Know this thread is over a year old hoping to get some insight though. Worked by 6 years in the maritime industry graduated deckie with Logistics and intermodal transportation. Wanting to get out but really don't know where to start and from anyone's experience with our line of work what if any jobs are there that I could transition into where i'm not starting from square one.
I am sure you will get some comments from others in your line of work, but in my years of AD in and out of Military Sealift Command staffs and offices, there were many maritime academy deck grads working in Operations scheduling both USNS and charter ships, doing liaison with contract operators, planning exercises and loadouts, running the propositioned ship program, coordinating port agent services, etc. They were not CIVMARS, but “regular” Federal civilians who worked at the big MSC staffs as well as the smaller MSCO’s scattered around. Similar for maritime academy engineer grads working as port engineers, etc., as part of MSC shore staff.
Go to usajobs, the Federal job site, create an account, set up a search focused on Military Sealift Command, MARAD and Department of Transportation. It takes some practice and research to get the hang of Federal hires, but it can be done. Regular salary, good healthcare benefits, education benefits, opportunity for advancement.
Department of the Army has way more boats than the Army has ships. Surely they have some Federal civilians.
Ditto NOAA.
I think those folks at MSC were “Marine Transportation Specialists (or Analysts),” I can’t recall.
You also have to figure similar “ops type” positions exist in the shoreside offices of the commercial shipping and cruise ship industry.
Major port cities will also have city and state employees running port operations.
I am looking forward to others’ suggestions. There are probably areas that will surprise you.
Just did some research for you, see link below. Looks like MSC is also a direct hiring authority, for certain jobs and applicants they can bypass the usajobs catch-all process.
Be sure to look at the hamburger menu. There are upcoming virtual job fairs.