Ship Crew Mate Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Watch Duty

• Performs bridge navigation and deck watch during specified periods; determines the ship's geographical position using all available means, including GPS, radar ranges, visual observations, and depth sounders.
• Makes necessary entries in navigation and radio logs.
• Handles the vessel, as directed by the Captain, in docking, anchoring, piloting, en route travel, close-quarters maneuvering, and open sea conditions.
• Navigates to avoid marine hazards such as reefs, outlying shoals, and shallow waters, using aids to navigation such as lights, lighthouses, and buoys.

Safety & Security

• Participates in onboard safety training, meetings, and drills as directed by the Captain, including fire, abandon ship, man overboard, flooding, and medical emergencies.
• Participates in shoreside training as required by the company.
• Relieves and/or performs gangway watch as directed by the duty schedule.
• Maintains familiarity with the ISM Code and its requirements.
• Maintains familiarity with all duties under the company's Safety Management System, including Emergency Response activities.

Small Boat Operations

• Drives inflatable boats as necessary.
• Assists with loading guests, staff, and crew in and out of inflatable boats.

Administrative

• Maintains navigation bridge supply inventories and requisitions.
• Performs chart and publication corrections, and maintains the vessel's chart inventory using U.S. and Canadian Coast Guard Notices to Mariners.
• Calculates and posts daily sunrise/sunset times and tide and current information.
• Creates the Voyage Plan waypoint spreadsheet for the Captain's review and approval, and enters voyage itinerary waypoints into GPS.
• Creates and maintains the New Hire Checklist, ensuring each Training Officer is aware of completion deadlines for employee training.
• Creates Training Completion Certificates for all shipboard training and sends them to the Seattle Office.
• Maintains electronic copies of all external and shipboard training certificates for each crew member onboard.

• Experience as Mate operating a passenger vessel, including navigation and bridge watch responsibilities, maintaining navigation/communications equipment, and performing chart corrections.
• Experience operating port-to-port between Southeast Alaska, the Columbia and Snake Rivers, the Gulf of California, Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama (including the Panama Canal).
• Excellent crisis management skills; ability to act quickly with confidence while exercising sound judgment.
• Good customer service skills: professional demeanor, ability to use necessary levels of tact and courtesy.
• Strong time management skills; able to handle multiple tasks, set priorities, and meet deadlines.
• Communication Skills: Must possess the ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations.
• Mathematical Skills: Able to perform voyage planning and navigational calculations.

• Minimum USCG Mate 500 GRT Near Coastal and OICNW greater than 500 GT STCW Endorsement required. 
• Current First Aid/CPR/AED certification required.  
• Valid TWIC card required. 
• Valid US Passport required. 
• Valid USCG Medical Card per STCW standards (2 years) 
• STCW Advanced Firefighting (AFF) Certification required. 
• STCW Basic Safety Training (BST) within last 5 years required. 
• STCW Crowd Management (CM) required.
• STCW Crisis Management and Human Behavior (CMHB) required. 
• STCW Proficiency in Survival Craft and Rescue Boats Other than Fast Rescue Boat (PSC) required. 
• GMDSS License required. 
• ECDIS required. 
• ARPA required.
• Radar Observer (RO) endorsement required. 
• Department of Transportation (DOT) Specimen Collector required. 
• ECDIS Type-Specific Training provided.