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Engine Storekeeper
Role summary
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The Engine Storekeeper manages technical and engine-room supplies onboard, ensuring spare parts, tools, lubricants, and consumables are correctly received, recorded, stored, and issued. Requirements typically include previous experience in a shipboard stores, warehouse, engineering, or maritime environment; good English communication; basic computer and inventory-system skills; and familiarity with stock control and safety procedures. The successful candidate is organized, physically fit, detail-oriented, and able to work at sea for extended periods. Expectations include maintaining accurate inventories, checking deliveries, monitoring stock levels, supporting engineering teams, following company safety and environmental policies, and working effectively within a multicultural crew.
Can I work on cruise ships?
Never pay anyone for a visa or a job offer. A real employer pays the permit costs and never asks you for money.
How it works
How it works: No host-country permit: a seafarer medical, safety training, a seaman's book, a US crew visa and a Schengen visa.
Watch for: Recruitment fees are banned on ships.
Official source: US Department of State: crewmember visa. Checked October 2026.
What the job usually comes with on cruise ships
Usual for cruise ships, varies by employer. Checked October 2026.
| Housing | Free cabin, usually shared |
|---|---|
| Meals | Free (by law) |
| Flights | Joining and home flights usually paid; free repatriation (by law) |
| Service charge | Passenger service charges pooled on many lines |
| Contract | 6 to 9 months on board, about 2 months unpaid between contracts |
| Leave | 2.5 days a month, often paid as cash |
| Income tax | Usually not withheld; depends on your home country |
Senior staff often get more than line staff, for example a single room or a yearly home flight. Ask the employer what the job includes before you accept.
Guidance, not legal advice. Rules change; your employer confirms the details for your case.
About Explora Journeys
Explora Journeys is a luxury ocean travel brand within the MSC Group, created to offer a more relaxed, residential style of cruising. Its ships focus on spacious accommodation, refined dining, wellness, enrichment, and highly personalized service rather than traditional mass-market cruising. The company operates internationally and recruits crew across hotel, marine, technical, culinary, guest services, and administrative departments. Employees work in a multicultural environment with structured onboard procedures, safety training, and opportunities to develop a career at sea. Explora Journeys emphasizes thoughtful hospitality, contemporary design, sustainability, and destination-led travel. As part of the wider MSC organization, it benefits from the group’s extensive maritime experience, global network, and established crew-support systems. Employment conditions vary by position, vessel, contract, nationality, and applicable maritime regulations.