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Tugboat Captain

McMillen Inc.
Barling, AR Full Time
POSTED ON 7/6/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/30/2026


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Tugboat Captain

McMillen, Inc. is seeking a Tugboat Captain for a project in Barling, AR. All Construction Division offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check and drug screen. In accordance with client requirements, security clearance is required and is determined based on background check results

Responsibilities: includes the following, other duties may be assigned.

  • Operates and provides maintenance and upkeep of the boat on which they are assigned
  • Operates and navigates boat to and from designated areas
  • Transports crew and materials when necessary
  • Maintains daily logs, ledgers, record books as necessary
  • Responsible for practicing safe work standards
  • Must be able to tolerate vibrations, heat, confined spaces, and high noise levels

Qualifications:

  • Pass a drug test and background check
  • Valid driver's license
  • Reliable transportation to and from work

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk, or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit, climb, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, crawl, kneel, bend, and reach with hands and arms above their shoulders. The employee must regularly lift and/or move 50 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.

Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stopping, and handling of materials.

Ability to work on feet and/or standing 8-10 hours each day, maintain balance while walking on 12-24" wide steel beams.

Ability to work in all-weather environments including heat, cold, dusty and dirty work.

Must have a sense of balance and understanding, how to work on the water out of a boat.

Who We Are: McMillen, Inc. (McMillen) is an engineering, environmental, and construction firm providing scalable, multi-disciplinary capabilities. We are a design and build firm providing clients with balanced perspective and realistic solutions. With experts in the United States, Canada, Australia, and France, our staff bring best practices from the water resources, energy, dams, infrastructure, fisheries, aquaculture, and restricted access markets.

We balance technical precision with collaborative delivery throughout all project phases. We have the resources and expertise to contribute to a project at the feasibility and planning stage, navigate the regulatory and permitting requirements, develop detailed designs, self-perform construction, and participate in startup, testing, and commissioning. We offer strategic planning, technical expertise, comprehensive project management, and integration of multi-disciplinary studies for traditional and alternative project delivery methods.

We want our employees to make a career doing what they love to do. We aren't looking for the complacent or the comfortable. We are looking for the highly technical, the creators, the manic obsessives, the outliers who know being the best is a journey, not a finish line. We support our employees' efforts to stay on the cutting edge of technology while fostering a great work-life balance.

EEO: McMillen, Inc. is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and will make all employment related decisions without race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Visa sponsorship, including renewal during employment, will not be provided for this position.

No recruiters, please.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans.
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McMillen Jacobs Associates is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and will make all employment related decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.


 

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