How to become a port master or Dockmaster
Official title: Port master/Dockmaster
Also called: Dockmaster, Dry dock dockmaster, Dry dock port master, Dry dockmaster, Graving dockmaster, Port master, Dry dock port master, Graving dockmaster
Port master/Dockmaster supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in docking vessels for cleaning, painting and repair. He/she analyses vessel’s blueprints and specifications to determine size, shape and number of keel and bilge blocks required to support vessel. He/she oversees flooding operations and removal of vessel from dock.
Ways in
- Apprenticeship: Work-study diploma. Related ITE work-study diplomas: Work-Study Diploma in Port Automation Technology. You are employed by a company and study at ITE at the same time. Peernovo matched these from course names.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become a port master or Dockmaster?
Ways in include: Work-study diploma.
Will AI change the work of a port master or Dockmaster?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026