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I need a manual machinist for an outage!

i_r_machinist

Titanium
Joined
Apr 12, 2007
Location
Dublin Texas
Nuclear power plant outage. Manual machines. If you can pass a drug test and not a felon, send me a pm. 3-4 weeks of work in central Texas. Will get you qualified to work all over the country.
have fun
i_r_machinist
 
Im guessing a shortage because the pay sucks?

Probably not, this is a power plant outage. As in, the plant is pulled offline for major maintenance and repair. It's a temp job but one would likely be working 12+ hours a day 7 days a week or at least on 24 hr call for the duration of the outage. Pay is probably top pay for the area as it is temporary and very demanding.

This is just an educated guess on my part, we do a lot of outages in my shop, just control valve focused.
 
Definitely a younger fit mans work, ......ideal if you want to gain experience while being well paid it, .a career stepping stone???
 
Nuclear power plant outage. Manual machines. If you can pass a drug test and not a felon, send me a pm. 3-4 weeks of work in central Texas. Will get you qualified to work all over the country.
have fun
i_r_machinist

Hey IR actually if you need any help we do recutting of valves, building spool pieces and bonnets built, hard facing, control valve parts (everything from the internals to gaskets and packing) give us a shout. Control Valve Specialists, Inc.
We are on most of the majors ASL - everyone from exxon to shell, dow to monsanto and have been in this line of work as a company since 1973.
 
Average age for my guys is between 60-80, mostly retired guys. Best contractor I had, both manual and cnc, just busted out on urine test. I've got one guy that will be 80 in three months. 6 days a week, 12 hr shifts. Per dium. Best plant in the nation to get into the field. Summers off, collecting unemployment. $60-$100k plus a year.
Travel the nation with Crane Nuclear.
have fun
i_r
 
Hey IR actually if you need any help we do recutting of valves, building spool pieces and bonnets built, hard facing, control valve parts (everything from the internals to gaskets and packing) give us a shout. Control Valve Specialists, Inc.
We are on most of the majors ASL - everyone from exxon to shell, dow to monsanto and have been in this line of work as a company since 1973.

We have a contract with Continental, out of ?Georgia? for any scheduled big projects. I just need a shop guy for walk in stuff. Valve mokey broke a bolt and such.
i_r
 
Probably not, this is a power plant outage. As in, the plant is pulled offline for major maintenance and repair. It's a temp job but one would likely be working 12+ hours a day 7 days a week or at least on 24 hr call for the duration of the outage. Pay is probably top pay for the area as it is temporary and very demanding.

This is just an educated guess on my part, we do a lot of outages in my shop, just control valve focused.


Also likely a per diem for food and lodging.


I_R: What level of work are we talking? Not that I think I'm good enough... Just curious how NOT good enough I am. I could take 4 weeks of PTO at the day job, go work 4 weeks at probably triple my normal wage, and do pretty well for myself.


Also, I completely mis read the title of this post (pre-coffee)... I thought it said "I need a manual for machinist outrage" and figured somebody had blown something up at work :D
 
We have a contract with Continental, out of ?Georgia? for any scheduled big projects. I just need a shop guy for walk in stuff. Valve mokey broke a bolt and such.
i_r

Understand completely, just keep us in the back of your head. We specialize in obsolete parts and our inventory is very old and deep. So when the valve monkey bends a 40 year old, obsolete, valve stem we got you covered.
 
Also likely a per diem for food and lodging.


I_R: What level of work are we talking? Not that I think I'm good enough... Just curious how NOT good enough I am. I could take 4 weeks of PTO at the day job, go work 4 weeks at probably triple my normal wage, and do pretty well for myself.


Also, I completely mis read the title of this post (pre-coffee)... I thought it said "I need a manual for machinist outrage" and figured somebody had blown something up at work :D


You will NOT be making parts for the Pan Dynamic Turbo Encumbulator or the Flux Capacitor! All that shit is highly classified. The last guy we called in to work on that got garrotted by security in the parking lot when he left. I'm talking about face serration, polishing seating surfaces on valves, drilling out broken bolts, making tooling.....
Who knows what will walk in.
We lost one guy because he took a field machining job in France, another took a job in Brazil. A lot of jos out there for traveling machinist.
i_r_
 
Hey IR actually if you need any help we do recutting of valves, building spool pieces and bonnets built, hard facing, control valve parts (everything from the internals to gaskets and packing) give us a shout. Control Valve Specialists, Inc.
We are on most of the majors ASL - everyone from exxon to shell, dow to monsanto and have been in this line of work as a company since 1973.

Did you get a PM from me?
i_r_
 
How about member "PVAT" ?
He is looking for a job.

EDIT:Snow's coming in about (6) weeks around here....would make a nice exit to summer (like) weather.
 
Did you get a PM from me?
i_r_

I did and I tried to reply but it looks like your inbox is full so I will just post my reply here as I don't feel like there is anything private about it.

"I don't have any one I could sub out in the machine shop it's only me and 3 other guys. We mostly work to maintain the inventory or handling onesie twosie hot jobs. A big part of the business is in soft goods like packing, gaskets, and diaphragms. We also reman salvaged valve bodies and actuators. So the machine shop side of the business is kept pretty small.
I'll make a some calls but don't hold your breath. The ones I'd vouch for all have jobs and are well taken care of. The same is true here as everywhere else, the half decent ones that can pass a piss test and show up on the regular always have jobs. I am sure I can send a few your way but it will probably be pot luck.

I'm only 38 and I can see we are headed for serious trouble in this country, when my dad's generation is gone there is going to be very few of us left to do any real work."
 
Definitely a younger fit mans work, ......ideal if you want to gain experience while being well paid it, .a career stepping stone???

“ a career stepping stone???[/QUOTE]”

Everything and job is sold as a invaluable stepping stone over here it attempts to pay you less for the experience and value on a resume. This one does seem to be on the level as I am very familiar with repairs in a shutdown. As someone mentioned it will be long hours and hard work. Often we would go 72 hours straight always at the shop sleeping where and when we could staying close at hand. Injuries were more common too-dangerous more so than a standard work day/s.

Thing is it is often very demanding work physically and most often is a lot of manual work watching fit and function issues on the fly.

Truth is the majority of machinists who are experienced with manual machines and in these environments are not that common and they are retired or close to it.

I have no knowledge of any outfit willing to call them out of retirement to do these things. Plus they do not even post adds for them to get experience. Guess they don’t grandpa to drop dead in the shop. Lol
 








 
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