About This Role
This role involves the handling, maintenance, and repair of deck equipment and general housekeeping functions on various floating plant vessels. It suits a candidate with the ability to perform a variety of manual laboring tasks under normal supervision.
Responsibilities
- Perform handling and fastening lines to moor plant and to make tow
- Load stores and supplies to and from plant
- Clean, wash, scrub, and chip rust in connection with daily housekeeping and preparatory to painting
- Paint deck, superstructure, and machinery works as helper in repair of machinery and equipment
- Heave lead line
- Operate capstans, winches, and similar deck equipment
- Grease and service deck equipment
- Disconnect dredge pipe lines, install new sections in lines, shift pontoons, remove obstructions from dust pan, and replace heavy fittings under mate or head deck-hand
- Splice cables and lines
- Row lifeboats
Requirements
- Ability to do the work of a Deckhand without more than normal supervision, including performing a variety of work involved in the maintenance and repair of the deck and general housekeeping functions on dredges, towboats, barges, or other floating plant vessels such duties as handling mooring lines and cables, performing light rigging and other assigned manual laboring tasks
- Work Practices (including keeping things neat, clean, and in order)
- Ability to Interpret Instructions, Specifications, etc. (related to mobile equipment operation)
- Reliability and Dependability as a Deckhand
Important Details
- Physical effort: Required in the handling of heavy equipment and machinery; may lift up to 50 pounds or more; may involve long periods of standing, lifting, climbing, and walking; may be required to wear respiratory projection
- Working conditions: Works both inside and outside during a variety of weather conditions and climates, including extremes of heat and cold and heavy rainfall; danger of slipping from floating plant into water with possibility of physical injury or drowning; on-shore work may involve working in mud, snow, or ice in dirty or cramped situations
