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U.S. Pacific Fleet
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RIGGING WORKER
U.S. Pacific Fleet
Department of the Navy
Location
Bremerton, Washington
Salary
$33.36 - $38.92
per hour
Type
Full-Time
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Job Description
Summary
This job involves working as a diver for the U.S. Navy in Washington state, where you'll perform underwater maintenance, repairs, and inspections on ships and submarines.
You'll handle tasks like cleaning parts, moving heavy equipment underwater, and retrieving lost items from the water.
It's a good fit for experienced divers who are comfortable with physical work, safety protocols, and operating boats and tools in challenging underwater environments.
Key Requirements
- Ability to perform rigging and diving tasks independently with minimal supervision (screen-out element)
- Experience in underwater ship maintenance, including cleaning, inspecting, and repairing components like propellers and anchors
- Proficiency with diving equipment such as open-circuit scuba, surface-supplied systems, and decompression tables
- Skills in salvage operations using lift bags, cranes, davits, and rigging gear for handling heavy items underwater
- Knowledge of installing and removing cofferdams, blanks, and other temporary structures
- Ability to operate dive boats, hydraulic systems, and diver support equipment
- Familiarity with Navy preventive maintenance programs (e.g., 3M program)
Full Job Description
You will serve as a RIGGING WORKER (DIVER) in the Diving Operations Division (Code 760), Lifting & Handling Department of PSNS and IMF.
Although a specific length of time and experience is not required for most trade and labor occupations, you must show through experience and training that you possess the quality level of knowledge and skill necessary to perform the duties of the position at the level for which you are applying.
Qualification requirements emphasis is on quality of experience, not necessarily the length of time.
Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the job elements and screen out listed below.
This job has a screen-out element which will be used to determine minimum eligibility for this job.
Applicants who do not receive a minimum of two points on the screen-out element(s) will be found ineligible.
The Screen-out Element for this position is: ABILITY TO DO THE WORK OF THE POSITION WITHOUT MORE THAN NORMAL SUPERVISION Applicants must meet the requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Job Qualification Handbook for Trades and Labor Occupations.
Additional qualification information can be found at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/federal-wage-system-qualifications/#url=List-of-Approved-Job-Elements Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).
Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. Major Duties:
- You will be performing underwater ships husbandry on waterborne Navy vessels.
- You will use decompression tables, open-circuit scuba and surface supplied dive equipment.
- You will install and remove cofferdams, blanks, anchors, anchor chain, cleaning and inspecting propellers, moving large heavy items underwater using cranes and rigging gear.
- You will be repairing and replacing various ships components.
- You will perform salvage diving to retrieve items from the water using various methods like lift bags, cranes, davits, and etc.
- You will perform preventive maintenance in accordance with Navy 3M program.
- You will operate dive boats, hydraulic systems and all diver support equipment.
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