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Marine Mechanic

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Full Keel Marine LLC
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Job Description
As a Certified Marine Mechanic at Full Keel Marine, you’ll play a crucial role in maintaining and repairing marine vessels both pleasure and commercial. Whether it’s a small boat or a larger offshore vessel, your expertise will keep these vessels running safely and smoothly. You hold our customers safety and experience in your hands. Here are the key responsibilities and requirements included in but not limited to this position:  
Job Description: Certified Marine Mechanic
Reports To: Operations Manager
*Primary responsibilities and duties and necessary qualifications for this role*
 
  1. General
    • Adhering to Full Keel Marine’s work schedule while reliably reporting to work at Full Keel Marine and/or traveling to other marinas, docks, and customer’s houses or wherever the job is located.
    • Be reliable and report to work on schedule. This full-time position runs Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, with lunch from 12:00 to 12:45. Overtime is available but requires supervisor approval.
  1. Core Value: Regardless of the perceived customers budget, vessel condition or any other perception, our mission is to always perform the job to a high-quality standard.  All work needs to be held to the Keel Standard.
  2. Troubleshooting: Diagnosing and developing a plan to repair engine or bot system problems.  
  3. Service and Repairs: Your tasks will include but not be limited to servicing and making repairs on outboard engines, boat systems, boat trailers and any other marine-related problems dispatched to you.  
  4. Engine Part Replacement: Replacing broken or worn-out engine components.
  5. Testing Engine Performance: You’ll assess the performance of marine engines and boat systems at the shop or underway on sea trial.  
  6. Installation of Marine Electronics: Replacing or installing new application marine electronics including but not limited to MFD’s Radars, Transducer, Stereos and Radios. 
  7. Handling, Assisting in Hauling, Launching and Transportation (Trailering) of Vessels.  
  8. Assisting Yard Crew:  On occasion you may be required to assist the yard crew team in various tasks including but not limited to yard movements of vessels, loading and unloading, cleaning, detailing and painting.  
  9. Record Keeping: Completing service records utilizing Boatyard
  10. Keeping A Clean Work Area: Both in the shop and aboard customer vessels, cleanliness and organization with specific attention to not damaging customer or company equipment is a crucial requirement of this job.  After all work is performed you must clean up the boat after yourself.  (Every boat should leave the shop cleaner than it was when it arrived)

Qualifications and Requirements:

  1. Education: High school diploma or GED.
  2. Valid Drivers License and Reliable Transportation.
  3. Preferred Formal Instructor Led Training: Prior formal training at a Yamaha or equivalent outboard training school.  Including ABYC Instructor led Training.
  4. General Marine Vessel Knowledge:  Understanding the basic terminology and layouts of marine vessels.  
  5. Experience: Proven work experience as a marine mechanic.
  6. Safety: Safety focus and compliance during all work evolutions.
  7. Organization: Ability to keep a clean and tidy workspace.  
  8. Team Work:  Ability to work as a member of a team and with peers in a professional manner. 
  9. Technical Knowledge:
    • Familiarity with marine engine and vessel systems including electronics and steering.  .
    • Intermediate to High-Level troubleshooting skills.
    • Understanding of marine rigging processes and applications.  (Yamaha Preferred)
  10. Physical Abilities:
    • Ability to lift objects safely and effectively up to 50 lbs.
    • Ability to work in multiple seasonal climates.  Cold and Hot and everything in between.  
    • Comfort working in confined spaces.
    • Willingness to work a 40 hour work week with occasional voluntary and mandatory overtime.  
  11. Additional Skills:
    • Safe boat handling and navigation
    • Trailering of boats
    • General computer skills specifically to be able to utilize Boatyard System.
    • Ability to operate yard specific equipment to include but not limited to Safe Operation Always First
      1. Trucks
      2. Forklifts
      3. Tractors
 
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