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6 of 8

Track

Individual contributor

Family rungs priced

P1 · P2 · P3 · P4 · P5 · P6

53-0000

industrial_energy_operations

Coordinates

3 / 4 spaces

pay@2 · 2026-07

What this role is

The most senior individual-contributor authority on marine operations, setting technical direction for vessel positioning, ballast, and subsea work across the fleet. At the Principal Professional (P6) level, the role owns organization-wide architecture and the hardest problems, strategic, open-ended problems shaping the technical future, and drives organization-wide. Recognized authority; multiplies many teams.

What this level does

Participate in overall planning, coordinating and management of the personnel and activities of the entire Marine Operations section, including commercial cargo, cruise ship terminal, commercial fishing vessel and mooring facilities
Serve as principal assistant to the Director with overall accountability for managing the day-to-day operations of the entire Marine Operations Section under general direction
Develop strategies within the department to create a safety culture consistent with loss-control goals, providing leadership that sets an example reflecting the importance of safe work practices
Define organization-wide marine operating policies, standards and performance targets that shape how vessel and cargo operations are run across all facilities
Influence industry practice and represent the organization on regulatory, port-authority and marine-community matters as a recognized authority

Knowledge applied: Applies principal-level, field-shaping mastery to define organization-wide marine operating policy, safety culture and performance standards across all facility types.
Complexity & problem solving: Provides visionary, field-defining problem-solving on section-wide operations spanning commercial cargo, cruise, fishing and mooring facilities; operates with full strategic independence under general direction of the Director.
Collaboration & interaction: Influences the organization and wider marine industry as a recognized authority; serves as principal deputy to the Director and mentors senior professionals.
Typical experience: 15+ years; principal marine operations expert with a track record of leadership across the marine community and regulatory bodies.

Skills at this level

Vessel Scheduling and Movement Coordination: — Plans and directs vessel movements, personnel movements and harbour activities across ports, sequencing arrivals, berthing and departures to achieve safe, timely and cost-effective execution.
Cargo Handling and Marine Logistics: — Coordinates loading, unloading and transit of cargo, aligning schedules and resources so shipments are delivered on time while resolving manifest and damage-reporting discrepancies.
USCG Inspection and Certification Management: — Tracks and schedules statutory vessel inspections and certification renewals with the USCG, notifying the Director, Port Captain and Chief Port Engineer 60 days ahead and managing the renewal cycle to keep vessels compliant.
Marine Fleet Maintenance Oversight: — Oversees the maintenance, repair and efficient operation of the marine fleet — including shipboard equipment such as pumps, hydraulics, generators, steering gears and anchor windlass — to optimize vessel performance within safety limits.
Vessel Operating Cost Budgeting: — Analyzes costs of vessel and cargo operations across ports and interfaces with the Engineering Department to prepare and monitor the annual Vessel Operating Cost budget, prioritizing contracted-services and capital-project expenditures.
Maritime Regulatory and Safety Compliance: — Applies federal and state vessel operating rules, safety protocols and environmental regulations to marine operations, and builds safety culture consistent with loss-control goals.
Marine Vendor and Agency Relations: — Handles clients diplomatically and networks with vendors, operators, port authorities and agencies in the marine community to secure services and resolve operational issues.
Marine Navigation and Communication Systems: — Uses modern marine navigation and communication systems to monitor vessel position, coordinate movements and maintain contact across shipboard and shoreside operations.
Shipyard Period Operational Support: — Provides operational representation and field support during scheduled vessel shipyard periods, coordinating repair scope, timelines and re-entry into service across ports of call.
Marine Operations Strategic Planning: — Sets policy, performance targets and long-range plans for a marine operations section spanning commercial cargo, cruise, fishing-vessel and mooring facilities, aligning personnel and activities to organizational objectives.

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Pay across the ladder

Marine Operations — median with , by . Real canon data.

National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so dollar levels are not function-adjusted (level-over-level % is unaffected).

Pay figures are modeled estimates from our market equation — level-differentiated, with honest-wide bands. They refresh as new leveling evidence lands; treat per-role dollars as directional.

Demand — is the field growing, or just turning over?

SOC 53-0000 · national

Employment growth 2019–2024, BLS OEWSobserved

+2.0%Ship Engineers · United States

8,410 → 8,580 jobs

1,100 openings / year, split into:

replacement / exits 1,086

Growth — new jobs (1%)Exits — backfill (99%)

1% of hiring here is genuine expansion; the rest backfills people who move on.

Projected growth 2024–34 expanding: +1.6%
Growth share of hiring: 1%
Exit / retention pressure high: 99%
Openings / year: 1,100

Two quantities, kept apart: observed = employment growth differenced from two BLS OEWS vintages (what already happened); projected = BLS Employment Projections 2024–34, openings decomposed into growth + exits (growth derived from projected employment change). Neither is a pay figure.

Where this role sits — growth vs. pay

level P6 held

Demand axis is projected growth (not raw openings — that just measures churn). A curated, de-duplicated set of recognizable occupations held at this level; this role is highlighted.

