Tug Mate -Linehaul

Job Description $1500.00 Sign-on Bonus Job Summary A Linehaul Tug Mate assists the captain in the safe and efficient operation of a tugboat engaged in linehaul towing, which involves transporting barges over long distances. This role includes assisting with navigation, overseeing deck operations, and ensuring adherence to safety protocols. It's a physically demanding job that requires teamwork, adaptability, and strong leadership skills. Essential Functions • Helping the Captain with navigation, including using navigation equipment and maintaining the vessel's course. • Making and breaking tow lines, handling rigging during tow building, locking, and docking activities • Overseeing and participating in deck operations, including line handling, mooring, and general maintenance of the deck equipment. • Ensuring the safety of the crew, vessel, and towing operations. This includes conducting safety drills, inspections, and maintaining logs and reports. • Performing scheduled preventative maintenance, such as cleaning, scraping, painting, and changing fluids and filters on the vessel. • Maintaining clear and effective communication with the Captain, crew, and shore personnel. • Build tows using cables and lines to assist others on the vessel in preparing barges for the loading, transporting, and discharging aggregate barges. • Assist coworkers with handling and assembling deck lines, rigging during tow building, and locking and docking activities. • Perform scheduled preventative maintenance, including cleaning, scraping, painting, and changing all oil and filters throughout the vessel. Critical Competencies • Health, Safety and Environmental Management - Implements and uphold policies and practices that ensure workplace safety, promote employee well-being, and minimize environmental impact. This includes regulatory compliance, risk assessment & mitigation, workplace safety culture, incident response & prevention, sustainability & environmental stewardship and training & engagement. • Decision Making - Makes informed, effective, and timely decisions by evaluating available information, considering potential outcomes, and choosing the best course of action; analyzes options, weighs risks and benefits, and uses sound judgment to reach decisions that align with organizational goals and values. • Employee Engagement - Ability to cultivate a positive work environment where employees feel valued, motivated, and actively contribute to the organization, essentially encompassing behaviors that foster a sense of purpose, autonomy, growth, impact, and connection within the workforce. • Communicates Effectively - Communicates in ways that provide clarity of message, projects a credible and confident image to a diverse set of internal and external stakeholders and audiences and maximizes impact. • Conflict Resolution - Ability to effectively address, manage, and resolve conflicts within a team or organization; identifies the source of the conflict, understands the perspectives of all parties involved, and facilitates a solution that is fair, constructive, and aligned with organizational goals; maintains a positive working environment, prevents disputes from escalating, and promotes collaboration among team members. Responsibilities Education • Must possess necessary maritime licenses and certifications, such as those required by the STCW (Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping) and GMDSS (Global Maritime Distress and Safety System). • A valid Merchant Mariner Credential is required. Experience • Typically requires several years of experience in maritime operations, with a significant portion spent as a mate or in a similar leadership role. • Must have previous experience of the successful completion of Vulcan’s training program. Training aboard the inner harbor tugs is preferred. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities • Strong understan…

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