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QMED / Junior Engineer - UIC Bowhead Transport

Bowhead

Anchorage, Alaska • Today

Full-time

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Repair
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Forklift
Writing
Estimating
Presentations
Radio
Communication
English
Cabling
Collaboration
System Integration Testing
SAP BASIS
Corrective And Preventive Action

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Overview

UIC Bowhead Transport seeks a QMED/Junior Engineer to assist with engineering maintenance, deck operations, including line handling, standing watch and off-watch duties, performing deck and engine security rounds, and fulfilling any assigned security or emergency responsibilities for its Anchorage, Alaska location. Additional tasks may be assigned by the Vessel Master or Mate as needed.

Responsibilities

Essential functions will include:

Adherence to company policies, USCG, and environmental regulations.
Representing the Company to guests, customers, the public, government, and other external sources.
Good seaman skills, including: ability and knowledge to proper vessel line handling; tying, throwing, clean, coiled, and stowed properly.
Assist with machinery maintenance, fuel transfers, and in emergency situations as required by captain, mate, or pilot.
Operate, maintain, and repair ship equipment such as winches, cranes, vehicles, and loaders.
Scales, buffs, and paints decks and superstructure; sweeps and washes decks; splices wire and rope; breaks out, rigs, overhauls, and stows cargo-handling gear, stationary rigging, and running gear; secures cargo; and launches and recovers boats.
May rig and operate hydrographic and other specialty winches; handle and stow oceanographic explosives; and stage and stow beach support equipment.
In addition, when assigned to watch duty, performs a variety of duties, including looking for obstructions in path of vessel, steering vessel, serving on security patrol, and standing gangway watch.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum of one (1) to three (3) years of increasingly responsible experience in the maritime industry.
Heavy Equipment Operator experience is required (loader, forklift, deck crane, skid steer).
Valid Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC - minimum six (6) months prior to renewal).
Valid Driver's License with a minimum of six (6) months prior to renewal).
Ability to complete an annual Merchant Mariners physical exam and perform physically demanding shipboard duties.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain highly complex or technical topics to individuals with little or no background in the subject.
Writing skills require the ability to write text designed to communicate technical information.
Strong interpersonal/team skills and the proven ability to often deal with situations where immediate low-level satisfactory resolution of issues must be achieved.
Employee must be able to write in English, read in English, calculate, have estimation skills, possess good verbal presentation and be able to communicate using the radio, speaker, or electronic communication by using the English language.

Physical and Mental Demands:

Repetitive and prolonged postures involving standing, sitting, twisting, squatting, kneeling, stooping and reaching to full range from above the head to the deck.
Employee must have the ability to move extremities and spine through full physiological range of motion that will permit the employee to work in a variety of postures involving postures allowing reaching with hands from deck level to overhead level.
Flexing and twisting of the trunk and other awkward postures are required occasionally when assisting crew while tying up vessels, moving rope or cable and repairing equipment.
Employee must have good dexterity and frequently use one and two hands throughout the work period for grasping and fingering while using controls of the vessel, hand tools and performing other activities requiring good dexterity. Employee must always have good balance and coordination in order to safely walk over catwalks, enter/ exit hatches, and over uneven and/or slippery surfaces.
Must be able to climb ladders, stairwells, and push knees.
Employee must be able to step with a step length of 2-ft. in the horizontal direction and 2-ft. in the vertical direction.
Different docks have various combinations of barge drafts and river stages which make it necessary to step across, up, down, or over an obstacle in order to gain access to the dock from the barge or from the barge to the boat or from the boat to the dock.
Must also be able to safely walk and carry tools and line while crossing pipes, ledges, sills, catwalks and/or climbing ladders and push knees.
Employee must have sufficient cardiorespiratory fitness to occasionally perform medium-heavy physical labor involving the ability to sit and/or stand for 6 hour shifts, walk for prolonged periods, handle (lift, carry, push and pull) various materials and tools, climb ladders, stairwells, and push knees while working in inclement weather with temperatures that may vary from extreme cold to extreme heat.
Must be able to work in cold/hot weather while wearing required PPE (e.g., life preserver, respirators, goggles, etc.).
Must be able to lift at least 65 lbs. from floor to knuckles, and waste-level on a daily basis.
Must be able to lift at least 30 lbs. from floor to shoulder level on a daily basis. Must be able to lift at least 10 lbs. from floor to crown level on a daily basis.
Must be able to lift and carry at least 30 lbs. with two hands at waist level for a minimum distance of 30 feet on a level surface.

Working Conditions:

Cramped and/or confined spaces.
May work in fog, dark, and other visibility limiting conditions.May be exposed to fuels, solvents, cleaners, dust, fumes, smoke, and gases.
Will work on vessels in adverse weather conditions.
Constant and loud engine, blowers, and exhaust noise.
Irregular working hours.
Vibrations from vessel engines.
Arctic marine environment including low temperatures, high wind, icing, plenty of moisture and wave action.
Frequent hazards include hypothermia, pinch points, sprains, strains, slips, falls, concussive impacts, and lifting injuries.
Hazard awareness and corrective action is a constant function of the job due to the extreme work environment.

