Career Training for Ports and Marinas
Online training for employees in ports, marinas, and harbors
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Improve your skills in the comfort of your
own community
No excessive travel costs - Approximately 15-20 hours, with a 3 month time period to complete work
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Cost is $150 per course
(Registration form available for download at bottom of this page)
What you will need to take the course:
- a computer with internet access
- either speakers or headphones
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an e-mail address that is your own, not shared
(We can help you with this if necessary)
Courses Available | Certificates Available | How to Register
Courses Available:
Customer Service for Ports & Marinas - New!
If you work at a harbor or marina, customers are the reason for your business. Great customer service skills strengthen your ability to communicate successfully with harbor customers, local, state, and national agencies doing business with your harbor, as well as other stakeholders interested in your harbor’s activities. This course will improve your customer service skills and help you grow your customer base. Students will learn proven techniques to ascertain what customers want and need so that harbor staff can fine tune operations to meet these expectations. The course highlights ways to know what your competition is doing and methods to stay abreast of industry standards.
Fire Safety for Ports & Marinas - New!
This course provides fire prevention and fire fighting training and skills development for anyone who works at a harbor or marina. While not a substitute for live practice drills, it provides valuable written information on fire theory, practice scenarios, “what if” situations to think about and react to, and quizzes to check your understanding. The course was designed to increase awareness of possible fire hazards as well as provide employees effective measures to prevent and fight fire in the harbor. The course also stresses the importance of policy and planning, providing actual examples. Employees who complete this course will also gain valuable insight into the complex and serious nature of unified fire response.
Facility Safety
Facility Safety is a course designed to teach marina employees about the major safety issues they will deal with on a day-to-day basis in the harbor. The course was designed not only to make employees aware of hazards, but to give them the necessary information to eliminate hazards in the harbors and to protect themselves, other employees and the public. Employees who complete this course will gain valuable information for their own safety on the job, and will be able to educate the public and help keep others safe as well.
Oil Spills: Prevention, Preparedness and Response
This course focuses on the nature of oil spills and their consequent environmental and economic impacts. It describes the causes and sources of spills and provides information to assist in developing and applying spill prevention strategies. Applicable laws and regulations related to the unlawful release of oil products and the necessary preparedness and spill response measures to mitigate the effects of these spills are also covered. Completion of this course will equip employees and others to assess the potential for oil spills, reduce the risks of discharges from boats, marinas and other shoreside sources and protect valuable marine resources.
Marine Structures and Materials
Effective operation and maintenance of harbors and marinas is dependent on employees having a solid understanding of the marine infrastructure installed at their workplace. This course will cover major marine structures and building materials found in a harbor or small port. Marine structures are built of materials designed to withstand use in a marine environment. Understanding the advantages and disadvantages inherent in using each marine building material will help harbor employees make good choices in their maintenance activities.
Certificates Available:
Pacific Coast Congress of Harbormasters and Port Managers (PCC) Certificate Program
PCC will recognize students who successfully complete a specified number of courses with a certificate of accomplishment. The courses must be completed through the University of Alaska Southeast Sitka, Career Training for Ports and Marinas program. The intent of this PCC certification is to recognize completion of specific UAS courses that introduce students to marina operations and that enhance the capabilities and value of current and prospective marina and harbor employees. This PCC certificate acknowledges that the student has demonstrated the motivation, aptitude and commitment to fulfill UAS course requirements and has acquired a greater understanding of our industry and some of the skills required to be successful within a number of port and marina occupations. Initially, PCC will issue a Basic Certificate of Accomplishment for completing 3 available UAS courses (Facility Safety, Marine Structures and Materials, and Oil Spills). As additional courses are offered, more advanced PCC recognition certificates will be awarded. Students fulfilling the requirements for the Basic PCC Certificate will be able apply these completed courses to future PCC certificates, as additional UAS courses are offered.
To secure your PCC certificate, you must complete the required number of courses and have your official UAS transcript sent to:
Executive Secretary
Pacific Coast Congress of Harbormasters and Port Mangers
120 State Avenue
PMB 231
Olympia, WA 98501
If you have any questions regarding the PCC Certificate Program, send inquires to the above address or to: cmaynard3@wildblue.net
PCC website: www.pccharbormasters.org
How to Register:
- Use the course names listed above
- Call 1-800-478-6653 and ask for extension 7778 (Mary) or 9443 (Marian) or call direct 907-747-7778 (Mary) or 907-747-9443 (Marian)
- Provide registration and payment information (payment can be made by credit card, check or purchase order)
- Log-on information will be sent to you shortly after registering
- Registration and payment can also be mailed to:
Mary Purvis
UAS Sitka Campus
1332 Seward Avenue
Sitka, Alaska 99835
Partnership of University of Alaska Southeast, Pacific Coast Congress of Harbormasters and Port Managers, Alaska Association of Harbormasters and Port Administrators and the Harbour Authority Association of British Columbia
Career Training for Ports and Marinas brochure (347 KB)
Registration Form (24 KB)
NOTE: Please provide your harbor name on the registration form.
Please print form and mail it, with your payment, to Mary Purvis at the address above.