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Additional tasks may be assigned by the Vessel Master or Mate as needed.\nResponsibilities\nEssential functions will include:\nAdherence to company policies, USCG, and environmental regulations.\nRepresenting the Company to guests, customers, the public, government, and other external sources.\nGood seaman skills, including: ability and knowledge to proper vessel line handling; tying, throwing, clean, coiled, and stowed properly.\nAssist with machinery maintenance, fuel transfers, and in emergency situations as required by captain, mate, or pilot.\nOperate, maintain, and repair ship equipment such as winches, cranes, vehicles, and loaders.\nScales, buffs, and paints decks and superstructure; sweeps and washes decks; splices wire and rope; breaks out, rigs, overhauls, and stows cargo-handling gear, stationary rigging, and running gear; secures cargo; and launches and recovers boats.\nMay rig and operate hydrographic and other specialty winches; handle and stow oceanographic explosives; and stage and stow beach support equipment.\nIn addition, when assigned to watch duty, performs a variety of duties, including looking for obstructions in path of vessel, steering vessel, serving on security patrol, and standing gangway watch.\nQualifications\nMinimum Qualifications:\nMinimum of one (1) to three (3) years of increasingly responsible experience in the maritime industry.\nHeavy Equipment Operator experience is required (loader, forklift, deck crane, skid steer).\nMust be a U.S. Citizen and have a valid U.S. Passport with at least six (6) months prior to renewal.\nValid Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC -- minimum six (6) months prior to renewal).\nValid Driver's License with a minimum of six (6) months prior to renewal).\nAbility to complete an annual Merchant Mariners physical exam and perform physically demanding shipboard duties.\nStrong communication skills, with the ability to explain highly complex or technical topics to individuals with little or no background in the subject.\nWriting skills require the ability to write text designed to communicate technical information.\nStrong interpersonal/team skills and the proven ability to often deal with situations where immediate low-level satisfactory resolution of issues must be achieved.\nEmployee must be able to write in English, read in English, calculate, have estimation skills, possess good verbal presentation and be able to communicate using the radio, speaker, or electronic communication by using the English language.\nPhysical and Mental Demands:\nRepetitive and prolonged postures involving standing, sitting, twisting, squatting, kneeling, stooping and reaching to full range from above the head to the deck.\nEmployee must have the ability to move extremities and spine through full physiological range of motion that will permit the employee to work in a variety of postures involving postures allowing reaching with hands from deck level to overhead level.\nFlexing and twisting of the trunk and other awkward postures are required occasionally when assisting crew while tying up vessels, moving rope or cable and repairing equipment.\nEmployee must have good dexterity and frequently use one and two hands throughout the work period for grasping and fingering while using controls of the vessel, hand tools and performing other activities requiring good dexterity. Employee must always have good balance and coordination in order to safely walk over catwalks, enter/ exit hatches, and over uneven and/or slippery surfaces.\nMust be able to climb ladders, stairwells, and push knees.\nEmployee must be able to step with a step length of 2-ft. in the horizontal direction and 2-ft. in the vertical direction.\nDifferent docks have various combinations of barge drafts and river stages which make it necessary to step across, up, down, or over an obstacle in order to gain access to the dock from the barge or from the barge to the boat or from the boat to the dock.\nMust also be able to safely walk and carry tools and line while crossing pipes, ledges, sills, catwalks and/or climbing ladders and push knees.\nEmployee must have sufficient cardiorespiratory fitness to occasionally perform medium-heavy physical labor involving the ability to sit and/or stand for 6 hour shifts, walk for prolonged periods, handle (lift, carry, push and pull) various materials and tools, climb ladders, stairwells, and push knees while working in inclement weather with temperatures that may vary from extreme cold to extreme heat.\nMust be able to work in cold/hot weather while wearing required PPE (e.g., life preserver, respirators, goggles, etc.).\nMust be able to lift at least 65 lbs. from floor to knuckles, and waste-level on a daily basis.\nMust be able to lift at least 30 lbs. from floor to shoulder level on a daily basis. 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