Chesapeake
2022-12-06Questions? Call 757-543-0100
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
Company Information
Tidewater Staffing Offers:
- Weekly Pay
- Full-Time Employment
- Insurance Benefits
- Referral Bonus Program
- Temp-to-Hire Job Opportunities
- Free Training Programs
- Direct Deposit | Money Network Cards
Tidewater Staffing is an Equal Opportunity Employer*