A permanent full-time post with CalMac Ferries, working as crew on the Clyde passenger vessels and covering relief command when needed. The work centres on passenger and vessel safety, running machinery and safety systems, mooring, and ticketing and cash handling, with full command authority when acting as boatmaster. The rota runs one or two weeks on and off, depending on the vessel allocated, across 42 hours. A boatmaster licence, an ENG1 medical and living within daily commuting distance of the base are central to fit.
What the job involves
- Ensuring passenger safety and compliance with the company safety management system
- Taking command decisions for the safety of passengers, crew and vessel when acting as boatmaster, including refusing passengers and dismissing seafarers for misconduct
- Maintaining lifesaving and firefighting equipment and safety systems, and running emergency drills
- Co-ordinating emergency procedures and summoning outside assistance when needed
- Starting, stopping and monitoring main engines, generators and other ship systems, with daily checks and corrective action
- Ensuring the vessel is manned to MCA requirements and stability criteria are met
- Carrying out routine, planned and general maintenance, cleaning and painting, and reporting technical faults
- Undertaking mooring and bunkering operations
- Counting and recording passengers and ensuring numbers meet passenger certificates
- Issuing tickets, collecting fares, handling cash and depositing takings
- Providing customer care to passengers
- Keeping the official logbook, garbage record book and oil record book up to date
Qualifications
- Tier 1 Level 2 Boatmaster Licence with passenger vessel endorsement, or Tier 2 Level 2 endorsed for service vessels and area
- GMDSS RYA Short Range Certificate
- STCW2010 Basic Elements
- Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting
- Elementary First Aid
- Personal Survival Techniques
Registration & licences
- Valid ENG1 certificate with no limitations
- Pilot Exemption Certificate for relevant Clyde routes
- PSSR
Skills & knowledge
- Building close working relationships with internal marine, technical, area operations and port managers, and external stakeholders on operational and marine matters
Other
- Living locally or within daily commuting distance of Gourock
Nice to have
- Safety focus and familiarity with CoSWP, permit to work and risk assessment processes
- Strong awareness of the business environment
- Robust customer interface and a proactive, positive approach to customer care
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
