What are the responsibilities and job description for the Deckhand I position at AmSea?
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Duties and Responsibilities |
- Attach trawl doors, nets, transducers, slings, hooks, and other lift devices to cables, booms, and hoists. (Forces from this heavy equipment can exceed 150 tons)
- Load equipment and supplies aboard vessel by hand or using hoisting equipment
- Signal other workers to move, hoist, and to position loads
- Operate a skiff to transport crew members
- Attach accessories such as floats, weights, and markers to nets and lines
- Pull and guide nets and lines onto vessel
- Remove fish from nets, sorts and cleans catch and returns undesirable catch to sea
- Wash deck, conveyors, and other equipment
- Lubricate and adjusts equipment
- Secure and removes vessel’s mooring lines to and from docks and other vessels
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Job Interdependencies |
In order to be successful, the employee in this job will need to depend on, work closely with and partner with a number of others in the office and the vessels. These interdependencies include:
- Factory Management
- Processors
- Bridge personnel
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Competencies/Skills Required |
- Must be able to give and follow visual directions and specific verbal instructions in English
- Must be able to put on a survival suit, unassisted
- Must be able to operate a lifeboat/skiff
- Must be able to walk to assigned lifeboat station with no physical assistance, while wearing a survival suit
- Must be able to live in close shared quarters with others, and be able to climb in and out of bunk beds 50 inches high
- Must have good balance/equilibrium
- Must be able to be on-board ship for long periods, without suffering from motion sickness
- Must be able to operate moving machinery, without need for medication that limits such activity
- Must be capable of working up to 16 hours per day – with no time off, during a 4 month period
- Must be able to climb up on fishing nets, when full
- Must be able to splice/repair tears in net (requires exceptional spatial and manual dexterity skills)
- Must be crane certified
- Able Bodied Seaman endorsement strongly desired
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Physical Ability Required |
- Ability to pass a pre-employment and random drug tests
- Ability to pass a Fit For Duty exam on an annual basis
- Must be capable of boarding and exiting a vessel without physical assistance by climbing up and down a gangplank or using a Jacob’s ladder
- Must climb or descend one or more set of steep stairs, or vertical ladders inside and outside the vessel in all weather conditions as extreme as 30 degrees below zero
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Work Schedule |
- 12 hours or more per day for the duration of the trip, including loading and unloading
- Ability to work at sea for extended periods of time
- Pay: Estimated earnings of $8,000 - $9,500 per trip before taxes (average is two trips per month)
