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Required Skills: |
Analyse and evaluate available data and observations to form logical conclusions |
Carry out engineering measurements and apply metric and imperial conversions |
Communicate effectively verbally and in writing |
Develop and use research techniques to identify gaps in knowledge and to recognise professional development opportunities |
Disseminate and clarify technical information |
Identify strengths, weaknesses and failure modes of common marine construction materials |
Implement work health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS) principles and protection of the marine environment |
Interpret engineering drawings and diagrams |
Interpret relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, standards and rules |
Manage risks |
Provide customer service |
Read and interpret vessel plans |
Recognise own professional limitations |
Undertake research and analysis using relevant reference material |
Use computers |
Work independently and unsupervised |
Write technical reports |
Required Knowledge: |
Acoustic and thermal insulation principles and practices |
Awareness of working stresses in vessel under load or in a seaway |
Basic principles of stability, procedures for incline experiments, simple roll test, stable and unstable equilibrium |
Commercial vessel classifications and survey requirements for various areas of operations |
Compatibility and durability of construction materials |
Composite production methods, quality assurance and secondary bonding techniques |
Damage propagation caused by defects, poor engineering practice and/or transmission of dynamic forces |
Domestic commercial vessel systems, installation and maintenance |
Documentation and checklists: construction drawings defect list historical records National Standard for the Administration of Marine Safety (NSAMS) Section 4 procedural forms safety management systems stability book standard operating procedures vessel files |
Elementary ergonomic design principals and methods for reducing harm to crew in a seaway |
Environmental controls and regulations |
Forms, causes and prevention of corrosion in a marine environment |
Galvanic series of common metals used in boat building |
Hull forms and vessel types |
Implications of poor ventilation practice |
Insurance, liability and professional indemnity |
Interaction of vessel structures, mechanical systems and appropriate installation practices |
Maintaining watertight integrity |
Marine craft construction: methods, materials and vessel anatomy terminology and definitions |
Marine-grade adhesives, mechanical fasteners, sealants and caulking materials |
Marine protective coatings, fairing compounds and finishes |
Principles of sheathing |
Repair techniques and maintenance procedures for common marine craft construction materials |
Report writing formats |
Safe working practices and risk assessment procedures |
Suitable structural support for out-of-water vessels to prevent topple, sag, hog and/or damage from local stress concentrations |
Vessel construction and repair principles and practices, and the National Standard for Commercial Vessels (NSCV) |
Welding techniques, procedures and standards |
WHS/OHS requirements and safe work practices |