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Marine Surveyors

ANZSCO ID 231215

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Overview

Snapshot

Employed
460
Future Growth
N/A
Weekly Earnings
N/A
Full-Time Share
82%
Female Share
2%
Average age
51
About this data

Summary

Marine Surveyors survey machines and hulls of ships to ensure they are constructed, equipped and maintained according to safety standards, rules and regulations laid down by marine authorities.

Tasks

  • Examines and approves design plans of hulls and equipment such as main propulsion engines, auxiliary boilers and turbines, electrical power generating plant, refrigeration and air-conditioning plant and pumping systems.

  • Conducts periodic surveys throughout a ship's life to ensure standards are maintained.

Characteristics

Job Type
Professionals
Skill Level
High skill
ANZSCO Occupation group
2312 Marine Transport Professionals
Unemployment Rate
n/a
Industries
Pathway(s)
  • University
  • Vocational Education and Training (VET)
Interests
  • Practical
  • Analytical
Physical Demand
  • Light
  • Medium

Outlook

Employment Outlook

JSA produces employment projections to show where likely future job opportunities may be. Employment projections data are only produced for occupations at the broad four digit Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO) level. While data are not available for this occupation, projections data are available for the parent occupation, Marine Transport Professionals, under the outlook section.

Earnings and hours

Working arrangements

  • Around 82% of people employed as Marine Surveyors work full-time hours, in all their jobs combined. This is 16 percentage points above the all jobs average (66%).

    Full-time workers work an average of 45 hours per week in their main job. This is similar to the all jobs average (44 hours per week).

    Sources:Full-time share and full-time hours: ABS, 2016 Census, customised report. Compared to the all jobs average.

Industries

Main industries

1
Professional, Scientific and Technical Services
56.6%
2
Public Administration and Safety
17.9%
3
Transport, Postal and Warehousing
11.1%
4
Manufacturing
3.7%
5
Other industries
5.9%

Regions

Employment across Australia

NSW

19.6% All occupations: 31.6%

VIC

15.6% All occupations: 25.6%

QLD

26.4% All occupations: 20.0%

SA

7.0% All occupations: 7.0%

WA

26.9% All occupations: 10.8%

TAS

2.6% All occupations: 2.0%

NT

1.8% All occupations: 1.0%

ACT

0.0% All occupations: 1.9%

Employment by State and Territory (% Share)

State Marine Surveyors All Jobs Average
NSW 19.6 31.6
VIC 15.6 25.6
QLD 26.4 20.0
SA 7.0 7.0
WA 26.9 10.8
TAS 2.6 2.0
NT 1.8 1.0
ACT 0.0 1.9


  • Around 64% of Marine Surveyors live in capital cities, compared with the all jobs average of 62%.

    Western Australia and Queensland have a large share of employment relative to their population size.

    Source: Based on ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Share of workers across Australian states, territories and regions, in this job compared to the all jobs average.

Worker profile

Age and gender

Age In Years
51
All Jobs Average is 40
Female Share
2%
All Jobs Average is 48%

  • The median age of Marine Surveyors is 51 years. This is higher than the all jobs average of 40 years.

    A large share of workers are aged 45 to 54 years.

    Females make up 2% of the workforce. This is 46 percentage points below the all jobs average of 48%.

    Source: Based on ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Age profile and gender share compared to the all jobs average.

Age Profile (% Share)

Source: Based on ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Age profile of workers in this job compared to the all jobs average.
Age Bracket Marine Surveyors All Jobs Average
15-19 0.0 5.0
20-24 0.9 9.3
25-34 8.9 22.9
35-44 19.2 22.0
45-54 32.2 21.6
55-59 15.5 9.0
60-64 13.1 6.0
65 and Over 10.2 4.2
Median Age 51 40

Source: Based on ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Age profile of workers in this job compared to the all jobs average.

Employment Pathways

Education, training and experience

A formal qualification in marine surveying is usually needed to work as a Marine Surveyor. Vocational Education and Training (VET) and university are both common study pathways.

Registration with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority is required.

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  • Course Seeker to search and compare higher education courses.
  • ComparED to compare undergraduate and postgraduate student experiences and outcomes.
  • My Skills to compare Vocational Education and Training (VET) courses, providers and student outcomes.
  • AAPathways website to explore Maritime VET training pathways.

Highest Level of Education (% Share)

Source: ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Highest qualification completed by workers in this job (in any field of study). Qualifications needed by new workers might be different from the qualifications of workers already in the job.
Type of Qualification Marine Surveyors All Jobs Average
Post Graduate/Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate 11.2 10.1
Bachelor degree 28.9 21.8
Advanced Diploma/Diploma 34.7 11.6
Certificate III/IV 19.1 21.1
Year 12 5.4 18.1
Year 11 0.7 4.8
Year 10 and below 0.0 12.5

Source: ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Highest qualification completed by workers in this job (in any field of study). Qualifications needed by new workers might be different from the qualifications of workers already in the job.

Skills and Knowledge

Employers look for Marine Transport Professionals who work well in a team, can communicate clearly with a diverse range of people and are reliable.

