Marine Mechanic

at North Carolina Department of Transportation (view profile)
Location Cedar Island, 3619 Cedar Island Rd
Date Posted December 16, 2024
Category Transportation
Job Type Full-time
State North Carolina (NC)

Description

How to Apply
You MUST apply at https://tinyurl.com/mrs8ha2w by Dec 31.
 
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Salary: $36,682 - $64,194
 
The Challenge
We are looking for an experienced Marine Mechanic to join our Cedar Island team to maintain and repair diesel engines and other marine equipment.
 
In this role, you will:
    • Perform work ranging from general, routine assignments to moderately complexity requiring marine mechanical knowledge acquired through on-the-job training dealing with ferry vessels.
    • Have overnight travel to work in Ocracoke on a rotation basis.
    • Repair and overhaul diesel engines involving the disassembly, inspection and reassembly of valves, pistons, rings, connecting rods, crankshaft, camshaft, bearings, timing gears and chains, valve mechanisms, injectors, and pumps.
    • Repair and adjust reduction gears, clutches, and couplings.
    • Replace propeller shafts and bearings and align them to the engines.
    • Repair and overhaul fire pumps, bilge pumps, and hydraulic pumps.
    • Use bench grinders, belt sanders, bandsaws, and pneumatic tools.
    • Operate horizontal milling machines, lathes, radial arm drill presses, and hydraulic presses.
    • Read, understand, and use blueprints.
    • Use common cutting tools in machining, such as HSS, brazed carbides, and carbide inserts.
    • Read conversion charts of fraction to decimal and standard to metric units.
    • Use measuring instruments, such as dial calipers, micrometers, depth gauges, radius gauges, and telescoping gauges.
 
What You Bring
    • Working knowledge of the operating principles of diesel and gasoline engines.
    • Knowledge of the operating principles of reduction gears and hydraulic systems, air and electric control systems, and vacuum and pressure pumps.
    • Demonstrated ability to determine the causes of and procedures to follow in repairing malfunctioning equipment.
 
Education & Experience
    • High school/GED diploma, and
    • 3+ years experience in the repair of diesel and gasoline engines, transmissions, hydraulic, air and electric systems, and components, preferably in the ship repair or shipbuilding industry; or
    • An equivalent combination of education and experience.
  
Questions?
Call me: René Basnight at 252-423-5125.
 
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