How To Become A Marine Consultant: What It Is and Career Path

What is a marine consultant and how to become one

Updated January 8, 2025

2 min read

There is more than meets the eye when it comes to being a marine consultant. For example, did you know that they make an average of $35.13 an hour? That's $73,072 a year! Between 2018 and 2028, the career is expected to grow 4% and produce 300 job opportunities across the U.S.

ScoreMarine ConsultantUS Average

Salary

5.7

Avg. Salary $73,072

Avg. Salary $59,228

Stability Level

6.6

Growth Rate 4%

Growth Rate 0.3%

Diversity

7.9

Race

American Indian and Alaska Native 1.11%

Asian 7.09%

Black or African American 8.35%

Hispanic or Latino 7.47%

Unknown 3.60%

White 72.38%

Gender

female 12.12%

male 87.88%

Age - 39

Race

American Indian and Alaska Native 3.00%

Asian 7.00%

Black or African American 14.00%

Hispanic or Latino 19.00%

White 57.00%

Gender

female 47.00%

male 53.00%

Age - 39

Stress Level

6.6

Stress level is high

7.1 - high

Complexity Level

7.4

Complexity Level is challenging

7 - challenging

Work Life Balance

4.4

Work Life balance is poor

6.4 - fair

Key steps to become a marine consultant

Explore marine consultant education requirements

Most common marine consultant degrees

Bachelor's

46.9 %

Master's

26.6 %

Associate

18.8 %

Start to develop specific marine consultant skills

Skills	Percentages
Loss Control	89.84%
Autocad	10.16%

Complete relevant marine consultant training and internships

Accountants spend an average of 1-2 years on post-employment, on-the-job training. New marine consultants learn the skills and techniques required for their job and employer during this time. The chart below shows how long it takes to gain competency as a marine consultant based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data and data from real marine consultant resumes.

Research marine consultant duties and responsibilities

Manage operational incidents and changes to consistently meet SLA compliance
Develop amendment projection and confirmations user interfaces using JavaScript and XML and develop PL/SQL procedures and packages to handle business logic.
Support shipyard electrician with installation, interpretation and documentation of cabling for various electrical systems.

Apply for marine consultant jobs

Now it's time to start searching for a marine consultant job. Consider the tips below for a successful job search:

Browse job boards for relevant postings
Consult your professional network
Reach out to companies you're interested in working for directly
Watch out for job scams

How Did You Land Your First Marine Consultant Job

Hoa Nguyen

Marine Consultant

I'm Hoa, 33 years old, I come from Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia. I started my career 10 years ago when I started interning at a small ship owned by a Vietnamese ship owner. After that, I wanted to be challenged more, so I applied and worked on a Chinese ship. I had the opportunity to learn more and especially my English skills improved significantly.

In 2017, I continued to change and find opportunities at Taiyo Shangyo Trading Service Company ., Ltd - a Japanese shipowner company, and work with more foreigners, who come from the Philippines and Japan. After 5 years of working there, I decided to temporarily stop working and move to a new position at a crew management company with the position of human resources manager and crew recruitment as well as being responsible for training and interviewing candidates. It was a so special experience. While working there, I gained more experience in the recruitment field when working with many different Maining in the world such as Marlow navigation, Seacon shipping, ASL, HAISUN Shipping...

After more than 1 year, I decided to comeback to being a seafarer again and I worked on the MV Seacon Athens, a bulk carrier ship of Seacon Shipping Company.

Being a Marine consultant is a wonderful thing in my life.

How do marine consultants rate their job?

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Marine Consultant reviews

5.0

A zippia user wrote a review on Jul 2019

Pros

The challenge in the market for potential clients

Cons

The non recognition for this service by regulators.