Experienced Deckhand
On-siteHenderson, Kentucky, United States
Job Summary
Conduct daily safety inspections of the vessel's critical systems, propulsion, steering, and electrical components while maintaining rigorous housekeeping standards. Execute make-and-break tows for customer vessels and barges, operate winches and ratchets, and manage all line handling tasks including splicing and throwing. Perform continuous look-out duties during high-risk maneuvers and assist new hires and Job Corps trainees in emergency drills, PPE usage, and firefighting equipment retrieval. Maintain vessel logs, respond to radio communications in noisy environments, and execute emergency duties such as carrying firefighting equipment up stairs and extracting victims from water or distressed vessels.
Required Qualifications
- Speak, read, and write English well enough to maintain vessel logs, read training materials, and follow written instructions.
- Climb at least 3 sets of stairs or ladders in short succession (from wheelhouse to engine room).
- Hear and respond to radio communications with significant background noise.
- Lift, pull, push, and carry ship's stores, vessel's rigging and other equipment up to 70lbs over distances of up to 1000'.
- Perform general vessel maintenance in tight quarters, including stooping, crouching, and crawling while using hand tools and power tools.
- Routinely walk and maintain balance across uneven, slippery, or unstable surfaces without assistance.
- Step over high doorsills, bullrails, and other structural obstacles.
- Walk up or down a ramp with an incline of up to 10° (17% grade), and length up to 100'.
- Participate in drills that may include carrying firefighting equipment up several flights of stairs, retrieving objects from the water, and carrying dewatering pumps in a short amount of time.
- Assist an injured person from a barge to the boat.
- Carry a 40lb extinguisher up one or more flights of stairs.
- Crawl on all fours across steel decking to escape a smoke-filled area.
- Extract an unconscious person from a vessel in distress.
- Hear, and rapidly respond to, alarms, bells, and whistles.
- In short succession, carry a 50lb de-watering pump, carry a 5g gas can, and carry accompanying hoses (20-30lbs each).
- Set up and start the de-watering pump and effectively operate a firehose under high pressure.
- Retrieve an unconscious adult from the water and onto the boat.
- Throw a 5lb ring buoy at least 25' and retrieve it with an adult attached.
- Unface and face-up the boat alone to retrieve unconscious or immobile victims from the water or from a barge.
- Have reliable transportation to and from work.
- Be able to pass a TSA background check.
- Be able to pass a pre-employment DOT 5-panel Urine Drug Test.
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