Seasonal Schedule: 6-8 months with peak season is 10-August to 1-October annually with limited time off during this window.

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Dice Id: 80183323
Position Id: c53fa2e37ba9c4c6c048dd7b23efc806
Posted 18 days ago

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Anchorage, Alaska

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Today

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Skills

Repair
PATROL
Forklift
Writing
Estimating
Presentations
Radio
Communication
English
Cabling
Collaboration
System Integration Testing
SAP BASIS
Corrective And Preventive Action

Summary

Adherence to company policies, USCG, and environmental regulations.
Representing the Company to guests, customers, the public, government, and other external sources.
Good seaman skills, including: ability and knowledge to proper vessel line handling; tying, throwing, clean, coiled, and stowed properly.
Assist with machinery maintenance, fuel transfers, and in emergency situations as required by captain, mate, or pilot.
Operate, maintain, and repair ship equipment such as winches, cranes, vehicles, and loaders.
Scales, buffs, and paints decks and superstructure; sweeps and washes decks; splices wire and rope; breaks out, rigs, overhauls, and stows cargo-handling gear, stationary rigging, and running gear; secures cargo; and launches and recovers boats.
May rig and operate hydrographic and other specialty winches; handle and stow oceanographic explosives; and stage and stow beach support equipment.
In addition, when assigned to watch duty, performs a variety of duties, including looking for obstructions in path of vessel, steering vessel, serving on security patrol, and standing gangway watch.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum of one (1) to three (3) years of increasingly responsible experience in the maritime industry.
Heavy Equipment Operator experience is required (loader, forklift, deck crane, skid steer).
Valid Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC - minimum six (6) months prior to renewal).
Valid Driver's License with a minimum of six (6) months prior to renewal).
Ability to complete an annual Merchant Mariners physical exam and perform physically demanding shipboard duties.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain highly complex or technical topics to individuals with little or no background in the subject.
Writing skills require the ability to write text designed to communicate technical information.
Strong interpersonal/team skills and the proven ability to often deal with situations where immediate low-level satisfactory resolution of issues must be achieved.
Employee must be able to write in English, read in English, calculate, have estimation skills, possess good verbal presentation and be able to communicate using the radio, speaker, or electronic communication by using the English language.

Physical and Mental Demands:

Repetitive and prolonged postures involving standing, sitting, twisting, squatting, kneeling, stooping and reaching to full range from above the head to the deck.
Employee must have the ability to move extremities and spine through full physiological range of motion that will permit the employee to work in a variety of postures involving postures allowing reaching with hands from deck level to overhead level.
Flexing and twisting of the trunk and other awkward postures are required occasionally when assisting crew while tying up vessels, moving rope or cable and repairing equipment.
Employee must have good dexterity and frequently use one and two hands throughout the work period for grasping and fingering while using controls of the vessel, hand tools and performing other activities requiring good dexterity. Employee must always have good balance and coordination in order to safely walk over catwalks, enter/ exit hatches, and over uneven and/or slippery surfaces.
Must be able to climb ladders, stairwells, and push knees.
Employee must be able to step with a step length of 2-ft. in the horizontal direction and 2-ft. in the vertical direction.
Different docks have various combinations of barge drafts and river stages which make it necessary to step across, up, down, or over an obstacle in order to gain access to the dock from the barge or from the barge to the boat or from the boat to the dock.
Must also be able to safely walk and carry tools and line while crossing pipes, ledges, sills, catwalks and/or climbing ladders and push knees.
Employee must have sufficient cardiorespiratory fitness to occasionally perform medium-heavy physical labor involving the ability to sit and/or stand for 6 hour shifts, walk for prolonged periods, handle (lift, carry, push and pull) various materials and tools, climb ladders, stairwells, and push knees while working in inclement weather with temperatures that may vary from extreme cold to extreme heat.
Must be able to work in cold/hot weather while wearing required PPE (e.g., life preserver, respirators, goggles, etc.).
Must be able to lift at least 65 lbs. from floor to knuckles, and waste-level on a daily basis.
Must be able to lift at least 30 lbs. from floor to shoulder level on a daily basis. Must be able to lift at least 10 lbs. from floor to crown level on a daily basis.
Must be able to lift and carry at least 30 lbs. with two hands at waist level for a minimum distance of 30 feet on a level surface.

Working Conditions:

Cramped and/or confined spaces.
May work in fog, dark, and other visibility limiting conditions.May be exposed to fuels, solvents, cleaners, dust, fumes, smoke, and gases.
Will work on vessels in adverse weather conditions.
Constant and loud engine, blowers, and exhaust noise.
Irregular working hours.
Vibrations from vessel engines.
Arctic marine environment including low temperatures, high wind, icing, plenty of moisture and wave action.
Frequent hazards include hypothermia, pinch points, sprains, strains, slips, falls, concussive impacts, and lifting injuries.
Hazard awareness and corrective action is a constant function of the job due to the extreme work environment.

Seasonal Schedule: 6-8 months with peak season is 10-August to 1-October annually with limited time off during this window.

Dice Id: 80183323
Position Id: c53fa2e37ba9c4c6c048dd7b23efc806
Posted 18 days ago

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