About This Role
This role involves performing deckhand duties on a municipal ferry vessel and at a ferry terminal, ensuring compliance with agency standard operating procedures and safety regulations. It suits a candidate committed to safety and capable of performing heavy manual labor.
Responsibilities
- Perform general deckhand duties, including cleaning the vessel and terminal areas
- Perform lookout and emergency duties of the assigned duty station, such as launching and manning rescue boats and life rafts
- Operate firefighting equipment
- Assist in vessel to vessel transfers under the direction of an Officer
- Operate boarding doors, gates, aprons, and bridges
- Handle gangways and mooring lines
- Direct passenger and vehicle traffic, as assigned
- Patrol deck and assigned duty station to ensure a safe and clean condition
- Assist passengers, as needed
- Report any suspicious circumstance or object to an Officer or Ferry Terminal Supervisor
- Perform heavy manual labor, such as handling vessel and terminal supplies and trash, and loading and unloading freight
- Participate in safety meetings and fire and lifeboat drills
Requirements
- Within 6 months of appointment, possess a valid U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Mariner Credential (MMC) with Able Seaman (any category, or a superior endorsement) and Lifeboatman or Lifeboatman-limited endorsements
- A valid U.S. Coast Guard medical certificate without restriction for applicable service
- Within 30 days of appointment, possess a valid Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) issued by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
- All credentials and certificates must be maintained for the duration of employment
- Two years of full-time satisfactory paid experience as a deckhand on ocean, coastwise, or inland steam or motor vessels, or equivalent seagoing experience in a sea service of the Armed Forces of the United States; or
- Graduation from an accredited college or university with an Associate degree in marine technology, including or supplemented by at least one year of deck duty; or
- Graduation from one of the U.S. Coast Guard approved maritime or sea service academies listed below, including the curriculum, program, or qualification indicated:
- The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (deck curriculum); or
- The U.S. Coast Guard Academy or the U.S. Naval Academy with a qualification as an underway Officer in charge of a navigational watch; or
- The Deck Class of a Maritime Academy approved by and conducted under the rules prescribed by the Maritime Administrator (see 46 CFR 11.407), including the program in the Deck Class of the Great Lakes Maritime Academy
