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Edison Chouest Offshore

Maintaining the accommodation of  the ship (cabins,laundry and messroom.)Maintain clean and tidy in crew and diver's launches in entired accommodation area as well,set up the  tables and meals service(breakfast,lunch and dinner),encharged with supply and inventory .Organize station,ensure that guest requests, beverages, condiments etc. are promptly fulfilled.Open and serve wine,water and champagne. Prepare the cocktails.Prepares a good mise-en-place to ensure that  my station is ready when guests arrive.Provides personalized service (remembers guests names and preferences). 
         Assists guest in ordering by describing the menu. Takes guest orders, obtains orders from the galley and ensures prompt delivery to guest. Maintain clean and in order in dinning room,set up and meals service(breakfast,lunch and dinner),ready to pull the chair for the ladies when guest arrive and depart.Serve beverages.Silver service and polish. Responsible for a station of 8-12  stateroom.Provide personal assistance to guests and aim to exceed their expectations.In ambarcation day escort guests to their stateroom,carry their hand baggage and explain stateroom amenities and layout.On the first evening of the cruise ,after greeting my guests on the station explain the service I will provide including my duty hours.Take care of guests laundry requests,taking it to and from the laundry and presents laundry bill to the guests.Striping and recovering of beds as per schedule and standards,change towels twice daily and replenish bathroom supplies.Pick up glasses,china,cutlery,,tray’s,etc. when left in staterooms by guest’s.Bring these to designated washing facilities area.Empty wastebaskets ,vacuum and scrub floors,clean shower,sinks and toilet boils.Clean the walls,ceiling and windows,including mirrors,draperies,carpets and room accessories,polish the brass and other metals. general cleaning in all the guests cabins,helping chief stewardess to make the necessary list for guests and crew and making the inventory,receive the provisions when the chief stewardess is busy.making laundry service(washing & ironing) when was necessary.Report for duty on assigned times following my superiors instructions in line with the  Company’s Rules and Regulations. Report and folow up all defective equipments,fixtures and supplies.

Worked there for over 11 years. Met some great, talented and hard-working individuals. Also, met many individuals (this is where the expression boat trash comes from) who would have been fired  if they were working anywhere else, but not at ECO. The reason being is that management does not want to get rid of anyone because it's too much work to hire replacements. So they just put them on another boat and let that Captain and crew suffer. 
There is a huge disconnect between the mariners and office personnel. Managers constantly roll the dice with safety to save a buck and their secretaries, aka coordinators, don't have a clue what to do, how to act,or how to communicate because they've never worked offshore a day in their lives nor have they ever had any management experience or training. Being a Captain used to be a position that came with respect and when I say Captain, I mean Captain. Not Second, Third, or Fourth Captain. On the Chouest vessels you'll have 3 - 5 or more Captains, but no Mates. This is because the overpaid Mates who just sit in the wheelhouse reading romance novels while everyone else works have such esteem issues they can't be insulted by such terms. The company grew huge and unfortunately, a lot of bad things come with that. There is no skill assessment system whatsoever and therefore incompetence is rampant. Lead Captains are chosen strictly based on convenience of scheduling and not actual job performance skills which can and does prove quite dangerous at ECO. Unfortunately, people have died.

I worked on the deck for a few months, then moved into the engine room for two years.

Almost all of the officers (captains and engineers) were great to work with, professional, and always willing to help a guy like me out, who had little to no experience. They value hard work and a willingness to learn. I only worked with maybe one captain and one engineer that I truly couldn't get along with.

Management at the office are good to work with, as long as you remain professional and cooperate with them. I had a death in the family, and was able to leave my month's shift a couple of days afterwards in order to be at the funeral.

Some of the other deck hands and wipers that I worked with could be a pain in the neck, and make the job harder than it should be. But this goes with almost all jobs anyway. You have to learn how to adapt to the workplace culture.

The benefits are fantastic, and the pay is competitive with other offshore gulf companies.

Working offshore ultimately wasn't for me, because you are away from home for so long. It felt like the 2 1/2 years I worked there went by in a flash, and now everything is different in my home town. 

