Engineering
AMSA Engineer Class 2
- Modules
- 4
- Lessons
- 14
- Questions
- 70
AI-drafted catalogue content pending SME review. Sea service and course requirements change; verify with AMSA before relying on this for a career decision.
Aligned to the published AMSA requirements and the relevant Marine Orders. Official source (AMSA). Drafted from Marine Order 72 (Engineer officers) 2014 as registered on legislation.gov.au, and AMSA guidance at amsa.gov.au. Competences follow STCW Code sections A-III/1 and A-III/2. Australia issues no yacht-specific engineering certificate; this is the general engineer officer ladder..
AUS-EC2-M1 · The Certificate
4 lessons
AUS-EC2-M1-A A chief engineer's ticket that most people mistake for a mate's
Practice in examiner ↗AUS-EC2-L1.1What it lets you doStart with the entitlement, because the entitlement is the thing people get wrong. Marine Order 72, Schedule 1, says an Engineer Class 2 certificate permits its holder to serve as **chief engineer on a vessel of less than 3000 kW propulsion power, in any operating area**. Not near-coastal. Not restricted. Any operating area.AUS-EC2-L1.2The prerequisite, and the three sea service optionsEngineer Class 2 has two limbs: a **prerequisite certificate**, and **qualifying seagoing service**. Most people know the first limb only in its most obvious form and assume the ladder is narrower than it is.AUS-EC2-L1.3The Engineer Class 3 shortcutUnder MO72 Option 2, a holder of an Engineer Class 3 near coastal certificate can apply directly for Engineer Class 2 by completing the Engineer Watchkeeper course without holding that certificate, trading the associated oral exam and Training Record Book programme for an extra twelve months of qualifying sea service.AUS-EC2-L1.4Courses, the medical, and the oralSea service is the hard part. The courses are the expensive part. Do them in the wrong order and you pay for both twice.
AUS-EC2-M2 · Running the Department
3 lessons
AUS-EC2-M2-A The second engineer's real job
Practice in examiner ↗AUS-EC2-L2.1Planned maintenanceThe planned maintenance system is the department. Everything else — the watch, the spares, the budget, the surveys — hangs off it. As second engineer you own it. The chief signs it; you run it.AUS-EC2-L2.2Leading the watch teamYou have kept the watch. You know what good looks like. The hard part now is getting it out of people who are not you — a junior with three months in the job, a rotational who arrived yesterday, an ETO who reports to you on paper and to no one in practice.AUS-EC2-L2.3Spares, stores and the budgetNobody joined the engine room to run a store. But the spares inventory is where engineering judgement meets money, and it is judged by exactly one outcome: whether the part was aboard when it was needed.
AUS-EC2-M3 · The Machinery, at Depth
4 lessons
AUS-EC2-M3-A Overhaul, auxiliaries and the systems that stop the ship
Practice in examiner ↗AUS-EC2-L3.1Main engine overhaulAn overhaul is not a parts-replacement exercise. It is the one chance you get to look inside a machine that has been running blind for thousands of hours — and every component you take out is evidence about how the engine has been operated.AUS-EC2-L3.2Auxiliary machinery and boilersAsk any experienced engineer what has actually ruined their week and it is almost never a main engine. It is a generator that will not take the load, a purifier that keeps tripping, a seawater pump that has eaten its impeller, an air compressor that will not make start air.AUS-EC2-L3.3Refrigeration and air conditioningLearn refrigeration properly, because on a yacht you will spend more of your career inside it than inside a main engine. The physics is the same whether it is a provisions room, a wine fridge or a 200-ton chilled water plant.AUS-EC2-L3.4Hydraulics and deck machineryThe hydraulic system is the most dangerous thing on a yacht that is not on fire. Three hundred bar behind a pinhole will cut through a hand without the operator noticing until the tissue dies. And unlike the engine room, it is used every single day by people who are not engineers.
AUS-EC2-M4 · Chief, Below 3000 kW
3 lessons
AUS-EC2-M4-A The authority the certificate actually carries
Practice in examiner ↗AUS-EC2-L4.1The chief engineer's duties and legal responsibilityA great many superyachts sit below 3000 kW of main propulsion. An Engineer Class 2 holder can be the chief engineer on all of them, anywhere in the world. Understand what that means before you accept it.AUS-EC2-L4.2Surveys, class and statutory certificatesNobody becomes an engineer for this. But a chief engineer who lets a survey lapse has detained the ship as surely as if the main engine had seized, and it will have been entirely preventable.AUS-EC2-L4.3Casualty and damage control belowEvery casualty in an engine room has the same structure. Something fails. You have seconds to a few minutes. What you do in that window decides whether it stays a defect or becomes a disaster.