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Trainee inland navigation skipper | From 2026

Do you love boating as much as we do? Then you've come to the right place. From 2026, we will be looking for trainee bargemen for our beautiful fleet, a colleague with a lot of heart, friendliness and a strong technical and service orientation.

We, KölnTourist, have been operating shipping for many decades.
As a family business and the second largest passenger shipping company in Cologne, we offer our guests boat trips and boat charters with an exclusive variety of experiences and good humor, authentically and with great attention to detail.
As an employer, we stand for tolerance, respect, loyalty and a strong team spirit.

This is what we bring on board:

  • a beautiful fleet
  • a great team that you can rely on
  • Flat hierarchies and plenty of personal responsibility
  • individual training
  • High demands on our service quality (Service Q certified)
  • Opportunities for further training
  • Regulated free time (#Ruhetagammontag )
  • Shortened by 1/2 year for very good performance
  • If you perform well, you will be taken on after passing your final exam

 Here's what you bring on board:

  • Love for shipping
  • a completed high school diploma (at least a secondary school diploma)
  • Flexibility and resilience
  • Technical interest
  • a high degree of initiative, resilience and personal commitment
  • You can motivate yourself and your colleagues in the team even in turbulent moments
  • Good grades in math and geography
  • Good language skills in German and English

These are your tasks on board:

  • Support in the planning and implementation of boat trips
  • Navigation, control and monitoring of ships
  • Familiarization with safety precautions and rescue measures
  • Maintenance and inspection of technical equipment on board
  • Cooperation with the crew to ensure smooth ship operation
  • Dealing with modern communication and navigation systems

We have aroused your interest?

Then we are looking forward to receiving your meaningful application documents

by e-mail to Lothar Oremek: oremek@koelntourist.net

 

Really ... Inland skippers? - Of course!

Want to take a look behind the scenes? Our trainees Jenny, Jakob and Cedric share a few impressions of their daily work in their video blog.

The video blog is part of the competition "Echt jetzt ... Binnenschiffer?" of the Federal Association of German Inland Navigation and the BDS Inland Navigation together with the BMDV.

Camera, sound and editing: Tobias Nahrendorf

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