Salary Survey Analysis
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and CompetenciesCaptains, Water Vessel The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.
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CompGeo Occupation Group:
Transportation
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Job Family:
Marine Transportation
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Benchmark Title:
Captains, Water Vessel
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Summary Job Description |
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Command vessels in oceans, bays, lakes, rivers, or coastal waters. |
Steer and operate vessels, using radios, depth finders, radars, lights, buoys, and lighthouses. |
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Compute positions, set courses, and determine speeds, by using charts, area plotting sheets, compasses, sextants, and knowledge of local conditions. |
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Inspect vessels to ensure efficient and safe operation of vessels and equipment, and conformance to regulations. |
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Measure depths of water, using depth-measuring equipment. |
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Direct and coordinate crew members or workers performing activities such as loading and unloading cargo, steering vessels, operating engines, and operating, maintaining, and repairing ship equipment. |
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Monitor the loading and discharging of cargo or passengers. |
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Calculate sightings of land, using electronic sounding devices, and following contour lines on charts. |
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Signal passing vessels, using whistles, flashing lights, flags, and radios. |
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Maintain boats and equipment on board, such as engines, winches, navigational systems, fire extinguishers, and life preservers. |
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Signal crew members or deckhands to rig tow lines, open or close gates and ramps, and pull guard chains across entries. |
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Read gauges to verify sufficient levels of hydraulic fluid, air pressure, and oxygen. |
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Maintain records of daily activities, personnel reports, ship positions and movements, ports of call, weather and sea conditions, pollution control efforts, and/or cargo and passenger status. |
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Arrange for ships to be fueled, restocked with supplies, and/or repaired. |
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Assign watches and living quarters to crew members. |
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Purchase supplies and equipment. |
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Tow and maneuver barges, or signal tugboats to tow barges to destinations. |
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Perform various marine duties such as checking for oil spills or other pollutants around ports and harbors, and patrolling beaches. |
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Collect fares from customers, or signal ferryboat helpers to collect fares. |
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Sort logs, form log booms, and salvage lost logs. |
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Resolve questions or problems with customs officials. |
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Interview and hire crew members. |
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CompGeo Occupation Group:
Transportation
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Job Family:
Marine Transportation
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Benchmark Title:
Captains, Water Vessel
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Important Knowledge Competencies |
Competency Description |
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Public Safety and Security |
Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. |
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Transportation |
Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits. |
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Customer and Personal Service |
Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
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Administration and Management |
Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. |
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Education and Training |
Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. |
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Telecommunications |
Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems. |
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Geography |
Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life. |
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Personnel and Human Resources |
Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems. |
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Psychology |
Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders. |
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Mechanical |
Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. |
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Law and Government |
Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. |
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Mathematics |
Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. |
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English Language |
Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. |
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Computers and Electronics |
Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. |
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CompGeo Occupation Group:
Transportation
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Job Family:
Marine Transportation
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Benchmark Title:
Captains, Water Vessel
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Important Skill Competencies |
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Coordination |
Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. |
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Speaking |
Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
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Operation Monitoring |
Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. |
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Operation and Control |
Controlling operations of equipment or systems. |
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Judgment and Decision Making |
Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
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Active Listening |
Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
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Critical Thinking |
Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. |
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Monitoring |
Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
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Complex Problem Solving |
Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
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Management of Personnel Resources |
Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. |
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Social Perceptiveness |
Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. |
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Instructing |
Teaching others how to do something. |
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Time Management |
Managing one's own time and the time of others. |
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Reading Comprehension |
Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. |
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Active Learning |
Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. |
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Negotiation |
Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. |
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Learning Strategies |
Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. |
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Persuasion |
Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. |
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Writing |
Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. |
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Mathematics |
Using mathematics to solve problems. |
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Quality Control Analysis |
Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. |
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Service Orientation |
Actively looking for ways to help people. |
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Systems Analysis |
Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. |
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Systems Evaluation |
Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. |
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Management of Material Resources |
Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work. |
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Troubleshooting |
Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. |
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CompGeo Occupation Group:
Transportation
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Job Family:
Marine Transportation
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Benchmark Title:
Captains, Water Vessel
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Important Ability Competencies |
Competency Description |
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Oral Expression |
The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
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Oral Comprehension |
The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
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Problem Sensitivity |
The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. |
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Far Vision |
The ability to see details at a distance. |
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Depth Perception |
