Dredge Engineer
Curtin Maritime, Corp.
full-time
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Location: California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $450 - $875 per day
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Work directly with the Port Engineer and Vessel Captain, applying Innovation, Integrity, and Efficiency and maintaining the Curtin Standard onboard
- Perform engineering duties aboard marine vessels, including troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, and operation of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems
- Operate tow winches and deck machinery; clean and maintain engine room to company standards
- Maintain inventories, work plans, create requisitions, and manage vessel readiness
- Manage Deckhands and lead teams on vessel projects; partner with Port Engineer and Captain to plan work underway
- Utilize and maintain Vessel Management System (VMS); participate in audits and compliance with Sub-M, ABS, and USCG requirements
- Commission new vessels, plan critical spares, create standard operating procedures, and manage dry-dockings and repairs (senior levels)
- Travel extensively and work long hours, weekends, and offshore assignments as required
Requirements
- Dredge Experience Required
- Clamshell Dredge Experience Preferred
- Attention to detail / excellent organizational skills
- Ability to handle stressful situations with focus, including safe and effective decision-making under potentially dangerous conditions
- Continuously demonstrate a strong sense of responsibility and ownership by being proactive in all situations/tasks
- Understanding the importance of being a mentor, the ability to invest in the development and success of others
- Superior communication skills
- Strong logistical and mechanical reasoning skills
- Agility to traverse uneven ground and walk gangways at various heights
- Agility to bend, stoop, or squat frequently and climb high steps/ladders several times a day
- Ability to lift 40 pounds safely
- Physical dexterity and strength to catch and handle lines; makeup tows with wire rigging; operate deck machinery
- Ability to work below decks in an area that may experience periods of darkness; work in confined spaces
- Ability to think clearly during stressful situations or during an emergency
- Ability to perform emergency duties and use emergency equipment onboard the vessel
- Demonstrate good personal hygiene, always maintain cleanliness
- Must be able to swim
- TWIC Card
- MMC – OS/Wiper (Engineer I)
- CG Med Cert
- Passport
- MMC QMED/Oiler (preferred for Engineer I; required for Engineer II+)
- Able Seaman Endorsement (preferred)
- STCW Basic Training (preferred/required at higher levels)
- DDE 1000 (preferred for Engineer III)
- STCW - RFPEW (preferred for Engineer III+)
- DDE 4000 (required for Engineer IV)
- Any HP – 500 Ton (required for Engineer V)
- STCW - OICEW (preferred for Engineer V)
- Experience as Assistant or sole Engineer on tugs
- Basic knowledge and troubleshooting abilities on electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanical systems
- Tow winch operation
- Cleaning and maintaining an engine room to the Curtin Standard
- Proficiency with Vessel Management System (VMS)
- Understanding and compliance with Sub-M, ABS, and USCG requirements (Engineer II+)
- Experience participating in external and internal audits (Engineer III+)
- Leadership and management experience for senior engineer levels