About This Role
Being a Deckhand on a harbor tug means assisting the tug Master and crew to ensure the company's tug operates on time, efficiently, and in an orderly manner. This role suits someone dedicated to safety, environmental health, security, and maintenance standards.
Responsibilities
- Maneuver the towing vessel in a safe, disciplined, prudent, and orderly manner under the direct supervision of a qualified operator
- Maintain unity, good order, and discipline among the crew
- Familiarize with the responsibilities, authority, and duties of the permanent deckhand and Mate (Pilot)
- Rapidly acquire expertise in company policies and procedures
- Ensure that company policies and procedures are followed
- Actively participate in drills, training, company meetings and on-board safety evolutions, and enhance the safety and security posture of the vessel
- Assist in vessel orientation for new crewmembers
- Report deficiencies in the vessel or crew to the master
- Maintain a professional attitude during operations and whenever dealing with customers, partners or company personnel
- Perform other appropriate tasks and duties as may be assigned from time to time by company officials or the master
Requirements
- Hold appropriate and unexpired Merchant Mariner Credential, Medical Credential, and Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) card
- Effectively communicate both orally and in writing
- Be effective in operating equipment associated with navigation and communications, such as VHF radios, radar units, AIS receivers, and personal computers
- Safe, proper and effective operation of all tools and equipment
- Appropriate vessel handling, navigation, watchstanding, and seamanship experience
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Good spatial orientation and assertiveness
- Effective social adaptability, interpersonal skills, and resilience
- Minimum credential of OS/Wiper
- High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate)
- TWIC card and driver’s license required, plus reliable transportation in the states of Louisiana and Texas
- Reside in the vicinity of either Lake Charles, LA or Point Comfort, TX, or be willing and able to relocate as necessary at own expense
- Exert up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, up to 50 pounds of force frequently and up to 20 pounds of force constantly
- Requires hearing, talking, grasping quickly, climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, crawling and swimming
- Ability to see details at a distance and depth perception to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away or to judge the distance between self and an object