The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. |
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Speech Clarity |
The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. |
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Spatial Orientation |
The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you. |
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Selective Attention |
The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. |
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Control Precision |
The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. |
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Written Expression |
The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. |
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Deductive Reasoning |
The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
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Near Vision |
The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
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Speech Recognition |
The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
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Written Comprehension |
The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. |
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Inductive Reasoning |
The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). |
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Information Ordering |
The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). |
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Arm-Hand Steadiness |
The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. |
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Manual Dexterity |
The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. |
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Glare Sensitivity |
The ability to see objects in the presence of glare or bright lighting. |
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Category Flexibility |
The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
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Speed of Closure |
The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. |
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Flexibility of Closure |
The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. |
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Perceptual Speed |
The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. |
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Time Sharing |
The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). |
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Reaction Time |
The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. |
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Fluency of Ideas |
The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). |
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Visualization |
The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. |
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Multilimb Coordination |
The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. |
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Response Orientation |
The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part. |
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Auditory Attention |
The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. |
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Originality |
The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. |
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Finger Dexterity |
The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. |
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Rate Control |
The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. |
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Visual Color Discrimination |
The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. |
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Mathematical Reasoning |
The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. |
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Number Facility |
The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. |
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Hearing Sensitivity |
The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. |
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Peripheral Vision |
The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead. |
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CompGeo Occupation Group:
Transportation
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Job Family:
Marine Transportation
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Benchmark Title:
Captains, Water Vessel
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Tools/Technology Example |
Product Category |
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Computerized maintenance management system CMMS software |
Facilities management software |
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Jeppesen Marine Nobeltec Admiral |
Route navigation software |
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KNMI TurboWin |
Data base user interface and query software |
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Log book software |
Data base user interface and query software |
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Maptech The CAPN |
Route navigation software |
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Automatic radar plotting aids ARPA |
Vehicle navigation systems |
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Bolt cutters |
Bolt cutters |
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Bridge to bridge radiotelephones |
Marine craft communications systems |
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Carbon dioxide CO2 fire extinguishing systems |
Fire suppression system |
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Carbon dioxide CO2 flooding systems |
Fire suppression system |
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Cargo derricks |
Hoists |
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Centrifugal cargo pumps |
Centrifugal pumps |
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Claw hammers |
Hammers |
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Container lift trucks |
Loading equipment |
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Crescent wrenches |
Open end wrenches |
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Desktop computers |
Desktop computers |
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Differential global positioning systems DGPS |
Vehicular global positioning systems |
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Dividers |
Compasses |
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Drafting triangles |
Triangles |
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Dynamic positioning DP systems |
Vehicle navigation systems |
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Echo sounders |
Depth gauges |
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Electric deck cranes |
Bridge cranes |
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Electric telegraphs |
Telegraph sounders |
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Electronic chart display and information systems ECDIS |
Vehicle navigation systems |
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Emergency fire pumps |
Fire pump sets |
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Emergency generators |
Gas generators |
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Fathometer sonar equipment |
Sonars |
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Fire alarm switches |
Alarm systems |
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Firefighting suits |
Fire retardant apparel |
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First aid kits |
Emergency medical services first aid kits |
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Foam fire extinguishing systems |
Fire suppression system |
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Gear pumps |
Gear pumps |
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Global Navigation Satellite System GNSS |
Vehicle navigation systems |
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Global positioning systems GPS |
Vehicular global positioning systems |
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Grabbing cranes |
Bridge cranes |
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Gyrocompasses |
Gyroscopic instruments |
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Hand punches |
Punches or nail sets or drifts |
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High frequency HF radiotelephone systems |
Marine craft communications systems |
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Hydraulic deck cranes |
Bridge cranes |
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Immersion suits |
Insulated or flotation suits |
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Integrated bridge systems |
Vehicle navigation systems |
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Life buoys |
Life rings |
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Life rafts |
Lifeboats or liferafts |
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Life vests |
Life vests or preservers |
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Lifeboat davits |
Lifts |
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Lifting slings |
Slings |
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Lifting spreaders |
Loading equipment |
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Line throwing appliances |
Rope float lines |
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Locking jaw pliers |
Locking pliers |
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Long range navigation LORAN systems |
Vehicle navigation systems |
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Magnet hoists |
Hoists |
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Magnetic compasses |
Direction finding compasses |
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Mechanical telegraphs |
Telegraph sounders |
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Mooring winches |
Winches |
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Navigational compasses |
Direction finding compasses |
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Parallel plotters |
Plotter printers |
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Parallel rules |
Straight edges |
