Maritime Training - Mountwest Community and Technical College

Maritime Training from Mountwest Community and Technical College is a Campus Certificate Marine degree that prepares you for a Transportation career. Program Description: The Maritime Training in Technical Studies program provides training to career-oriented individuals interested in obtaining a One-Year certificate in inland marine-related subjects. Individuals typically start out as deckhands and can progress to positions of greater responsibility based upon experience and meeting U.S. Coast Guard regulated licensing requirements. Deckhands are responsible for rigging barges, maintaining barges once underway, and performing routine maintenance on towboats and barges. Career Outlook: The job outlook is expected to remain competitive for jobs in water transportation occupations. Increased river traffic (expected to grow 1.1% per year along the Ohio River through the year 2060) plus an aging workforce will provide opportunities for employment to both entry-level and tenured workers. Career Description: The maritime worker is responsible for movement of huge amounts of cargo, as well as passengers, within the nation. The barge and towing industry provides: Extended time-off to its workers. When working, they are usually on duty for 6-hour periods, 24 hours a day, for up to 21 days. After each completed work schedule on board a towboat, workers have several days off at a stretch totaling as much as 6 months of time off annually; The flexibility to live where they want. Towboat crews often live several hundred miles from the waterways where they work. This flexibility means workers can live near their family and friends and still be able to meet the boat when it is time to head back to work; The opportunity for a stable, well-paid career with unlimited potential to move up to positions of greater responsibility in a dynamic industry and drug-free environment. Maritime workers operate and maintain tugboats, dredges, excursion vessels and various waterborne craft on the Great Lakes, rivers and canals, and other waterways in harbors. After 18 months of actual deckhand experience, individuals can attend U.S. Coast Guard- approved license training that leads to a license as a Master of Towing Vessels. Employment Opportunities: Deckhand Tankerman Engineer Mate Pilot Master View more details on Mountwest Community and Technical College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Marine courses.