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Marine Blaster
Job Summary & Essential Duties
Position is responsible for the daily operation and utilization of high-pressure blasting equipment. Candidate is expected to:
- Work in a physically demanding environment; crawling, kneeling, and climbing vertical ladders.
- Set-up and operate various types of blasting equipment, to include: compressor, pot, silo, vacuum, dust collector, air dryer, blast hose, and vacuum hose.
- Operate various types of blast equipment.
- Understand and practice all safety regulations for blasting equipment and surrounding spaces.
- Operate and maintain an air-fed helmet and/or soft hood air-fed respirator and a negative-pressure half-face respirator.
- Work in confined spaces and work at various heights.
- Maintain a personal practice of safety.
- Work all shifts to include overtime and weekends.
Required/Preferred Education/Training
- Three (3) or more years of demonstrated experience in using high pressure blast equipment.
- Ability to quality for operation of a JLG and fork truck.
- Individual holds a current C7 certification from the Society of Protective Coatings (SSPC).
Required Screening
- Must be able to pass a Hair Follicle Drug Screening and a background check.
- Ability to satisfy hands-on testing as witnessed by MSP Quality Assurance Manager. Testing will include wet and dry abrasive blasting on ferrous and non-ferrous steel surfaces.
Marine Fitter
Job Summary
Position is responsible for completing fitting assignments as prescribed by job specifics. Candidate is expected to:
- Read, interpret, plan, and execute work assignment from drawings and procedures.
- Measure, cut, grind, fit, align, and tack weld parts that form the structural body of the ship.
- Work a variety of shift hours as required by production.
- Wear personal protective equipment for safety (respirators).
Essential Duties
As a critical team member for Marine Specialty Painting, a Fitter ensures success by:
- Managing all aspects of interior structures, hatches, doors, and bulkheads to complete all steelwork in a ship or other industrial application.
- Supporting all new construction, ship repair, and ship overhauls by applying skills in the shops, platens, dry-docks, and onboard ship applications.
- Demonstrating knowledge and ability to use a variety of tools and measuring devices.
Required/Preferred Experience/Training
- Minimum of three (3) years of experience (fitter, carpentry, construction, sheet metal, welding HVAC, and mechanical) to be considered.
- Pass a physical agility test.
- Communicating with various levels of management.
Project Manager
Job Summary
Position is responsible for completing fitting assignments as prescribed by job specifics. Candidate is expected to:
- Implement and monitor execution adherence to project budgets, schedules, and expenditures.
- Assemble, plan, lead, and facilitate regular project team meetings with company personnel, subcontractors, and the customer.
- Perform workload assessment, including short and long-term resource allocation plans based on inputs from Senior Managers and team members.
- Identify changes in work scope to ensure schedules and budgets are properly amended through appropriate planning.
- Identify risk that may impact the project and develop mitigation plans/actions.
- Provide resolution for conflicts pertaining to production and schedules and disseminate to the project team.
Essential Duties
As a team leader for Marine Specialty Painting, a Project Manager ensures success by:
- Assisting in the development of overall project manpower budgets.
- Developing initial project schedules in accordance with scope and customer milestones.
- Managing topline budgets for materials and equipment.
- Developing effective and efficient meeting agendas.
- Assigning and follow through with action items.
- Working closely with Production Management to identify manning curves and develop plans to ensure labor and tread resources are adequately assigned.
- Managing status reports (analyze results, troubleshoot problems, identify solutions).
- Identifying impacts and accurately articulate condition found reports (CFRS).
Required/Preferred Experience/Training
- Seven (7) or more years of relevant working experience in ship construction or industrial repair.
- Five (5) or more years of supervision experience.
- Two (2) or more years of project management experience.
Required/Preferred Experience
- Understanding of Navy Standard Items 009-32, desired; understanding of SSPC Systems and Specifications, desired.
- Good reading, writing and verbal communication skills to include public speaking.
- Able to handle multiple tasks and follow through on assigned tasks with some supervision.
- Good time management skills with the ability work independently.
- Must have good work ethic and be able to maintain confidentiality.
- Must be able to pass background screening and be eligible to obtain a DBIDS badge.
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Office.
Quality Assurance Inspector
Job Summary
Position is responsible for the daily inspection Incumbent is expected to:
- Perform visual inspections on complex dimensions.
- Perform daily pre-inspections and scheduled customer inspections.
- Enter confined spaces to perform inspections (frequent climbing, bending, walking, crawling, etc.)
- Utilize inspection equipment, to include basic calibration requirements.
- Prove proficiency to work with specification items, drawings, technical manuals, and NAVSEA.
- Draft and submit required reports and condition found reports (CFR) as required.
- Identify Departures from Specification (DFS), and provide all Objective Quality Evidence (OQE) required to draft and submit a DFS for acceptance.
- Set-up and close out jobs, including TIPs, filing for OQE records, checkpoint notifications, etc.
