Jeffersonville IN Harbor Deckhand
On-siteJeffersonville, Indiana, United States
Job Summary
Conduct daily safety inspections of the vessel's structure, engine room, and wheelhouse while performing look-out duties during transits. Make and break tows for customer vessels and pick up and deliver barges to docks. Operate winches, handle lines, and perform daily maintenance on propulsion and electrical systems. Assist new hires and trainees on tows, including donning personal protective equipment and participating in emergency drills. Maintain housekeeping standards and order supplies regularly. This role requires the ability to lift up to 70 lbs, climb stairs, and respond to alarms in high-noise environments. Applicants must pass a TSA background check and a DOT 5-panel drug test. Reliable transportation is required.
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.
- Applicants must meet the Physical Requirements and be able to perform the Emergency Duties itemized above.
- Applicants must have reliable transportation to and from work.
- Applicant must be able to pass a TSA background check.
- Applicant must be able to pass a pre-employment DOT 5-panel Urine Drug Test.
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