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Mechanical Maintenance Technician

Vigor Marine Group is an established, innovative, integrated partner with a national footprint in marine maintenance and modernization, marine fabrication, and marine services. With four shipyards, six dry docks, and more than 20,000 feet of pier space on or near U.S. Naval bases and at historic shipyards, our 2,500 dedicated employees across four states from the Pacific Northwest to San Diego to Norfolk personify the values of our company. Vigor Marine Group takes pride in being the employer of choice for our employees, who in turn take great pride in their contributions to the communities where they live and work, and to their nation through their living wage jobs supporting their local economies, and through the world-class maritime and industrial services they provide to further our defense readiness and national security.

This position handles the mechanical maintenance and repair of all PDX facility cranes, dry-docks, buildings, equipment, and piping systems.

Essential Functions and Major Responsibilities:

• Replace defective parts of machine or adjust clearances and alignment of moving parts.
• Align machines and equipment, using hoists, jacks, hand tools, squares, rules, micrometers, and plumb bobs.
• Connect power unit to machines or steam piping to equipment and test unit to evaluate its mechanical operation.
• Repair and lubricate machines and equipment.
• Assemble and install equipment, using hand tools and power tools.
• Position steel beams to support bedplates of machines and equipment, using blueprints and schematic drawings, to determine work procedures.
• Signal crane operator to lower basic assembly units to bedplate and align unit to centerline.
• Insert shims, adjust tension on nuts and bolts, or position parts, using hand tools and measuring instruments, to set specified clearances between moving and stationary parts.
• Move machinery and equipment, using hoists, dollies, rollers, and trucks.
• Attach moving parts and subassemblies to basic assembly unit, using hand tools and power tools.
• Assemble machines, and bolt, weld, rivet, or otherwise fasten them to foundation or other structures, using hand tools and power tools.
• Lay out mounting holes, using measuring instruments, and drill holes with power drill.
• Bolt parts, such as side and deck plates, jaw plates, and journals, to basic assembly unit.
• Level bedplate and establish centerline, using straightedge, levels, and transit.
• Dismantle machines, using hammers, wrenches, crowbars, and other hand tools.
• Shrink-fit bushings, sleeves, rings, liners, gears, and wheels to specified items, using portable gas heating equipment.
• Dismantle machinery and equipment for shipment to installation site, usually performing installation and maintenance work as part of team.
• Construct foundation for machines, using hand tools and building materials such as wood, cement, and steel.
• Install robot and modify its program, using teach pendant.
• Operate engine lathe to grind, file, and turn machine parts to dimensional specifications.
• Have the ability to work at heights.
• Have the ability to work in confined spaces.

Education and/or Experience: High school diploma or GED preferred. 4 years relevant work experience preferred. Proven skills, work history and/or applicable education will be considered in lieu of work experience.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Communicates effectively, works independently or in a group.
• Ability to do basic math, i.e. add, subtract, divide and multiply.
• Ability to read, write, speak, and comprehend English

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (mechanical aptitude required, continuing on the job training will be provided for a candidate with the desire to learn this trade):

• Reads and understands blueprints and assembly drawings.
• Use hand tools (i.e., files and types of files, hacksaws, wrenches, porta-powers, taps and dies).
• Understand and demonstrate the use of all standard shop measuring tools:
• Micrometers inside, outside, and depth.
• Vernier scales and/or dial calipers.
• Rulers and tape measures.
• Protractors, Vernier, linear.
• Firm joint and spring joint calipers inside and outside.
• Height gauges.
• pi tapes.

Show Proficiency in working with some of the following items:

• Power boilers
• Flame monitoring equipment
• Feed water systems
• Meters
• Water softeners
• Regulators
• Heat exchangers
• Pumps
• Deaerators
• Valves
• Strainers
• Natural Gas, and light to heavy fuel systems
• Steam and condensate systems
• Air compressors
• Cooling Systems
• Chillers - Dryers
• Cooling Towers
• Control Air Systems

Physical Demands:

• Sitting: Occasionally may sit 2 to 8 hours per day on bench, stool, or other surface.
• Standing: Continually stands up to thirty minutes uninterrupted, up to 5 1/2 hours per day while disassembling, repairing and reassembling machinery or machine parts. Generally, stands on level concrete or other surface.
• Walking: Frequently walks less than 100 feet interrupted, up to fifty times per day while moving around shop area. Rarely may walk 1/2 mile to work site. Walks on asphalt, concrete or steel surface. May walk on ramps or other graded surfaces.
• Crouching: Occasionally- crouches less than 5 minutes uninterrupted, up to 20 times per day.
• Kneeling/Crawling: Rarely kneels less than 5 minutes at a time, less than 30 minutes total per day. May kneel on one or both knees depending upon the setting. Rarely- Kneels on level concrete surface. Crawling: Not Required.
• Stooping: Rarely- stoops over machinery to observe machine or machine parts or to work on same. May stoop up to 15 minutes at a time, up to 2 1/2 hours per day total.
• Twisting: Knees: Rarely while accessing or viewing machine or machine parts. May alternate with kneeling.
• Waist: Occasionally twists at waist while retrieving tools or parts from storage areas or to reach for controls. May twist hundreds of times throughout the day.
• Neck: Occasionally twists in all direction while observing work in process. May hold position up to 30 minutes at a time.
• Climbing: Occasionally climbs up steps on cranes, dry-docks, buildings, or on tables to access machines to set up or make adjustments. Climbs up to 20 times per day on some days.
• Balancing: Occasionally while climbing to and from work sites or climbing on machines.
• Leg/Foot Use (To repetitively operate machine controls): Occasionally operates pipe and bolt threader which requires a foot pedal control.
• Reaching Overhead: Occasionally reaches for overhead machine controls or hoists. Reaches overhead less than 3 minutes at a time.
• Extension: Frequently extends arms while disassembling, repairing, and reassembling machines or machine parts.
• Handling/Grasping: Frequently uses tools, machine parts, machine controls while in the process of repairing, disassembling, and reassembling machine or machine part. May need to use one or both hands.
• Fingering/Feeling: Frequently uses nuts, bolts, fine measuring equipment, other small pieces of equipment in the process of performing assembly/reassembly and repairs. Works to.001" precision.
• Pushing/Pulling: (Average) applies 25 pounds of