It's a great job for a young person, but me being in my 30s, I desired to stay home with my family more than go out on the water. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Excellent professional company high level of proactivity performance and excellent safety records excellent company work salary family employees, it's an adventure and a dream job. The best company in the Maritime Offshore boat & ship work utility transport and assist,  in the industry. My all time favorite career.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Going home at the end of your hitch and thinking about the logistics and soon return because you don't want to miss out on all the fun at work at Sea.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very organized, clean, professional, prompt. Great work environment comfortable friendly easy to get along with crew and work with.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Every day brings variable simulator and unique routines throughout the week day by day going out to the oil rigs coming back to the piers the docks bringing back and forth personnel equipment tools water food oil fuel drill bits propellers things like that a variety of various locations in the Gulf of Mexico and going to a variety of oil rigs and ports. Working with the Captain and the Engineer and other shipmates to get stuff done and things. : )

Not all vessels are the same. Every crew has their own dynamic, and interact with each other differently. When I was aboard the vessel I spent the most time on, we had a fantastic crew. Comradery and esprit de corps was second to none. We worked, trained, celebrated, and strove for excellence together as one cohesive team. Our captain and chief engineer had a clear vision for the vessel, and led the way in an inspiring way that I had never experienced before on any other vessel, or in any other job I've ever had. Working in the engineering department, our team was smaller than the other departments, but we had more work to do. The bridge team knew that we were working extremely hard to reach certain milestones, and they would do what they could to help us out, even coming down to lend a hand themselves when they were caught up on their duties. If that doesn't tell you how much we worked together as a team, then nothing will.

In a typical work day you would wake up for watch at either midnight, noon, or 0600 hrs. A day's work depends on your position on the vessel. A deckhand would spend the day cleaning the vessel, chipping rust, painting, or even loading the vessel with cargo. Engineers would keep the vessel running by checking fluids, changing oil in engines, or even repairing bearings or pumps. The bridge personnel will update charts, maneuver the vessel around port, communicate with dispatch, and liason between dispatch and coordinator. The culture is very diversed due to the fact that people are hired from everywhere in the world. Also, some of the vessels work in different countries. The hardest part of the job is probably being anyway from home and your family for such long periods of time. The most enjoyable part of the job is probably meeting such a diverse group of people and seeing different cultures.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Edison Chouest Offshore LLC pride's itself on maintaining a totally professional, dedicated, and responsible workforce.  They will assist you in any way possible to make sure that you succeed in your offshore endeavors.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Probably being away from family when you're completing you offshore duty rotation at sea.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment is strictly professional and attentive to the task at hand, while promoting safety for the crew and all those who are involved.  The culture is diversified, and the learning experience is totally rewarding!!

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Meals are provided 3 times a day.  Work assignments are delegated by the Master Captain and over seen by the Mate and Lead Deckhand.  The Chief Engineer also assigns his or her duties to be performed in the engineering department.

The chouest company is all about chouest and family making more money for themselves. Very unhealthy work environment in port Fourchon LA. At their shipyards in LA, they use undocumented immigrant to build their vessels. Overall it a good place to make money. After all Chouest is an oil field company like any other oil and gas company. The oil field and merchant marine vessel is culture of its own that is different from regular 8am to 5pm working environment. The management and office workers are Ok, but the character of people on the vessels. I think the US Coast Guard need to really look into these people before giving them license to work on vessel, I think some of them have forged documents and licenses. if you work for chouest or other companies in oversea oil field like brazil, Trinidad and other countries. The different is clear.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Very good company with a lots of opportunities 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Some times missing home that's all I don't let any thing stress me up at work due to my safety I stay forcurs the go to the gym after 12 hrs of work then I will be good 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work environment is ok with me I used to work in the gulf of Mexico I worm hot and drink a lots of water but now I work in Valdez Alaska is cooled but after while you're body will get to used at it plus engine room is hot so no issues 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Most of the time I work at night 🌙 from midnight to noon and I will be sleeping during the day pretty much go to bad around 3 pm

Never was a great place to work, but the salary was nice. When I first started with ECO, I was hoping for a professional company that would take care of their employees, but I later found out this would not be true. This could be a great place to work if they really made some major changes to the management team, a lot of the local employment pool. Having said that, I really admire their stance of employing and taking care of the community, but they are necessarily the best qualified. They are given jobs because of families within the company; even when these employees are not qualified for the position, steal from the company, they cost the company thousand, even when management knows they are worthless! They are still employed...

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