All resumes

Here you'll find resumes of specialists from the entire water industry — from able seamen and motormen to ocean-going captains, from hull fitters and welders to shipyard engineers, from yacht skippers to marina technicians. All in one list, with filters by specialty, country, city and work experience.

We don't show outdated resumes. If a specialist is actively looking for work — their resume is fresh. If they found a job and took it down — it goes to the archive and doesn't get in your way.

Who benefits from this section

First of all — employers and shipowners looking for crew and specialists:

• Shipping companies and fleet operators — for hiring command and rating personnel
• Shipyards and ship repair yards — for finding hull fitters, welders, pipefitters
• Ports and terminals — for selecting stevedores, crane operators, dispatchers
• Marinas and yacht clubs — for finding technicians and shore personnel
• Owners of private vessels and yachts — for hiring a captain, skipper, steward
• Charter and cruise companies — for selecting service personnel

If you are a specialist — this section helps you understand how the market looks: which resumes compete with yours, which specialists are in demand, what rates colleagues indicate.

Which specialists are in the database

We cover the entire industry. Here are the main resume directions:

Command and rating fleet personnel

• Captains — from tugs to cruise liners
• Chief mates and mates
• Chief engineers and engineers of all levels
• Electro-technical officers and electricians
• Boatswains, able seamen, motormen
• Cooks, stewards, fleet service personnel

Shore-based professions

• Shipyard specialists — hull fitters, pipefitters, NDT inspectors, installers
• Port workers — stevedores, crane operators, dock mechanics, dispatchers
• Technical and administrative personnel of shipping companies

Yacht segment

• Captains of private and charter yachts
• Skippers, stewards, cooks on yachts
• Technical specialists at marinas and yacht clubs

How to find a specialist

The resumes section is a tool for direct search of an employee, without middlemen. Here's how it works:

Step 1. Use filters. You can select by specialty, country, city, work experience, vessel type.

Step 2. Open the resume you're interested in. You'll see a structured card: vessel types the specialist worked on, trading region, diplomas, certificates, English level.

Step 3. Write to the specialist in chat. All correspondence is preserved — you can return to the dialogue at any time.

If the specialist fits and is ready to work — you agree directly, without commissions and agency chains.

How resumes on Steel Water differ from other platforms

On universal sites, a seafarer's resume is blurred. A specialist writes "worked on ships" — and it's unclear on which exactly. Writes "captain" — and you can't tell if it's a tug captain or a cruise liner captain.

With us, every resume has a detailed structure: vessel types, trading region, voyage duration, documents, certificates, experience, English level. Specialists fill this in themselves, because the form is designed around real industry tasks, not "stretched" from a universal template.

For you as an employer, this means one thing: less time checking candidates. Open a resume — and immediately see whether the specialist fits or not.

How companies work with the resume database

We see three scenarios that our employers use:

• Active search — you go to the section, filter by the parameters you need, find specific specialists and write to them
• Monitoring new resumes — you subscribe to updates and get notifications about new specialists in your field
• Waiting for applications — you post a vacancy, and specialists apply to it themselves, seeing it in the general list

The combination of all three approaches gives the best result: you both find specialists directly and get applications for your vacancies.

What matters for an employer when hiring

A few practical observations from the industry — not from "HR gurus", but from real scenarios:

• Check experience on specific vessel types. A bulk carrier captain and a tanker captain are different specialists.
• Look at the trading region. Experience in the Baltic and on the Northern Sea Route are different stories.
• Clarify documents and certificates. Valid or expired, Russian or international — this matters.
• Write first. Good specialists often aren't actively looking for work — they're in search of a "better offer". If you found a suitable resume — don't delay.
• Respond quickly. A specialist may receive 10 offers a day. Whoever answered first — often wins.

Where to start

If you're looking for a specialist — start with a filter by your specialty and country. If you found a suitable one — write to them directly.

If you're a specialist and want to be found — create a resume. One, but detailed. Employers come to specialists through search themselves.

If the vacancy isn't published yet but a crew is urgently needed — you can post a vacancy in parallel. The combination of "resume + vacancy" works best: you both find and get found.