Marine Technical Superintendent

Overview

• Monitoring assigned vessel’s technical operation and maintenance.
• Monitoring performance through monthly return reports/vessel inspections and maintain optimum maintenance levels.
• Monitoring and establishing reasons for excessive/unusual wear and tear and developing means to control/rectify same, through consultation with Technical Manager.
• Monitoring technical performance of vessels and monitoring consumption of spares/lub oils and bunkers to ensure these are not caused by poor condition of vessel.
• Monitoring survey cycles, statutory survey requirements and carrying out important surveys physically onboard.
• Planning regular and special surveys/repairs/dry docking in advance with max time and cost benefits for each vessel.
• Liasing with Master or Chief Engineer on the vessel’s maintenance program and on operational matters.
• Inspecting vessel’s under his charge.
• Providing detailed operating budgets for maintenance dry-docking and special survey Initiating follow-up action where possible, to contain costs, within budgeted parameters.
• Maintaining current data on costs obtained from various sources, in-cooperation with Procurement department.
• Controlling volume and preparing specifications for repairs given to outside workshops/repaires and organizing supplies of repair equipment.
• Providing feedback on purchases and encourage ship staff to tackle same onboard.
• Drawing timely attention of principals to areas where costs might be expected and which are additional to the budget.
• Advising the ships under control on budget as well as the actual cost for the technical items.
• Reducing costs by motivating the ship’s staff, improving cost awareness by regularly advising them on cost of stores and spares ordered.
• Maintaining validity of class, international, national, and specific certificates.
• Keeping up to date on requirements/changes in statutory/class rules/development and other regulations.
• Attending to matters for registration reflagging, selling, and buying as per flag requirements.
• Ship staff to be continuously updated/instructed/advised/follow up on implementation of same.
• Reviewing effectiveness of company’s SMS system and discussing with Master on its implementation during inspection.
• Ensuring that all forms are filled in correctly and filed onboard/sent to the office.

Job Type: Full-time

Education

• Master's (Preferred)

Experience

• sailing: 5 years (Required)
• Willingness to travel:
• 50% (Preferred)