Marine Electrician – Sample Job Description
Summary:
The Marine Electrician troubleshoots, repairs, and performs installations of electrical equipment and systems on board vessels, shore-tie installations, and other shore-side facilities. This position is responsible for following established safety practices while performing assigned duties to protect self, co-workers, and the public from personal injury and to prevent damage to property. This position is a bargaining unit position represented by the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design, install, diagnose problems, and service electrical system components
- Diagnose and repair electro-mechanical and electro-hydraulic devices or systems
- Repair and overhaul electric motors and controllers
- Take periodic measurements of electrical devices for ABS and Coast Guard
- Install or maintain shipboard sound-powered phone systems
- Repair and maintain normal and emergency power distribution switchboards, electrical generators, and all other shipboard power distribution components
- Maintain a clean and safe work area
- Assist other skilled employees in their craft
Equipment Used in Job Performance:
- Mechanical and pneumatic hand tools
- Drill presses, electric drills and grinders, hydraulic hole punches
- Electric wire and cable strippers and crimpers, wire and cable bundling tools, arbor press
- Motor vehicles including trucks and forklifts
- Two-way radios, computers, soldering equipment, irons and torches
- Assortment of electrical and electronic measuring devices necessary to diagnose and effect repairs
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Familiarity with all types of hand tools and measuring devices
- Ability to read and understand electrical schematics and blueprints
- Ability to create technical documents and briefings
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Proficiency in repairing and troubleshooting control circuits
- Knowledge of marine electrical requirements of the USCG and ABS
- Ability to install marine cable and wiring in an approved, neat, and safe manner
- Knowledge of safety precautions involved in this field
- Knowledge of the NEC, IEEE, IEC, and other electrical and electronic conventions
Required Education and Experience:
- High School diploma or equivalent or equivalent related experience
- Experience working with shipboard electrical systems
- Preferred experience working on vessels certificated by the USCG under Title 46 CFR Subchapters H or I
Licenses, Registrations, and/or Certificates:
- Valid driver’s license
- Must apply for and receive Merchant Mariner Credential (MMC) and Transportation Worker Identification Card (TWIC) within 90 days of employment
- Must be willing to attend and successfully complete the following training and obtain required licensing:
- F.C.C. General Radio Telephone License with Radar Endorsement
- Sperry Gyro Training
- Sperry Radar/Radar Unit Training
- Sperry Antenna
Special Requirements:
- Subject to background investigation and pre-employment physical, including drug test
- Requires direct deposit with a financial institution or enrollment in the payroll card program
- Must be available for duty at any hours, day or night, to maintain continuous operation of this facility
- Must be willing to sail on vessels as needed
- Must be able to lift, carry, and transport heavy equipment and boxes (less than 20 lbs.)
- Must be able to work on high ladders, aloft, or over the side of vessels
- Must be able to work in extreme temperatures and humidity
- Must be able to work in confined spaces requiring the use of a respirator
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