The Interview:  (ask your host these questions)

                        Name of your host: Igor Shlyk         Relationship to you: Father                          

What is your job title?                                                                                                         Marine Technical Superintendent

  What is your job description?                                                                                               Planning and executing maintenance and repairs of marine equipment.

   What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job?                                                        Supervises contractors, subcontractors, ship crew. Helps solve key problems, manages the ship and ships problems. Ensure to assist everyone to run smoothly and effectively, with managing all the big and key operations by informing industrial practices. Ensures that all marine equipment operates in the most cost-effective manner.

  What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:    

a)  training? Marine advanced first aid, marine emergency duties training such as advanced firefighting, basic survival at sea, advanced ship management, project management, procurement, leadership, incidences investigations.

b)  education? You have to complete Marine college and acquire a bacheral degree in marine engineering.

  c)  experience? 15 years deep sea as a marine engineer, 8 years supervisory roles such as superintendent and project manager.

d)  skills and attributes (personal qualities)? Strong marine engineering skills, strong leadership skills, self-starter, proactive, loyal, trustworthy, independent, truthful, dependable, honest, intelligent, sincere.

What are some of the things you like about the job?                                                                                Very dynamic and high paced environment, interaction with multiple other peoples ( new peoples), decision making.

    What are some of the things you dislike about this job?                                                                         Sometimes on your own time, you can get emergency phone calls, emails, last-minute ship duties. Having to work out of town, travels away from home and family.

How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so?                                                 Most likely new equipment and technology will make it work easier.

Other question (s):                                                                                                                                      What do you believe is the most important skill to have as a marine superintendent?

  Being able to communicate and cooperate with other people (people skills).

 

Student Reflections:

Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific):                                                                  a) A very communicative environment, lots of talking (people environment not a self workspace).                                                                                                                                                                                 b) You’re always on the look (on your toes), lots going on, always ready, lots of adrenaline.                                                                                                                                                                     c) A sort of education, your with people who know what they are doing, no one out of the blue.

Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific):                                                                 a) Lots of time on a computer or a device, emails, phone calls.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      b) Not always having something to do (as what my dad is), sometimes gets dull, boring.                                                                                                                                                                                  c) Very dirty environment, close get oily, greasy, rusty, disgusting.

Is this job for you?  Why or why not?

I feel like working on the ship as an engineer or as a welder could be for me, but not being a marine superintendent. Because my dad answers call’s, emails and send out documents all day long. Most of the time he’s in his office, however, he is the superintendent so he does go and check to see that everyone is working, I feel that that isn’t for me because I was something exciting, something to get my hands dirty in other than grease and dirt and oil.

Explain the value of the TOKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post-secondary (after high school) plans (education, training, travel, work?).

I understood that I need to be in an environment where I have people to talk to and where there’s a lot of stuff going on so at the end of the day I can say I did that or I didn’t sit in an office all day texting, emailing, calling people about problems going  on. I believe that I want to become a sergeant at a hospital one day! I’m not sure of what department or what as college/university I will attend, what education I might get, all I know is I am considering being a sergeant, because there can be a code blue at any moment (you have to stay on your toes) and there are lots of people to talk to and lots of communication going on at  a hospital. You get your hands dirty (not with dirt or oil), you aren’t just standing around, you’re trying to save a life or run from one side to the other, fly to get an organ for a transplant your always on the move on the go ready. Educationally speaking you have to have a lot of different degrees to become a sergeant, each department with its own needs.