Vacancies for Electrician

Electrician is one of the Engine Department officers who takes cake of the electric equipment onboard. His main responsibility are generators and electrical circuits; their faultless operation and maintenance.

Electrician performs daily checks of main switchboards, works with Low and High Voltage equipment and upkeeps Lifeboat Electrical Winches, Lifeboat Electrical Motors, Emergency Light batteries and so on. This officer is also expected to repair deck winches, galley machines and navigational, radio and satellite equipment, etc.

The salary rate for this position starts from USD 1800 - 2000 for General cargo ships and small utility vessels such as Tug or Crew boats. There is a good leap to the wage of USD 4000 on Bulk Carriers, Container Ships, Heavy-Lifts, Multi-Purpose vessels and similar.

Electricians on the Oil Product Tanker will get from USD 4000 to USD 5000, while work on Chemical or Gas tanker will guarantee USD 5000 per month and more.

For offshore fleet ETO or El. Engineers are more commonly recruited. According to statistics, salaries start from USD 150 per day for small crafts and go up to USD 200 - 225 for proper size AHTS, PSV, Pipe Layers and similar vessels.