Hull Maintenance Technician (Ht)
Norfolk, Virginia Area
The hull maintenance technician rating is responsible for helping keep the Navy's ships in top condition, as well as metal worker duties on a variety of shipboard structures, maintaining shipboard plumbing, maintaining a ship's marine sanitation system, repair and maintain the small boats found aboard Navy ships. Navy hull tech’s fabricate shipboard structures using many different metals, including aluminum, stainless steel, steel, copper and brass; Welding, brazing, caulking and riveting metal surfaces on a ship. HT’s test and examine welds using a variety of diagnostic tools, including ultrasonic and radiological devices. Navy HTs also work on ships' ventilation ducting and they frequently install and repair insulation surrounding piping. Lastly HT’s help the Damage Controlman fight fires onboard ships. When TAD to the Medical department my responsibilities included maintaining treatment records and reports, caring for sick and injured, supervising air, water, food, and habitability standards, performing clinical laboratory tests and operating sophisticated laboratory equipment, taking and processing X-rays and operating X-ray equipment, assisting in prevention and treatment of disease and injuries, administering immunization programs, instructing sailors in first aid, self-aid, and personal hygiene procedures, transporting the sick and injured, conducting preliminary physical examinations, performing medical administrative, supply and accounting procedures, performing preventive maintenance and repairs on biomedical equipment.