Assistant Captain

Assistant Captain

The Assistant Captain is responsible for operating ships and water vessels in oceans, bays, lakes, rivers or coastal waters. The incumbent conducts thorough inspections of vessels and peripheral equipment before each voyage to ensure efficient and safe operations, adhering to all regulations and company policies. The Assistant Captain utilizes navigational equipment, weather forecasts and tide / current predictions to ensure the overall safety of vessel and crew. The Assistant Captain works with the supervisor to adjust float and work plan according to developing environmental conditions. The incumbent directs crew activities while deployed.

Principle responsibilities include deploying, towing, and anchoring containment boom and other spill response equipment, ensuring job-related equipment is always in good working order, documenting and keeping current all required vessel logs and inspections, providing clear direction to deckhands and passengers to ensure safety during potential navigational or event hazards, providing continuous training in safety, seamanship skills and basic navigation techniques, conducting onboard safety drills, understanding and completing paperwork to follow procedures and regulations, and performing other general work, confined space entry, spill response and industrial maintenance as directed by supervisor.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities include prior knowledge and experience in oil response, ability to travel and deploy to other vessels both domestically and internationally, ability to read, analyze, and interpret complex documentation, technical procedures, and regulations, skill communicating the implications and highlights of highly specialized, technical, and analytical work and key insights, ability to effectively manage and communicate work delivery expectations with customers, ability to work with mathematical concepts such as proportions, basic algebra, and geometry to apply to a variety of practical, variable and non-standard situations, and ability to use maritime survival craft equipment.

Preferred certifications include USCG Merchant Mariner Credential as Master of 1600 Gross Registered Tons (GRT) for Oceans with Radar license, any waters or near coastal lifeboatmen, endorsement, STCW and GMDSS certificates Unlimited radar observer, able bodied seaman, cold-water survival certificate (or ability to obtain within 12 months, if required), tankerman PIC endorsement, valid driver's license, API rigger and hydraulic crane operator certificates (or ability to obtain), possess or obtain confined space entry, attendant and rescue certification (may be required at some locations), US Passport, or ability to obtain (may be required at some locations).

Minimum qualifications include 4 - 7 years of relevant work experience.