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Required Skills: |
Apply safety requirements throughout the work sequence including the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) |
Complete: all work to specification basic user maintenance of marine internal combustion engine, propulsion plant and auxiliary systems to manufacturer specifications and survey requirements, so as to prevent pollution of the marine environment maintenance records |
Implement safe and environmentally responsible work practices |
Plan maintenance activities according to technical, legislative, safety and procedural specifications |
Read and interpret manufacturer specifications and safety data sheets (SDS)/material safety data sheets (MSDS) |
Select and use appropriate processes, tools and equipment |
Required Knowledge: |
Basic hydraulic systems and user maintenance requirements |
Basic vessel construction |
Bearing types, materials, installation and lubrication |
Common faults in: steering gear refrigeration systems |
Construction and maintenance of heat exchangers |
Correct pressure and flow conditions |
Corrosion prevention |
Coupling types, fitting, keys and keyways |
Cross connections between: sea water systems and bilge systems bilge/ballast/seawater systems and fire main |
Dangers associated with: back-flooding and methods to prevent back-flooding LPG and petrol vapours |
Dangers of refrigerant gas leaks in confined spaces |
Diesel engine construction fuel injection, timing and control equipment routine maintenance |
Engine: fault finding techniques performance and reasons for lack of performance protection arrangements |
Electro-hydraulic steering gear |
Emergency steering systems |
Faults that can occur with firefighting equipment and systems |
Fire main system and components including pumps, hoses and nozzles |
Fixed firefighting systems and associated remote shut-offs and closing of appliances |
Heat exchanger, keel cooler and raw water cooling systems |
Glands, packing and seals |
Maintenance of watertight openings and hull fittings |
Marine gearbox faults and emergency operation |
Method of propulsion reversal including controllable pitch propeller construction |
Oil: filter changing procedures quality monitoring |
Planned maintenance |
Propeller types, fitting, keys and keyways, securing nuts , locking |
Pump capabilities and requirements for priming |
Refrigeration systems and components |
Relevant regulations and codes of practice relating to the maintenance of engineering equipment and systems such as firefighting |
Routine maintenance: on steering systems of refrigeration systems |
Rudder and stock bearing supports |
Rudder construction and rudder types |
Seawater circulating systems |
Shutting down machinery |
Statutory and organisational requirements for documentation relating to the maintenance of engineering equipment and systems such as firefighting |
Storage of LPG cylinders |
Testing of LPG detectors |
Tiller arm attachment |
Types of: deck machinery pumps and safety devices |
Wet sump lubrication systems |