Abra Seaman

Responsible for using emergency, lifesaving, damage control, and safety equipment on a merchant ship, performing general maintenance, repair, and sanitation duties, and standing watch to ensure the ship maintains a steady course.
**Primary Responsibilities**
- Stand watch as helmsman and lookout.
- Maintain a steady course, properly execute all rudder orders and communicate utilizing navigational terms relating to heading and steering.
- Perform general maintenance, repair, sanitation and upkeep of material, equipment, and areas in the deck department.
- Maintain ship's metal structures by chipping, scraping, cleaning, priming, and painting.
- Clean, maintain, and repair the hull, decks, superstructure, cargo gear, and smoke stack.
- Perform maintenance on lifeboats, rescue boats and life rafts, and emergency and damage control gear.
- Use emergency, lifesaving, damage control, and safety equipment.
- Perform all operations connected with the launching of lifesaving equipment.
- Operate deck machinery, such as the windlass or winches while mooring or unmooring, and to operate cargo gear.
- Look for obstructions in path of vessel.

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**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: AED2,700.00 per month

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Dubai: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Abra Seaman: 3 years (preferred)
- Marine Vessels: 2 years (preferred)

License/Certification:

- Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (preferred)