New Job Opening: Technical Superintendent in Eti Osa, LA

Job Title

Technical Superintendent

Reports To:

GM Technical Operations

Department:

Technical Operations

Working Relationships:

All Departments

Position Description:

To ensure the seaworthiness of vessels to meet company, charterer and class standards while delivering a continuous reduction of the annual maintenance budget by managing the planned maintenance activities, dry docking and hands on problem solving on technical issues for all company’s Vessels.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Liaison between company and Vessel Management Company

• Acts as the first point-of-contact between the business and the vessel Technical Managers and

interface on all technical and operational vessel matters.

• Review and approve every work scope and material requisition submitted by the Technical Managers


• Monitor defects and timely close out and collate weekly reports from the Vessel Manager.


• Ensure vessel meets Class, Marine and Charterer’s requirement. Support QHSE with timely planning

of Class Surveys and inspections.

• Coordinate with the Procurement department to ensure timely delivery of goods/spares to the vessels

to support quick vessel turnaround.

• Monitor and analyse the technical status of all vessels and submit a summary to the relevant stakeholders.

PMS- Development and implementation

• Ensure that all maintenance jobs are properly logged onto the PMS by the vessel managers. Follow up

on status of open tasks.

• Analyse vessel and equipment breakdowns and develop additional maintenance activities to fill

maintenance gap that could have prevented breakdown.

• Conduct periodic vessel inspections and share VIR report with TechOps and MarineOps

Root Cause investigations

• Register defects that are subject for root cause investigation.


• Analyse reason for reoccurring/frequent equipment failure. Provide evidence-based conclusion on if

the reason is human error, maintenance gap, knowledge gap or equipment quality.

• Implement process improvements or maintenance procedures to fill gap.


• Analyse operational reports to identify potential causes of defects, investigate reported defects and

ensure corrective & preventive actions are taken to sustain vessel availability.

Budget Management.

• Liaise with the Vessel managers to develop annual budgets for the maintenance of the fleet.


• Monitor budget spends to ensure cost effective vessel operations and maintenance


• Monitor the fuel consumption of vessels and report any variations from the makers specific fuel

consumption standard.

• Monitor the lube oil consumption of the vessels, analyse same and submit monthly reports to the relevant stakeholder.

Special Projects, Dry dock preparation, Repair operations, Monitoring, Analyses

• Work with the vessel technical managers to prepare comprehensive dry-dock scopes and duration,

ensuring minimal disruptions to vessel’s operating schedule.

• Source for cost effective and qualified dry-dock vendors.


• Ensure dockyard, ship builder and other parties involved in the dry-dock collectively and individually

endorse the planned dry-dock duration schedule.

• Ensure critical parts needed for the dry-dock are in the company warehouse or with the dry-dock vendor

prior to commencement of the dry-docking exercise.

• Supervise the dry-docking of all vessels in conjunction with the vessel technical managers.


• Management of critical spares list (store & vessel) and inventory management process including

minimum restocking levels, to ensure an optimal mix of cost efficiency and continued vessel availability.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• 10 - 15 years’ experience as a Marine Engineer.


• Previous experience as a Technical Superintendent is a mandatory requirement for this position


• Offshore sailing experience is an added advantage.


• Technical Superintendency license is required for this role


• Valid COC is an added advantage.

KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES & SKILLS REQUIRED

• Extensive knowledge of marine, tugboat, oil transportation and shipping industry


• Knowledge of vessel maintenance systems and equipment


• Capable of making decisions and giving directions to facilitate prompt service delivery


• Maintain confidentiality of all sensitive communications


• Ability to understand and execute complex oral and written instructions


• Ability to develop and implement appropriate procedures and controls


• Must be physically fit enough to board vessels, barges and tugs at sea and in port


• Willing to travel to the out ports.