What are some maritime engineering jobs in which you are either home every night OR have relatively short tours (say, a month or less)?
If not maritime-specific, what are some good jobs for people looking to transition towards something on shore after years of sailing?
Thank you.
Port engineer
Washington State or Staten Island Ferries.
Depending on where you live, harbor tug.
Sounds like you have busted your knuckles. Port engineer has a desk in the building, but will require much travel to confirm and monitor repairs among the fleet. Large fleet, better pay, Small fleet less pay, but you still rack up airline miles. Woopdee do
I highly recommend seagoing engineers spend some time as Port Engineers. It really broadens one’s experience to get the bigger picture on how things get done. Settling up repairs, dealing with vendors, and settling invoices is an eye-opening experience.
OSVs are usually 28 days
Even just a regular tug should be a bit shorter than deep sea jobs.
GOM OSV’s are either 3/3 or 6/3. Overseas have longer tours.
Find an even time maritime job. Tugs if you live near them, osv work has too many feast or famine cycles. I was surprised when I looked at the carrers page for a hospital less than 5 mins from my house. About 1/3rd the pay but I could walk to work. But no matter how hard I tried to daydream about it I couldn’t wrap my head around the idea of quitting a parttime job working 6 months or less a year at a doctor’s salary for a job of 50 weeks a year for a school teachers salary. Actually, school teachers & bus drivers have it better because they get weekends, summers, spring, Christmas & fall breaks off.
USACE. They don’t hire often, but if you get the job you home every night.
Staten Island Ferry, Port Jefferson Ferry, Cape May/Delaware Ferry.
What he said but the Dredge Wheeler is 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off. I have worked on it for 40 years and love my job! Started on deck(A/B) out of Navy and now hold Master Unlimited. The schedule allows for a good family life and you can plan things out for months ahead!
https://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/Missions/Navigation/Dredging-Information/
Just curious mud. Did you work with a fellow hawsepiper ,(George Decker) who worked many dredges before his passing. Was mate on the one that dragged anchor in bad weather at Oregon Inlet and hit the bridge. Small world, saw him and the cook on a plane to New Orleans a few days later. A fine fellow and shipmate. Was a door gunner in Nam from Pearl River,La.
There are many more other vessels at army corps disposal, Drift collection, survey , etc. all work 8 hours day.