Coast Guard Career

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Coast guards are fraction of the (MCA) Maritime & Coast Guard Agency service, which manages search as well as rescue all along the British coast, and inspects unlawful shipping actions plus pollution incidents.

You might effort within the coast guard job like a coast-guard watch subordinate, coast guard watch officer or coast guard rescue officer helper/volunteer.

You will generally begin like a coast guard watch assistant, offering an organizational or administrative support moreover functioning within operations rooms.

Your responsibilities would contain:

• obtaining and managing 999 phone calls
• supervising equipment
• granting details on security at marine to the common people
• suggesting security measures to skippers of minute craft
• offering meteorological details and local weather news
• renewing logs & finishing common administration

• functioning into operational centers
• participating in coastal searches, cliff release and ship/boat work (in several posts)

QUALIFICATION, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

You would typically unite the coast-guard job like a watch assistant. On behalf of this post you require:

• a superior standard of numeracy and literacy
• typing and IT ability

• excellent hearing & eyesight
• a superior level of literacy as well as numeracy
• wide-ranging seagoing experience or understanding

• the Royal Air Force, the Royal Navy or the Merchant Navy
• further activities concerning navigation and boat work
• experience like a coast guard rescue-officer volunteer

• Maritime & coast guard agency: details on how to become a coast guard volunteer

Being a fresh coast guard, you initiate by getting guidance/training by the Maritime along with Coast-guard Agency Center at Highcliffe, Dorset.

After completing this, you may link a program that combines classroom based study, self study moreover on-job training.

Since a volunteer, you might be estimated to concentrate standard training.

SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE:

• an attention into the sea & maritime matters
• a knowledge of the utilization of communication equipment
• the capability to effort under stress and into emergency circumstances
• the skill to review situations promptly plus formulate sound conclusions
• an understandable speaking accent
• the skill to effort as element of a team
• leadership capability, since you might have to obtain charge during an emergency conditions.

• Watch assistants may get approximately $18,000 in a year.
• Watch officers could gross roughly $21,000 yearly.

You will job any one of the 18 maritime rescue centers in the region of the coast, otherwise at the headquarters into Southampton. You would generally exert 42 hrs in a week, on a shift basis over 7 days. Part time hrs could be obtainable.

You would be based into a demanding operational center set with a variety of communication equipment, for instance radio in addition to satellite trailing devices.

Being a watch officer, you will be present at sea during all weathers, on patrol or else rescue missions, & be concerned within cliff as well as coastal investigation & rescue. You should be ready to effort wherever within the UK.

DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES:

You will be in employment via the (MCA) Marine Coast-guard Agency into locations approximately the coast.

Rescue officer volunteer along with watch assistants are employed nearby - you must get in touch with the District Operation Manager by your nearby coastal guard station for further information of openings. Notice the MCA site for locality.

Watch officer jobs are publicized into the journalist & on the MCA online site.

By means of experience, you can be encouraged from coast-guard watch assistant till watch officer, after that to watch manager or else section manager.

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