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The Great Lakes Towing Company & Great Lakes Shipyard Now Hiring with 50 Jobs Available

03/09/2016

Now Seek­ing Can­di­dates to Fill a Wide Range of Posi­tions Includ­ing Naval Archi­tects, Ship­yard Welders & Pipe Fit­ters, Project Man­agers and More!

The Great Lakes Tow­ing Com­pa­ny, own­er and oper­a­tor of the largest fleet of ship­dock­ing tug­boats on the U.S. Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence Riv­er Sea­way, and Great Lakes Ship­yard, the lead­ing full-ser­vice ship repairs and con­struc­tion oper­a­tion on the Great Lakes with a world-class facil­i­ty and state-of-the-art equip­ment announced plans to hire 50 employ­ees before the end of Q1 2016 to sup­port con­tin­ued growth dri­ven by client demand.

“At The Tow­ing Com­pa­ny, we’re look­ing for great peo­ple to join our team and grow with us,” said Joe Star­ck, The Company’s Pres­i­dent. “We are com­mit­ted to hir­ing a diverse team of peo­ple – pro­vid­ing employ­ees with a unique oppor­tu­ni­ty to learn and devel­op through train­ing to per­pet­u­ate our posi­tion as a leader in the Great Lakes com­mu­ni­ty and through­out the industry.”

Current shipyard positions include:

  • Ship­yard Welders & Pipe Fitters
  • Naval Archi­tects
  • Project Engi­neers
  • Qual­i­ty Managers
  • Out­side Machinists
  • Mechan­ics
  • Diesel Mechan­ics
  • Marine Elec­tri­cians
  • Steel Fore­man
  • Paint Fore­man

Current towing positions include:

  • Tug Cap­tains
  • Tug Engi­neers
  • Senior Port Engineers

The Company offers an excellent benefits package that includes:

  • Health­care
  • Den­tal
  • Vision
  • Life insur­ance
  • Short-term and long term dis­abil­i­ty insurance
  • Employ­ee assis­tance program
  • 401(k) prof­it shar­ing plan
  • Vaca­tion and sick time
  • Com­pa­ny paid holidays
  • Friend­ly work­ing environment

The Tow­ing Com­pa­ny has posi­tions avail­able at its head­quar­ters in Cleve­land, Ohio. Inter­est­ed can­di­dates can sub­mit their resume and/or appli­ca­tion to:

Email: hr@thegreatlakesgroup.com

Fax: 216–781-7472; or by mail, Attn: Human Resources Depart­ment, The Great Lakes Group, 4500 Divi­sion Avenue, Cleve­land, OH 44102

The Great Lakes Tow­ing Com­pa­ny is an Affir­ma­tive Action & Equal Oppor­tu­ni­ty Employ­er M|F|Vets|Disabled.