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Personal computers |
Personal computers |
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Pilot ladders |
Ladders |
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Pipe wrenches |
Pipe wrenches |
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Portable carbon dioxide fire extinguishers |
Fire extinguishers |
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Portable dry chemical fire extinguishers |
Fire extinguishers |
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Portable water fire extinguishers |
Fire extinguishers |
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Pyrotechnic distress signals |
Flares |
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Radio direction finders RDF |
Radio navigation instruments |
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Rescue slings |
Cinch rescue loops |
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Respirators |
Respirators |
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Rotary displacement pumps |
Rotary pumps |
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Safety belts |
Safety harnesses or belts |
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Safety glasses |
Safety glasses |
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Safety helmets |
Safety helmets |
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Safety lanyards |
Fall protection lanyard |
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Screw displacement pumps |
Screw Pumps |
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Semaphores |
Marine signaling systems |
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Sextants |
Sextants |
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Sharpening steels |
Sharpening stones or tools or kits |
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Ship alarm systems |
Alarm systems |
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Ship's whistles |
Marine signaling systems |
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Signal flags |
Marine signaling systems |
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Signal light controls |
Marine signaling systems |
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Sounding rods |
Depth gauges |
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Spanner wrenches |
Spanner wrenches |
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Steering control systems |
Vehicle navigation systems |
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Surveillance binoculars |
Binoculars |
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Thermal protective aids TPA |
Insulated clothing for cold environments |
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Totally enclosed motor propelled survival craft TEMPSC |
Lifeboats or liferafts |
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Ultra high frequency UHF radiotelephone systems |
Marine craft communications systems |
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Very high frequency VHF radiotelephone systems |
Marine craft communications systems |
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Voice pipes |
Marine craft communications systems |
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Voyage management systems VMS |
Vehicle navigation systems |
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Workshop vises |
Bench vises |
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CompGeo Occupation Group:
Transportation
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Job Family:
Marine Transportation
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Benchmark Title:
Captains, Water Vessel
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Prerequisite Qualification Category |
Education and Experience Level |
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Required Level of Education |
Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in Personnel Services, Engineering-related Technologies, Vocational Home Economics, Construction Trades, Mechanics and Repairers, Precision Production Trades) |
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Related Work Experience |
Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years |
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CompGeo Occupation Group:
Transportation
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Job Family:
Marine Transportation
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Benchmark Title:
Captains, Water Vessel
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Alternate Job Title(s) |
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Barge Captain |
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Barge Master |
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Boat Captain |
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Boat Master |
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Boat Operator |
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Boatswain |
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Canal Boat Captain |
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Canal Boat Operator |
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Captain |
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Car Ferry Captain |
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Car Ferry Master |
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Charter Boat Captain |
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Commercial Boat Captain |
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Container Vessel Master |
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Cruise Boat Captain |
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Deck Officer |
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Deep Submergence Vehicle Operator |
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Derrick Boat Captain |
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Dredge Captain |
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Ferry Boat Captain |
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Ferry Boat Pilot |
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Ferry Captain |
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Ferry Terminal Supervisor |
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Ferryboat Captain |
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Ferryboat Operator |
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Fishing Vessel Captain |
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Harbor Tug Captain |
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Inland Captain |
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Lighter Captain |
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Marine Captain |
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Marine Superintendent |
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Mariner |
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Master |
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Master Mariner |
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Mate |
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Merchant Mariner Captain |
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Navigation Officer |
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Navigator |
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Ocean Going Tug Captain |
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Officer |
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Oil Crew Boat Captain |
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Oil Tanker Captain |
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Operations Manager |
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Passenger Barge Master |
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Passenger Vessels Captain |
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Pilot |
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Port Captain |
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Relief Captain |
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River Boat Captain |
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River Captain |
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Riverboat Master |
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Sailboat Captain |
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Sailing Master |
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Scow Captain |
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Sea Captain |
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Ship Captain |
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Ship Master |
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Ship's Captain |
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Shipmaster |
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Shrimp Boat Captain |
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Sling Operator |
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Sloop Captain |
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Sport Fishing Vessel Captain |
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Steamboat Captain |
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Supply Boat Captain |
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Tanker Captain |
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Tour Boat Captain |
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Tow Boat Captain |
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Towboat Captain |
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Towing Vessel Captain |
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Tug Boat Captain |
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Tug Captain |
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Tugboat Captain |
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Tugboat Operator |
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Vessel Captain |
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Vessel Master |
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Water Vessel Captain |
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Yacht Captain |
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Yacht Master |
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CompGeo Occupation Group:
Transportation
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Job Family:
Marine Transportation
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Benchmark Title:
Captains, Water Vessel
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