We are seeking new members for the Operations Team in Lake Hopatcong, NJ. At Bridge Marina you will enjoy the outdoors, working with boats on the water, helping friendly guests and prospects who are generally happy to see you. Our team is welcoming, engaged, dependable, safety conscious and customer focused, and we are seeking new teammates who fit in this culture. The efforts and excitement changes with the seasons keeping work interesting and energizing. You will be in an active marina environment, with boats and boaters on a regular basis. Your role will help and support a friendly roster of boaters’ looking for a safe and enjoyable time on the water. You will be caring for a well-maintained fleet and marina. You will be learning from others and performing on a team daily. You will receive significant support, as well as training in our processes, marina systems, boat handling skills, customer service and more. Working in a marina, particularly at Bridge Marina, is likely unlike other roles and businesses. You will gain access to fun perks like ‘staff events on the water’, other boating opportunities, incentives as well as rewarding times on and around the water working with a great team.
Some responsibilities are:

• Helping guests come and go from the marina by land or by water by carrying items, covering boats, landing boats, and similar.
• Communicating with guests and teammates to determine needs and then acting to support them.
• Basic boat care such as covering, cleaning, vacuuming, polishing, relocating, preparation for day or season, etc.
• General tasks and checklists to ensure boats and marina are maintained, clean and safe.
• Tasks such as checking boats for condition and equipment, support of boat service, pumping gas, working with a register, boat recommission and decommissioning, and maintaining the facility.
• For advanced applicants, or tasks you will learn as you advance:
  • Operating boats in the marina or elsewhere on the water body.
  • Providing orientations for boaters.
  • Operating marina vehicles, tractors and trailers or performing mechanical tasks.
  • Guest sales and or advanced guest development
  • Overseeing other teammates or projects, leading shifts, and management of day to day.

Some skills and characteristics for this role are:

• Ability and interest to be welcoming, helpful and courteous with guests and teammates.
• Positive and supportive outlook.
• A strong work ethic, interest in working.
• Responsible, accountable, safety minded.
• Accountability working independently.
• Teamwork experience or skills
• Boating experience or similar

Requirements

• An interest and desire to work on the water with boats and boaters.
• Customer service experience or similar
• Boating Certificate or equivalent and 1-year boating experience
• Valid and clean automobile driver’s license.
• Ability to swim.
• Ability to pass a pre-employment background/drug screen.

Bridge Marina core competencies are the skills and capabilities that give Bridge Marina its advantage. As a teammate you will be expected to have knowledge and skill in each of our core competencies.

• Workplace Safety: Understand the risks that comes with the environment and take the proper and proactive steps necessary to ensure safety.
• Guest Focus: Appreciates our guests, their situations, perceptions, desires, and expectations and attends to guest needs in effort to build enduring relationships with the highest level of satisfaction.
• Personal Leadership: Takes responsibility for actions, behaviors, and commitments. Seeks to expand own skills and strengths. Develops and uses positive traits to guide the direction of own efforts.
• Dependability: The quality of being trustworthy and reliable.
• Initiative: The ability to assess issues and make effective solutions independently.
• Teamwork: A collaborative way of working with others to achieve a shared goal.

This position is in Lake Hopatcong, NJ. The role is primarily outdoors in the marina, on boats and docks, and on the water, however, you may find yourself occasionally working inside as well. We are seeking teammates who can work weekends and holidays as that is the nature of this work. We are seeking both part-time and full-time seasonal, and full-time, year-round applicants. The hourly wage for this role is $15-$18 per hour plus gratuities, or for full-time year-round teammates an equivalent annual compensation of $31,000-$37,000 per year plus incentives. Advancement and increases are available and are encouraged to competent teammates. Additional seasonal ‘Retention Incentives’ may range up to $1,000 or more! For qualified team members, we provide health care benefits, retirement plan with company contribution, sick time, and paid vacation. Bridge Marina does more than just boats; it’s a place where people come to learn to boat, to get on the water and to enjoy all the fun, entertainment and exploration boating can offer. We seek teammates who would enjoy working on and around the water, working with boats and boaters, and being around fun and energizing people. Each team member at Bridge Marina brings skills and passion to a fun, challenging and ever-changing environment on the water.

Bridge Marina inspires boaters of all abilities to get on the water. You can feel the energy and enthusiasm when you step onto our docks on a sunny summer afternoon. We have a team of diverse hospitality focused people who provide boat service, boat sales, boating club, boat training, boat rentals, slip services and more in Lake Hopatcong and Sandy Hook New Jersey. Our team and company provides one of the most unique and inspiring boating experiences in the industry.

Learn more about us online at www.bridgemarina.com or on Facebook, Instagram or TikTok @brigemarina. We look forward to connecting with you.