Gas Free Tank Cleaners

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Description: Cleaning inside small tanks on government vessels.

Pay: $14-$16/hr

Day shift: Start time is 5am (10 hour workday)

Responsibilities:

• Check tanks to make sure properly inspected for hazardous materials
• Ensure that the right equipment is on-site for the task that needs to be accomplished
• Remove contamination from tanks in a safe and efficient manner using shovels, squeegees, brooms, scrapers, hoses, water, and solvent
• Sweeps up debris and sludge into buckets or wheelbarrows or down chutes
• Wash bilge’s tanks: remove gas, water, and oil from vessels and fix blocked pipes
• Ensure that the runbak is wiped out of the tanks
• Open or help with the opening of deep good inspection covers in a safe manner
• Control cost in assigned area of responsibility
• Be able to adapt in an environment with extreme temperature exposure
• Exercise proper procedures for confined spaces
• Will climb into tanks via vertical ladder or inclined ladder (average 50-60ft)
• Operate and maintain boilers at Gas Free shop
• Assist in cleanup of oil spills
• Clean and dispose of hazardous and nonhazardous materials, gas, sludge, oil, etc. throughout the shipyard
• Board ships via stairs, ladders, and gangways with tool bags and needed equipment
• Will prepare the tank for cleaning and setting up lights, air hoses, and pumps. Setting up pumps requires pulling hoses to position and hooking up to pump and slop tanks
• Understand and act upon instruction
• Work independently to complete responsibilities
• Will be required to wear personal protective equipment-hard hat, safety glasses, steel toe boots/shoes, and when necessary a respirator

Qualifications:

• Must be FULLY vaccinated
• Must have 3+ years of shipboard Gas Free experience
• Must be able to work overtime if requested
• Must have experience driving flatbeds, operating a vacuum truck, and daily cleaning of tanks
• Properly inspect tanks for hazardous materials, endure the proper equipment is on-site so tasks may be accomplished
• Perform all gas-free essential duties on all types of commercial and government vessels