- Conduct Corrective Action Request (CAR) surveillance for close out.
- Plan and manage a system for control of non-conforming product and implement corrective and preventive action.
Essential Duties
- Performing visual acuity is mandatory.
- Understanding of basic measurements.
- Ensuring all test and inspection requirements are identified or captured in the test and inspection plan.
- Identifying needed modifications to the Test and Inspection (TIP) to ensure implementation of:
- Request for Contract Change (RCC)
- Engineering Service Request (ESR)
- Condition Found Report (CFR)
Required/Preferred Experience/Training
- Minimum of NACE I or NBPI active certification.
- 1 + years of Shipboard QA experience.
Required/Preferred Experience
- Understand of Navy Standard Items 009-32, desired; understanding of SSPC Systems and Specifications.
- Proficient reading, writing, and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent time management skills with the ability to work independently.
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Office.
Spray Painter
Job Summary
Position is responsible for daily coating operations and applications as indicated by customer and industry specifications. Candidate is expected to:
- Work various shifts to include overtime and weekends.
- Demonstrate skill to use, operate, and maintain an air-fed helmet and/or soft hood air-fed respirator and a negative-pressure half-face respirator.
- Exhibit ability to quality for operation of a JLG and fork truck.
- Work in confined spaces and at various heights.
Essential Duties
As a team member for Marine Specialty Painting, a Spray Painter ensures success by:
- Independently setting up and connecting airless and plural pump painting equipment including adjustment of nozzles on the spray guns to obtain the proper dispersion of the spray.
- Functioning in a physically demanding environment; crawling, kneeling, climbing vertical ladders.
- Understanding blueprints, specifications, and blueprints determining operating conditions.
Required/Preferred Experience/Training
- C14 qualification candidates must have the ability to operate the plural pump and all associate components for 2-part epoxy application.
- Individual holds a current, C12 or C14 (if plural components) certification from the Society of Protective Coatings (SSPC)
- Ability to satisfy hands-on testing as witnessed by MSP QA Mgr. Testing will include setup, spraying a mock-up plate with appendages, and cleanup. QA will assess the coating IAW Standard Item requirements. Test for C14 will evaluate paint mixing/setup at the plural pump.
Required/Preferred Experience
- Three (3) or more years of demonstrated experience in applying marine coating of epoxy, high solid epoxy, and non-epoxy paints.
- Working with various coating materials.
Structural Welder
Job Summary
Position is responsible for completing welding assignments as prescribed by job specifics. Candidate is expected to:
- Responsible for the welding of metal fabricated parts.
- Responsible for utilizing various welding processes and positions within a shipbuilding environment or outside industry.
- Develop standard for inspection integrity.
- Work in areas that require physical stamina.
Essential Duties
As a critical team member for Marine Specialty Painting, a Structural Welder ensures success by:
- Understanding directives and critical welding data.
- Providing feedback on job related tasks.
- Commanding ownership and accountability of specific welding tools.
- Demonstrating knowledge of cleaning, storing, and maintaining all welding equipment.
Required/Preferred Experience/Training
- Minimum of three (3) years of work experience in FCAW (Flux Core) and SWAW (Stick).
- Ability to pass military standard tests in the vertical (3G), horizontal (2G), and overhead (4G) positions.
- Ability to successfully pass weld test for x-ray quality.
Superintendent
Job Summary
Position is responsible for daily operations and job site goal implementation. Incumbent is expected to:
- Monitor deck plate trades to ensure implementation of process and best practices (ensuring proper workmanship).
- Provide support and clear communication on deck-plates in all areas of work site.
- Ensure that all trade practices and processes produce quality results while ensuring a safe and efficient work site.
- Work closely with Project Management to continually monitor trade cost and schedule performance.
- Manage personnel resource management.
- Identify skill insufficiencies and provide on the job training (accessing needs for replacements where necessary).
- Prepare and train personnel for promotion potential of all skilled tradesman, supervisors, etc.
- Work with Project Management to ensure efficient manning labor, skilled trades, and supervision is properly assigned.
Essential Duties
As a team leader for Marine Specialty Painting, a Superintendent ensures success by:
- Ensuring responsibility for trades work targeting first time quality in accordance with standards and requirements.
- Ascertaining responsibility for trades work in accordance with safety practices and regulations.
- Managing hiring, job assignments and transitions, and terminations.
- Providing leadership and single point of authority from production needs.
- Identifying training needs for all positions on deck plates.
Required/Preferred Experience/Training
- CAS, NACE Level 1 or NBPI certification preferred.
Required/Preferred Experience
- Ten (10) or more years of progressive supervisory/management experience in a shipbuilding environment/marine painting and/or abrasive blasting process and/or applications required.
- Understand Navy Standard Items 009-32, desired; understand SSPC Systems and Specifications, desired.
- Solid understanding of blast equipment and set up, onsite operations, and troubleshooting.
- Basic Email and computer skills.
- Excellent organizational skills required.