Where it pays — by metro

OEWS metro median

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$324k

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$290k

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$269k

Boulder, CO$265k

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$265k

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$254k

Lexington Park, MD$247k

Trenton-Princeton, NJ$246k

Pay only — metro-level demand isn't in public data (it needs job postings). National median $194k; the demand-cube initiative will add growth-by-metro.

What changes across the ladder

Level-distinction canon isn't available for the adjacent levels of this profile yet.

Level differentiators

What separates P6 (P6 — Principal Professional) from the levels around it — this level only. Every word is real canon for this profile.

Scope: Organization-wide architecture and the hardest problems
Autonomy: Defines direction; minimal oversight
Complexity: Strategic, open-ended problems shaping the technical future
Impact: Organization-wide
Decision rights: Sets technical strategy for a major area
Leadership: Recognized authority; multiplies many teams

Full level-by-level matrix (side by side across the ladder) lives on the Ladder drill-down — not here.

Promotion

P6is the top of this family's ladder — progression from here is a lattice move (see adjacent roles below), not a rung.

Performance criteria for this profile render in the assessment kit →

People also watch

Nearest coordinate neighbors — same , same level. Each row's (confident / review / no match) comes from its — computed, not curated.

Profile	Key	Median	Δ structural
Senior Director of Marine Operations	jf_marine_operations::M6	$241,631†	confident0.06
Marine Operations Expert	jf_marine_operations::P5	$138,423†	confident0.06
Director of Marine Operations	jf_marine_operations::M5	$188,371†	confident0.12
Lead Marine Operations Specialist	jf_marine_operations::S5	$60,631†	confident0.12

†National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so the dollar level is not function-adjusted.

Capability cluster

O*NET 53-5031

Core to this role. Click any element with an ⓘ for its O*NET definition. A job-specific capability model (SkillFrame) will sharpen this and add worked examples.

The Job Swatch

P6

jf_marine_operations::P6

Principal Marine Operations Engineer

Marine Operations

The swatch is JobFrame's core primitive: a hueset deterministically by the role's superfunction, the profileKey as its color code, the level ladder, and a content fingerprint. Two swatches that look alike are alike.

Because every role carries computable coordinates, similarity, leveling, and pricing become measurable instead of arguable— the whole point of "Pantone for jobs."

Structural

structural@1

Where it sits— position in the work taxonomy + level (weighted Gower, level > function > focus).

Track: P
Superfunction: industrial_energy_operations
Function: field_operations
Family: marine_operations
Universal level: 6 / 8

Content

content@2

What it's about— a fingerprint over the role's tasks & capabilities.

Two roles can sit far apart structurally yet be close in content — that gap is itself a signal.

3-state matching

How any two swatches compare — a real distance in coordinate space, resolved to a calibrated verdict (never a fake "94% match").

Battery Storage Operations · P6review0.17

Drilling Operations · P6review0.17

Field Maintenance · P6review0.17

Field Measurement · P6review0.17

Mining Operations · P6review0.17

Field Operations · P6review0.17

Editions — frozen & versioned

structural@1live

Released 2026-06-17

content@2live

Released 2026-07-28

pay@2live

Released 2026-07-02

semantic@1live

Released 2026-07-02

Coordinates belong to a frozen, versioned edition — a coordinate computed today still means the same thing next quarter. Re-fitting issues a new edition, so comparisons are never silently redefined.

How to read this profile

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Where every number comes from

What	Source & method	Edition	State
Median pay + range	JobFrame pay equation (function base × family multiplier × level × focus differential)	pay@2	computed
Pay across the ladder	Same equation applied at each universal level	pay@2	computed
Demand — growth & openings	BLS Employment Projections; openings decomposed into growth + exits	EP 2024–34	projected
Pay by metro	BLS OEWS metropolitan medians	OEWS 2024	observed
Level distinctions	JobFrame universal-level canon (scope · autonomy · complexity · impact · decision rights · leadership)	canon	canon
Capability cluster	O*NET Knowledge / Skills / Abilities	O*NET 53-5031	computed
Coordinates	JobFrame coordinate system — structural (weighted Gower) + content fingerprint	structural@1 · content@2 · pay@2 · semantic@1	computed
Related roles	Nearest neighbors in the structural coordinate space	structural@1	computed

The principles behind the numbers

Ranges, not false precision

Pay is P10 · median · P90, never a single misleading number.

Three honest states, never a fake %

Role matches resolve to confident / review / no-match — a calibrated verdict, not a made-up percentage.

Provenance on every value

Each number carries whether it's observed, computed, projected, or canon — so you always know how much to lean on it.

Gaps shown as gaps

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Frozen, versioned editions

Pay and coordinate editions are pinned, so a comparison you make today still means the same thing next quarter.

Privacy by min-N

Any aggregate over people is suppressed below a minimum count, so no individual is identifiable.

Freshness

As of2026-07-30Editioncanon-v2@2.1.0-completeSourcecanon-v2 cell + salary-benchmark (model)