Lead Engineer - Maritime - Alcatraz Cruises

Company: Hornblower
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: March 12, 2025

Job Description:

Salary $120,000

City Experiences is seeking a Lead Engineer for our Alcatraz operation in San Francisco.

About You:

This person will be adaptable, dynamic, and embody City Experiences' RESPECT Service System.

About the Opportunity:

Responsible for the routine maintenance and janitorial of both the vessels and facilities. Maintains and follows up on jobs and projects. Communicates, provides directions, and supports Engineers & Mechanics with their daily job assignments and duties. Assists the Port Engineer with coordinating various projects and jobs and reports back status of work assignments of engineering department. Records jobs status in appropriate programs and maintains records with accuracy.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Strong hands-on experience of vessel engineering and maintenance.
• Ensures that all vessels exceed the minimum standards for the USCG and all Federal, State, and local safety standards.
• Designs and oversees testing, installation, and repair of marine apparatus and equipment.
• Conducts analytical, environmental, operational or performance studies to develop designs for products, such as marine engines, equipment, and structures.
• Prepares, or directs the preparation of, product or system layouts and detailed drawings and schematics.
• Evaluates operation of marine equipment.
• Analyzes data to determine feasibility of product proposals.
• Confers with research personnel to clarify or resolve problems, and to develop or modify designs.
• Investigates and observe tests on machinery and equipment for compliance with standards.
• Conducts environmental, operational or performance tests on marine machinery and equipment.
• Determines conditions under which tests are to be conducted, as well as sequences and phases of test operations.
• Maintains and coordinates repair of marine machinery and equipment for installation on vessels.
• Inspects marine equipment and machinery to draw up work requests and job specifications.
• Reviews work requests, and compare them with previous work completed on Vessels in order to ensure that costs are economically sound.
• Prepares technical reports for use by engineering, marine operations, and upper management.
• Maintains contact with, and formulate reports for, contractors and clients to ensure completion of work at minimum cost.
• Coordinates activities with regulatory bodies to ensure repairs and alterations are at minimum cost, consistent with safety.
• Procures materials needed to repair marine equipment and machinery
• Acts as liaisons between vessels' captains and Landing crews to ensure that schedules and budgets are maintained, and that vessels are operated safely and efficiently.
• Checks, tests, and maintains automatic controls and alarm systems.
• Maintains records of engineering department activities, including expense records and details of equipment maintenance and repairs.
• Performs monitoring activities to ensure that vessels comply with international regulations and standards for life saving equipment and pollution preventatives.
• Prepares plans, estimates, design and construction schedules, and contract specifications, including any special provisions.
• Schedules machine overhauls and the servicing of electrical, heating, ventilation, refrigeration, water, and sewage systems.
• Supervises other engineers and crewmembers, and train them for routine and emergency duties.
• Maintains all equipment to manufacturer's specifications.
• Performs other duties as assigned. OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Represents Department in Meetings
  • In tandem with Port Mechanic, serves as liaison with Vendors
  • Oversees and supports SEAT operations as necessary to deliver a safe and reliable guest experience. Requirements & Qualifications:
    • HAZWOPER certificate (40 hours)
    • HAZMAT certificate
    • Project management skills
    • Engineering experience required
    • Customer service experience very helpful
    • Knowledge of foreign language helpful
    • Basic computer skills i.e.. Windows, for utilizing reporting programs
    • Valid CA Driver's License.
    • Open schedule and ability to work any assigned schedule, including holidays and weekends
    • Ability to work a shift that may start as early as 4:30 am or end as late as 10:45 pm. Shifts are 8 hours. About Us:
      
      City Experiences' passion is to provide amazing experiences on land and water. Our 40-year success through organic growth and acquisitions has resulted in a portfolio of over 25+ brands that welcome upwards of 30 million guests/riders annually. If you're an enthusiastic team player who thrives in an environment where communication, creativity, and cooperation are encouraged, this may just be the opportunity for you.
      
      The RESPECT Service System embodies City Experiences' mission, vision, values, and operating principles. By creating a company culture that puts RESPECT at its core, we believe it will drive us to achieve our goal of becoming a Global Experiences and Transportation Leader.
      
      Our Mission: We create amazing experiences.
      
      Our Values: Respect, Environment, Safety #1, Professionalism, Exceed, Communication and Teamwork.
      
      Our Operating Principles: CITY EXPERIENCES 12
      
    • Foster diversity and inclusion.
    • Practice conservation and environmental responsibility.
    • Cultivate a safe and secure workplace.
    • Be on time. Come prepared.
    • Make data-driven, fact-based decisions.
    • Be decisive with 80:100 solutions (80% right, 100% implementable)
    • Expect to win - but compete as an underdog.
    • Embrace innovation and reinvention.
    • Listen and be responsive.
    • Strive for efficiency and transparency without politics.
    • Win as a team. Play your role.
    • Work hard, have fun, celebrate success.
      EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:
      
      The Company is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. The Company is committed to providing equal opportunity in all employment practices, including, but not limited to, selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, handicap or disability, pregnancy, service member status, citizenship status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.
      
      Additionally, we encourage all qualified applicants, including those with past arrest or conviction records, to apply. The Company participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations.
      
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