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Moran Towing

One of the last of a dying breed. This company will take care of you and your family. If a hurricane hits your area, you'll be at work ensuring the safety of a port and the ships in it, but they'll relocate all employee family members to hotels a safe distance away. They load trailers with gear and drive to disaster zones even if they don't have employees in the area, simply because they have the resources to do so. The pay is average, but the benefits are very good. Moran represents stability and core values. When guys in the Gulf are getting hired and fired on the whims of oil market price fluctuations, Moran holds onto its guys (and girls) for a lifetime. Hard work for sure; I worked 90-100 hour weeks regularly, but it is good work and generally with good people. I'm not a pro-company guy, but this company has your back and I respect that. Not many places do these days.

I have only been here for 2 weeks in the Baltimore location as a dispatcher. In all honesty it's the best job I've ever had. I came from a totally different industry as a dispatcher so everybody here is willing to teach me and work with me period and then once you are fully trained the salary goes up. A few of the other dispatchers we're not from the maritime industry and I'm able to gauge where I am at by where they were at when they learned. I know I haven't been here really long but all in all everyone was welcoming and it's like one big family. When people call the office and find out I am training they are willing to teach me over the phone. When people come into the office and see a new face they make a point to introduce themselves

Working at Moran was an absolute pleasure.  The I.T. department was full of very talented and motivated people.  It was a very proactive environment that promoted learned and rewarded hard work.

I learned a lot during my time at the company.  Moran Towing knew the importance of having a sophisticated and up to date infrastructure and they were not afraid of spending money on hardware or software that would improve their systems.  Because of this I was able to gain a lot of experience on a number of different high end solutions that I would normally not be able to learn.

This was a fantastic company to work for and they always took care of their employees.  During my time with Moran Towing I learned that working  from the ground up really allows you to become a model employee.  I started out as a deckhand on the tug boat where i spent a lot of time away from home.  I quickly moved up the ranks and passed all coast guard tests which allowed me to obtain a captains licenses.  Moran Towing invested a lot of time and money in their employees to make sure they were ready for advancement.

Most days didn't end.  I was always checking on the status of all aspects of our infrastructure.  I was on call indefinitely.  The people that work there are amazing and I was very sad when we had to part ways.

Moran is one of the last good tugboat companies remaining. There are no blocked paths to upper management, and they are more than willing to look out for their employees. The Vice President of the NY/NJ Division has built a decades long reputation as looking out for "his guys". If I had to write anything negative about the company, its more to do with the crews keeping a maritime union that does nothing for you except charge extra high dues and you get nothing in return. 

Employees who work tugboat jobs are treated like expendable commodities at Moran Philadelphia. Management puts on smiley face when they need you for something.  Once the need is over with you are immediately forgotten and expendable.
Management treats employees in other ports better with annual leave and holiday leave while Philadelphia employees get nothing.  

Management will absolutely lowball Deckhands when it comes to pay and expects you to do more for less. Most of the crew members are decent in your face, but will throw you under the bus to cover their tracks and wonder why their retention rate sucks.

It was hectic to balance life with one week working out of town and another week in with my family. The only parts about this job that really upset me is that when I was injured, the doctors in contract with the company only cared about if I was drinking and on drugs instead of my health after the accident, and also that when they fired me after said incident, they didn't call me, but instead had me drive 200 miles one way just to drive back.

You live on the tugboat for a typical hitch of 7 days, working 12 hour watches. While physical labor is required, there is also quite a bit of down time during a normal watch. Having an entire week off from work is a big plus. Your experience on the boat can vary depending on the crew you work with. While many of the crew mates can be easy to get along with, there is a serious lack of leadership capability among the captains.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Deckhand 27 salaries reported	$24.96 per hour
Engineer 14 salaries reported	$42.04 per hour
Cadet 13 salaries reported	$20.00 per hour
Captain 4 salaries reported	$45.60 per hour
Dispatcher 2 salaries reported	$55,250 per year

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