The Great Lakes Towing Company & Great Lakes Shipyard Hire 20 Employees in Q1 2016 

The Great Lakes Tow­ing Com­pa­ny and Great Lakes Ship­yard has announced the addi­tion of 20 new employ­ees in Q1 2016.  They are look­ing to hire an addi­tion­al 50+ employ­ees before the end of Q4 2016 to sup­port con­tin­ued growth dri­ven by client demand.

“We’re look­ing toward the future,” Joe Star­ck, The Company’s Pres­i­dent said. “We’re strate­gi­cal­ly focus­ing our efforts on find­ing, devel­op­ing, and train­ing a team of pro­fes­sion­als.  We want a grow­ing work­force to suc­cess­ful­ly accom­plish the con­tracts we have now and the poten­tial con­tracts we are work­ing on. This starts with hir­ing world-class tal­ent.” Recent, new hires include:

Michael Burnes

Financial Analyst & Cost Accountant

Michael Burnes has over five (5) years of pro­fes­sion­al expe­ri­ence in account­ing, busi­ness man­age­ment and finan­cial ser­vices con­sult­ing. Burnes explains that his career move was prompt­ed by “the new chal­lenge to work direct­ly for a man­u­fac­tur­er in a com­plex and unique indus­try. Ves­sel repair and con­struc­tion is an amaz­ing process from engi­neer­ing and design to pro­duc­tion and final delivery.”

Nicholas Wallinder

Health, Safety, Security & Environmental Coordinator

Nicholas Wallinder is a recent grad­u­ate of the State Uni­ver­si­ty of New York (SUNY) Mar­itime Col­lege. Wallinder grad­u­at­ed with a degree in Naval Archi­tec­ture and a USCG 3^rd Mates license. “My edu­ca­tion at SUNY and inter­est in mar­itime has pre­pared me for this great start to my career. I enjoy work­ing close­ly with the Direc­tor of Oper­a­tions & Com­pli­ance as well as the Fleet Cap­tain and tug crews. I’m look­ing for­ward to learn­ing all I can and grow­ing with The Company.”

Christopher Swenk

Marine Traffic & Operations Assistant

Christop­er Swenk was a Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion Spe­cial­ist with the Unit­ed States Coast Guard from 1997–2002 and recent­ly returned to the mar­itime indus­try. “It’s great to be back in mar­itime. I’m real­ly enjoy­ing it and love work­ing direct­ly with the tug crews and Fleet Cap­tain and help­ing The Com­pa­ny how­ev­er I can.”

In addi­tion to these new hires, Great Lakes Ship­yard is con­tin­u­ing to expand its work­force due to the increase in new con­struc­tion projects for the Ship­yard.  Fur­ther, three interns that were hired in 2015 recent­ly com­plet­ed their intern­ship pro­gram and have returned to their aca­d­e­m­ic stud­ies at Webb Insti­tute, a lead­ing engi­neer­ing school where stu­dents are edu­cat­ed in Naval Archi­tec­ture and Marine Engi­neer­ing. We thank them for a job well done:

• Mike Imbe­si, Engi­neer Intern
• Eas­t­on Tilic­ki, Engi­neer Intern
• Mike Bhio, Engi­neer Intern

The Great Lakes Tow­ing Com­pa­ny plans to hire 50+ employ­ees before the end of Q4 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 – 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.”

The Com­pa­ny is now seek­ing can­di­dates to fill a wide range of posi­tions includ­ing Naval Archi­tects, Ship­yard Welders & Pipe Fit­ters, Project Man­agers and more.

Current Available Positions

Current Shipyard Positions Include:

• Ship­yard Welders & Pipe Fitters
• Naval Archi­tect
• Project Engi­neers
• Out­side Machinists
• Mechan­ics
• Diesel Mechan­ics
• Marine Elec­tri­cians
• Steel Fore­man
• Painters
• Pro­duc­tion Planner

Current Towing Positions Include:

• Tug Cap­tains
• Tug Engi­neers
• Senior Port Engineers
• Shore­side Mechanic

Benefits

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

To learn more, vis­it the Careers page.  Inter­est­ed can­di­dates can sub­mit their resume and/or appli­ca­tion to:

• Email: hr@thegreatlakesgroup.com
• Fax: 216–781-7472
• Mail: Attn: Human Resources Depart­ment, The Great Lakes Group, 4500 Divi­sion Avenue, Cleve­land, OH 44102