norfolk, VA

Job Description:

• Must have LEVEL 1 Rigger Certification from NCCCO
• Must have 2-5 years’ experience in heavy shipboard rigging
• 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 standard

Pay starting at $25.00/hour

Per Diem: $120 *Per Diem Available for Those Who Qualify

Long Term Assignments Available (Up to 2 years)

ACA Health Insurance Benefits Available

Please contact our Virginia Beach office at 757-420-0555 and choose option 6 or email us at trades@integritystaffing.net with any questions or inquiries