Your profession: Engineering Watchkeeping Officer (m/f)

Professional activities

Engineering watchkeeping officers undertake planning, command and monitoring tasks in the marine engineering service. This includes, for example, undertaking engineering watch.

Fields of work

Engineering watch officers work:

on board ships in all areas of coastal shipping and maritime shipping
on board cargo ships, ferries and passenger vessels
on board fishing vessels
on board official vessels
in ship construction companies

Regulation

This profession is regulated in Germany.

The professional profiles are based on information from berufenet at the Federal Employment Agency and BIBB (Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training).