Jr. Craft Master

Job Description

• Perform destructive weather operations with minimum notice to ensure that the craft and boats are protected during gales, storms, hurricanes, and destructive weather.
• Support mooring of craft and boats in the boathouse facility, boat storage, or mooring in bay.
• Perform preventative maintenance on PSC aluminum hull, mechanical, electrical, and electronic systems.
• Plan, conduct, and document all preventative PSC equipment maintenance in accordance with manufacturers’ specifications, both at sea and in port.
• Develop a comprehensive preventative maintenance schedule and provide annual maintenance action recommendations for repair or upgrade of engines and corrosion control on the boats hull, structures, and electrical components.
• Conduct corrective maintenance or repairs on failing or failed PSC hulls (aluminum, fiberglass, and inflatable), mechanical, electrical, or electronic systems or components. Responsibilities include removal from craft, dry docking, disassembly of equipment, inspection, replacement or refurbishment of parts, reassembly, testing to ensure proper operation, and re‑installation onboard the craft.
• Conduct side scan sonar operations, oceanographic equipment deployment and recovery, ROV operations, on‑station monitoring, guard duty, deployment and recovery of live or inert mines, test instrumentation and objects as specified. Follow computer generated track lines while towing sonar or other towed systems and accurately hold station while subsea equipment is deployed or recovered using the vessel’s crane from the stern.
• Provide surface craft support for divers conducting boat repairs and project support—line‑tending divers in the water from the surface, maintaining surface‑supplied air equipment and assisting divers into and out of the water.
• Ensure boat safety, certification and inspection in the areas of hull, safety‑of‑life‑at‑sea equipment (SOLAS), Automated External Defibrillator (AED), Emergency Position‑Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) and various firefighting equipment on board the vessel.

• Current United States Coast Guard 100‑Ton Master license.
• Trained and maintain currency in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), Automated External Defibrillator (AED) operation, and First Aid.

Secret (required)

$25.60

Entry level

Full‑time

Other

Government Relations Services

Panama City, FL