Skills

Skills can be improved through training or experience.

  • 66%

    Mathematics

    Using maths to solve problems.

  • 66%

    Science

    Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.

  • 64%

    Reading comprehension

    Reading work related information.

  • 63%

    Critical thinking

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.

  • 63%

    Active learning

    Being able to use what you have learnt to solve problems now and again in the future.

  • 61%

    Judgment and decision making

    Figuring out the pros and cons of different options and choosing the best one.

  • 61%

    Operations analysis

    Understanding needs and product requirements to create a design.

  • 59%

    Complex problem solving

    Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.

  • 59%

    Monitoring

    Keeping track of how well work is progressing so you can make changes or improvements.

  • 59%

    Writing

    Writing things for co-workers or customers.

  • 57%

    Speaking

    Talking to others.

  • 55%

    Active listening

    Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.

  • 55%

    Quality control analysis

    Doing tests and checking products, services, or processes to make sure they are working properly.

  • 55%

    Systems analysis

    Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect it.

  • 55%

    Troubleshooting

    Figuring out why a machine or system went wrong and working out what to do about it.

  • 54%

    Operation monitoring

    Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.

  • 54%

    Time management

    Managing your own and other peoples' time to get work done.

  • 54%

    Systems evaluation

    Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.

  • 52%

    Management of personnel resources

    Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, and choosing the best people for the job.

  • 52%

    Coordination with others

    Being adaptable and coordinating work with other people.

Knowledge

These are important topics, subjects or knowledge areas.

  • 84%

    Engineering and technology

    Use engineering, science and technology to design and produce goods and services.

  • 83%

    Mechanical

    Machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

  • 78%

    Physics

    The physical laws of matter, motion and energy, and how they interact through space and time.

  • 78%

    Technical design

    Design techniques, tools, and principles used to make detailed technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

  • 75%

    Mathematics

    Arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics.

  • 62%

    English language

    English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

  • 60%

    Chemistry

    Chemical composition, structure, and properties. How chemicals are made, used, mixed, and can change.

  • 57%

    Administration and management

    Business principles involved in strategic planning, leadership, and coordinating people and resources.

  • 55%

    Public safety and security

    Use of equipment, rules and ideas to protect people, data, property, and institutions.

  • 53%

    Transportation

    Moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road.

  • 52%

    Clerical

    Word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office work.

  • 51%

    Building and construction

    Materials, and methods used to construct or repair houses, buildings, or other structures like highways and roads.

  • 50%

    Customer and personal service

    Understanding customer needs, providing good quality service, and measuring customer satisfaction.

  • 49%

    Production and processing

    Raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and ways of making and distributing goods.

  • 48%

    Computers and electronics

    Circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

  • 47%

    Education and training

    Curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

  • 45%

    Economics and accounting

    Economics and accounting, the financial markets, banking and checking and reporting of financial data.

  • 45%

    Personnel and human resources

    Recruiting and training people, managing pay and other entitlements (like sick leave), and negotiating pay and conditions.

  • 44%

    Law and government

    How our laws and courts work. Government rules and regulations, and the political system.

  • 38%

    Sales and marketing

    Showing, promoting, and selling including marketing strategy, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.

Abilities

Workers use these physical and mental abilities..

  • 73%

    Deductive reasoning

    Use general rules to find answers or solve problems logically.

  • 70%

    Written comprehension

    Read and understand written information.

  • 68%

    Oral expression

    Communicate by speaking.

  • 66%

    Sorting or ordering

    Order or arrange things in a pattern or sequence (e.g., numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

  • 64%

    Inductive reasoning

    Use lots of detailed information to come up with answers or make general rules.

  • 64%

    Oral comprehension

    Listen to and understand what people say.

  • 64%

    Written expression

    Write in a way that people can understand.

  • 63%

    Mathematics

    Choose the right maths method or formula to solve a problem.

  • 61%

    Problem spotting

    Notice when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong, even if you can't solve the problem.

  • 61%

    Categorising

    Come up with different ways of grouping things.

  • 61%

    Visualization

    Imagine how something will look after it is moved around or changed.

  • 61%

    Working with numbers

    Add, subtract, multiply, or divide.

  • 57%

    Near vision

    See details that are up-close (within a few feet).

  • 57%

    Originality

    Come up with unusual or clever ideas, or creative ways to solve a problem.

  • 54%

    Brainstorming

    Come up with a number of ideas about a topic, even if the ideas aren't very good.

  • 48%

    Speech recognition

    Identify and understand the speech of another person.

  • 48%

    Far vision

    See details that are far away.

  • 48%

    Flexibility of closure

    See a pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) hidden in other distracting material.

  • 48%

    Perceptual speed

    Use your eyes to quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.

  • 46%

    Speech clarity

    Speak clearly so others can understand you.

Activities

These are kinds of activities workers regularly do in this job.

  • 76%

    Keeping your knowledge up-to-date

    Keeping up-to-date with technology and new ideas.

