Junior Marine Operations Assistant
Do you stay calm under pressure and thrive in a fast moving environment? Do you get a kick out of organizing, juggling priorities, and dealing with all kinds of people? If you want a varied role in the maritime world, one that could set the foundation for the rest of your career, you might be the Ship’s Agent / Junior Marine Operations Assistant we’re looking for.
You’ll join our agency and logistics team, a group of specialists who genuinely enjoy what they do. In this role you support the daily operations around incoming and departing vessels, always with a personal, service first approach. You make sure everything around a ship’s port call gets arranged efficiently and on time.
Your responsibilities include:
- Coordinating the daily processes around a vessel’s port call and stay.
- Handling customs and immigration formalities.
- Preparing and processing customs documentation.
- Liaising with clients, ship’s crew, customs, the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, and pilotage services.
- Organizing the loading and unloading of vessels.
- Arranging transport and hotel accommodation for crew.
- Managing the storage, transport, and delivery of ship supplies.
- Taking shifts outside office hours.
You’ll also support our Vessel Managers and Marine Operations Managers as needed, working on both our own vessels and those under our management. That means broad, hands on experience across every part of maritime services.
No two days look alike. You’ll switch quickly between tasks, keep the bigger picture in view, and work with your team to make sure clients and vessels get the support they need. Shipping runs 24/7, and so do we, which means you’ll take your share of shifts outside regular hours alongside your colleagues. It asks for flexibility and responsibility, but it also puts you right at the heart of the action.
About SeaMar
You’ll be joining a healthy, well established family business known for its no nonsense, open culture. At SeaMar we keep communication short, stay practical, and work as a team. We roll up our sleeves, help each other out, and make sure clients and vessels always get the service they expect.
SeaMar offers a full range of services for shipping and offshore energy. Beyond agency and logistics, we run our own fleet, manage vessels for clients, and supply safety equipment and services at sea and onshore. That makes us a versatile, international maritime company that’s still growing.
What are we looking for in you?
Above all, we want someone motivated, ready to take ownership, and committed to a small but powerful family business. You like staying active, enjoy variety, and understand that in shipping, you’re sometimes on when others are off.
That is why we are looking for someone who:
- Have MBO level working and thinking skills.
- Be fluent in Dutch and English, spoken and written.
- Have a strong interest in shipping, backed by training or experience in the maritime sector.
- Be customer and service minded.
- Communicate well, work precisely, and handle stress with ease.
- Multitask comfortably and stay organized.
- Be flexible and available to work outside office hours.
- Think practically and focus on solutions.
- Hold a valid driver’s license B.
- Live within about 30 km of Den Helder, so you can be reached during off hour shifts.
What do we offer?
A varied, full time role in a growing international family business, with real responsibility and plenty of room to build broad, hands on experience in the maritime and offshore sector.
You can also count on:
- A competitive salary with good secondary employment conditions.
- A varied role with plenty of variety and responsibility.
- An informal and open working atmosphere with short lines of communication.
- Opportunities to follow relevant studies, training, and courses.
- Room for personal development and growth opportunities within SeaMar.
Interested?
If your heart’s in shipping and logistics, and you get your energy from a dynamic environment where no day is the same, this could be the job for you. The occasional evening or weekend doesn’t scare you, and you want to grow within a versatile maritime company?
Send your CV and cover letter to crewing@seamar.nl
The application period for this vacancy closes on September 15, 2026.
Unsolicited acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated.
