Inside Machinist

Job Description

Position Summary

The Inside Machinist is responsible for the repairing and maintaining shipboard mechanical equipment. Fixing, servicing, aligning, setting up, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical principles. Inspects, maintains, and repairs marine vessels of all sizes. Works on vessels’ hulls, engines, transmissions, navigational equipment, and sometimes electrical propulsion. Must possess knowledge of general mechanics of marine vessels in additional to knowledge of general machines to repair marine vessels and/or marine components, parts, etc. Must be good with a wide spectrum of tools.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Repair, modify, or overhaul various types of equipment or systems
• Set up and operate portable machining tools or equipment
• Manufacture, repair, and rebuild parts/items of equipment from raw stock of different metals and metal alloys through the use of conventional or computer numerical control (CNC) machine tools and precision handwork
• Tests and inspects installed machinery and equipment
• Perform pump alignment to motor
• Dismantles, repairs, or replaces defective parts and reassemble machinery using tools such as: chain hoists, steel rollers, etc.
• Install ship machinery such as propelling machinery and steering gear working from blueprints and using hand tools, calipers, and micrometers
• Fabricates replacement parts, using machine shop tools such as lathe, boring mill, planer, shaper and milling machine
• Disassembles machinery and equipment to remove parts and make repairs
• Examines parts for defects, such as breakage or excessive wear
• Repairs, replaces, adjusts, and aligns components of machinery and equipment
• Test-runs repaired machinery and equipment to verify adequacy of repairs
• Ability work various shifts
  
  

Education, Training & Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of related experience required
• High School/GED with Apprenticeship Diploma and additional vocational courses or technical school graduate
• Experience with marine mechanical systems in a repair department/shipyard required
  
  

Skills/Technical Knowledge

• Requires excellent communication skills and attention to detail
• Requires concentration, and attention to detail
• Must be able to comprehend and follow occupational safety and health regulations, other state and federal regulations governing the ship repair and Company practices and procedures
• Ability to work under pressure
  
  

Physical Demands

• The physical demands for this position require continual standing, walking and using fine motor skills for the operation of tools and machinery.
• Ability to lift, carry 50lbs. May require some lifting or assistance with heavy equipment.
• Occasionally requires twisting, turning, bending, climbing, and walking over uneven surfaces.
• Ability to sit, stand, bend, reach, kneel, twist, pull, push, grip, and climb
  
  

Qualifications/Requirements

• Must show proof of your legal right to work in the United States
• This position requires US Citizenship due to security clearance required for base access
• Must be able to successfully obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)
• Must be able to successfully obtain a Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS) Credential to gain access to federally controlled work sites
• All candidates must submit to and pass a post-offer drug screening and a background check before employment begins. Failure to complete any of these steps will result in disqualification
• Valid State of Hawaii drivers’ license in good standing, class 3 or higher
• Candidates must have access to reliable transportation to get to work and other job sites on time for the start of shift
  
  

Pacific Shipyards International, LLC Expectations of Employee

• Is committed to the company values and adheres to all Pacific Shipyards’ policies and procedures
• Perform duties of his/her job and as assigned by Management
• Maintain a positive and respectful attitude and conduct her/himself with integrity and in a polite, professional manner treating customers and co-workers courteously and respectfully
• Communicates regularly with Officers, Managers, & Supervisors about the different divisions and department’s issues
• Consistently be on time for work, meetings and appointments and deliver work projects by assigned due dates
• Maintain assigned work areas in a clean and orderly fashion
• Maintain and ensure the safety of all assigned equipment
• Perform all duties in conformance to appropriate safety and security standards
• Meet productivity goals and quality standards as set by management
• Ability to read and understand drawings and specifications
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and balance priorities
  
  

Our Values

Legacy: Family-owned throughout its history, P.S.I. strives to fulfill the goals that motivated our founder in 1944: we dedicate ourselves wholly to caring for our customers so that they can continue to serve our community.

Commitment: P.S.I. approaches every project with teamwork, determination, and focus. Commitment makes it possible for the most challenging of projects to be completed safely and on-time to consistently exceed our customer’s expectations.

Integrity: Transparency, humility, and accountability are critical to every facet of our business. Leading with integrity allows P.S.I. to continue to operate as the highest-performing commercial shipyard in the state.

Loyalty: At P.S.I., every employee relies on teammates without question and supports each other without pretense. Built on the foundations of trust, loyalty to one another is paramount.

Additional Information

This position is represented by The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers, and Helpers, AFL-CIO and its Local Lodge 627. Candidates must become a member of the union as a condition of employment.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee filling this position. Employee will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by management. Management has the right to add to, revise, or delete information in this job description.

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" employment relationship.

Company Description

PSI is the largest privately owned shipyard in Hawaii, with two of the largest dry docks in the state. We have been in business since 1944 and have a large labor force of skilled craftsman with a full support staff of professionals who comprise of engineering, project management, QA, EHS, accounting, contracts, and human resources. PSI offers over 80 years of experience performing maintenance, overhaul, and repairs of all types of marine vessels, assets, and facilities.

Please visit our Careers page for our job opportunities: https://www.pacificshipyards.com/careers/

PSI is the largest privately owned shipyard in Hawaii, with two of the largest dry docks in the state. We have been in business since 1944 and have a large labor force of skilled craftsman with a full support staff of professionals who comprise of engineering, project management, QA, EHS, accounting, contracts, and human resources. PSI offers over 80 years of experience performing maintenance, overhaul, and repairs of all types of marine vessels, assets, and facilities. Please visit our Careers page for our job opportunities: https://www.pacificshipyards.com/careers/