  • 72%

    Giving expert advice

    Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups.

  • 71%

    Drafting, laying out, and specifying parts

    Detailing and describing how devices, parts or equipment are to be made, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.

  • 71%

    Making decisions and solving problems

    Using information to work out the best solution and solve problems.

  • 71%

    Planning and prioritising work

    Deciding on goals and putting together a detailed plan to get the work done.

  • 71%

    Thinking creatively

    Using your own ideas for developing, designing, or creating something new.

  • 70%

    Communicating within a team

    Giving information to co-workers by telephone, in writing, or in person.

  • 70%

    Communicating with the public

    Giving information to the public, business or government by telephone, in writing, or in person.

  • 70%

    Collecting and organising information

    Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or checking information or data.

  • 68%

    Checking compliance with standards

    Deciding whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.

  • 68%

    Researching and investigating

    Looking for, getting and understanding different kinds of information.

  • 68%

    Checking for errors or defects

    Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials for errors, problems or defects.

  • 68%

    Looking for changes over time

    Comparing objects, actions, or events. Looking for differences between them or changes over time.

  • 68%

    Making sense of information and ideas

    Looking at, working with, and understanding data or information.

  • 66%

    Building good relationships

    Building good working relationships and keeping them over time.

  • 66%

    Monitoring people, processes and things

    Checking objects, actions, or events, and keeping an eye out for problems.

  • 64%

    Explaining things to people

    Helping people to understand and use information.

  • 61%

    Assessing and evaluating things

    Working out the value, importance, or quality of things, services or people.

  • 61%

    Documenting or recording information

    Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.

  • 50%

    Working with computers

    Using computers to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.

Interests and demands

Learn about the daily activities, and physical and social demands faced by workers. Explore the values and work styles that workers rate as most important.

Interests

Interests are the style or type of work we prefer to do. All interest areas are shown below.

  • 95%

    Analytical

    Ideas and thinking. Searching for facts and figuring out problems in your head.

  • 86%

    Practical

    Practical, hands-on work. Often with plants and animals, or materials like wood, tools, and machinery.

  • 52%

    Administrative

    Following set procedures and routines. Working with numbers and details more than with ideas, usually following rules.

  • 52%

    Enterprising

    Starting up and carrying out projects. Leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes require risk taking and often deal with business.

  • 38%

    Creative

    Working with forms, designs and patterns. Often need self-expression and can be done without following rules.

  • 14%

    Helping

    Working with people. Helping or providing service to others.

Values

Work values are important to a person’s feeling of satisfaction. All six values are shown below.

  • 86%

    Independence

    Work alone and make decisions. Workers are able to try out their own ideas, make decisions on their own, and work with little or no supervision.

  • 81%

    Achievement

    Results oriented. Workers are able to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment.

  • 81%

    Recognition

    Advancement and the potential to lead. Workers are recognised for the work that they do, they may give directions and instructions to others, and they are looked up to in their company and their community.

  • 79%

    Working conditions

    Job security and good working conditions. There is usually a steady flow of interesting work, and the pay and conditions are generally good.

  • 67%

    Support

    Supportive management that stands behind employees. Workers are treated fairly by their company, they are supported by management, and have supervisors who train them well.

  • 62%

    Relationships

    Serve and work with others. Workers usually get along well with each other, do things to help other people, and are rarely pressured to do things that go against their sense of right and wrong.

Demands

The physical and social demands that workers face most often are shown below:

  • 95%

    Telephone

    Talk on the telephone.

  • 94%

    Electronic mail

    Use electronic mail.

  • 92%

    Face-to-face discussions

    Talk with people face-to-face.

  • 85%

    Being exact or accurate

    Be very exact or highly accurate.

  • 85%

    Freedom to make decisions

    Have freedom to make decision on your own.

  • 85%

    Wear common protective or safety equipment

    Wear equipment like safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hard hats or life jackets.

  • 82%

    Teamwork

    Work with people in a group or team.

  • 80%

    Impact of decisions

    Make decisions that have a large impact on other people.

  • 79%

    Indoors, heat controlled

    Work indoors with access to heating or cooling.

  • 78%

    Unstructured work

    Have freedom to decide on tasks, priorities, and goals.

  • 77%

    Time pressure

    Work to strict deadlines.

  • 77%

    Contact with people

    Have contact with people by telephone, face-to-face, or any other way.

  • 77%

    Loud or uncomfortable sounds

    Be exposed to noises and sounds that are distracting or uncomfortable.

  • 76%

    Indoors, not heat controlled

    Work indoors without heating or cooling (e.g., warehouse without heat).

  • 74%

    Letters and memos

    Write letters and memos.

  • 72%

    Consequence of error

    Work where mistakes have serious consequences.

  • 70%

    Lead or coordinate a team

    Lead others to do work activities.

  • 70%

    Responsible for outcomes

    Take responsibility for the results of other people's work.

  • 67%

    Exposure to contaminants

    Be exposed to pollutants, gases, dust or odours.

  • 67%

    Frequent decision making

    Frequently make decisions that impact other people.

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