2. Brief Job Description
These people are professionals who design, build and maintain
ships and marine equipments to travel and study marine habitat.
They have the responsibilities of making sure pumps, propellers and
other mechanical parts of a ship or marine vehicle are functioning
and good enough to make through the journey. These people are
experts that check the equipments and machinery to make sure the
marine machinery are working well, and work out job requests and
job opportunities as their responsibilities.
3. Required Training - high school and postsecondary
Education requirements -
- A large amount of education in the S.T.E.M. subjects
- Understanding in the basic concepts of water propulsion, fluid
dynamics and ship building
- A bachelor’s degree in naval architecture, marine systems
engineering, marine engineering and/or ship building
- (Master’s degree) maintaining of marine power plants and
management in building marine architecture
4. Skills and Characteristics for Succession
The engineer or naval architect should have skills such as analyzing
of charts and graphs, be able to draw ships and naval crafts, have a
lot of intellectual and communicative conversation to persuade or
explain the problems and solutions to clients, and can fix small
issues on the machinery whenever needed to do so.
5. Typical Wages
A typical wage is about 84,000 dollars per year, but the range is
from 66,000 to 96,000 depending on how much experience and
skills that engineers and naval architects has.
In some areas, and in high paying states, the pay can range from
94,000 to 128,000 dollars and the job can still increase from there if
you become an extremely skilled and experienced, well-known
marine engineers or naval architects.
7. Job Outlook
This job is available in many states (mostly in the southern U.S.)
and there is a consistent 7.2% increase in marine engineering jobs
for 10 to 20 years. The job availability for marine engineering is
average 0.13 for a thousand employees for a placement. The job
outlook is pretty good, for 13%, since electrical, industrial and
mechanical range from 2% to 5%. This job is a little free roam,
where you can be an independent, of course, you still have to be in a
company, but you will be trusted and respected very much because
of the impact your work will have.
8. Job Listing
Marine engineer
Bozzutos - Cheshire, CT
Chief Marine Engineer
to work on operation, maintenance, repair of all systems associated with ship operation of 3000 gt/3000 Kw.
Responsible for all systems associated with a large private ship. Will travel and/or relocate to ship which docks at
various ports throughout United States as required.
Company - Bozzutos
Location - Cheshire, CT 06477
Industries - Other/Not Classified
Job Type - Full Time Employee
9. Professional Association
Online Associations
- Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology
- International for Maritime and Ocean Professional
- Marine Technology Society
Appledore Marine - Offices located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Port Saint Joe,
Florida; Seattle, Washington; and Honolulu, Hawaii
Quantum Hydraulics - Quantum Marine Engineering of Florida, Inc. | 3790 SW 30th Ave |
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312
Argonautics Marine Engineering, Inc Herbert Engineering Corp.
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