Fleet Superintendent

Reports to: Fleet manager Responsibilities and duties: You shall: - Comply with IMS and all relevant international rules and regulations; - Ensure all your duties in accordance with quality, health, safety, environmental and ethics policies; - Propose a continuous performance improvement plan which will be reported and reviewed on a periodical basis; - Keep the Fleet manager advised of problems which arise on managed ships, and solve them, including issues related to speed and consumption, operational performance; - Be appointed when required as mentor in charge of Junior SI; - Assist in any emergency response as required. 1- Vessel maintenance follow up: - Monitor vessel performance (LO and HFO quality and consumptions), shipboard maintenance and repair programs; - Monitor planned maintenance software to detect any delay which could impact the operation of the vessel; - Prepare and organize the maintenance during ship’s trade; - Minimize interference with vessel commercial availability; - Supervise the shipboard working organization in close cooperation with Masters and Chief Engineers; - Monitor spare parts and stores availability and requests from vessels; - Conduct regular vessels inspections; - Submit the damage claims including stevedores damages in cooperation with Legal Dept; - Follow up defect reports, guarantee claims in a timely manner; - Answer to vessel monthly reports; - Implement actions related to relevant experience feedbacks on managed vessels. 2- Preparation of vessel dry dock - Prepare dry-docking specifications; - Evaluate tender documents; - Prepare documents relating to the docking (DAI, EDD); - Support the dry dock manager during the dry-dock; - Assist the dry dock manager during dry dock. (SI is deputy Dry Dock manager). Note: You are accountable for the works under your responsibilities, mainly class works. 3- Vessel budget - Prepare vessel’s budget; - Approve orders, invoices up to limit of authorization; - Monitor operating costs of the vessels to ensure expenses are kept within budget. 4- Crew related duties - Monitor crew overtime in respect of company policy; - Monitor rest/work hours and implement improvement; - Appraise senior officers; - Inform Marine Human Resources Department (MHRD) as soon as a problem is detected. 5- Certificates, inspections and surveys - Plan in due time safety inspections, statutory and classification surveys to maintain the validity of statutory and classification certificates (except ISM, ISPS, MLC certificates); - Notify classification society, or the flag administration, or classification society and the flag administration in case of deficiencies arising on the vessels. - Deputy Fleet Manager If designated as Deputy Fleet Manager you shall, in addition for all your fleet’s vessels: - Keep the Fleet Manager advised of problems which arise on their ships; - Monitor Fleet vessels’ performance and highlight non-conformities to Fleet manager. - Prepare and submit to the Fleet Manager regular reports detailing the operational status of each assigned vessel. - Ensure that ships are inspected at regular intervals to ensure a very close follow-up of shipboard activities. - Liaise with Crew Management Dept for: - core manning, - periodical review of manning level and the - shipboard working organization - senior officers planning (appointment, promotion…) - Brief Senior officers, analysis of appraisal, identification of training request - Ensure communication of information and feed backs to other fleets and departments; - Ensure that weekly report is updated by the SIs. - Monitor operating costs of the vessels to ensure expenses are kept within budget and optimized; - Be the Fleet manager’s substitute for relevant meetings - Promote safety involvement and participation to investigations and lessons learnt throughout the fleet SIs - Take the lead on assigned cross-fleet projects Minimum qualifications - Competent with various software, such as word, excel, power point, etc.; - Adequate knowledge of the vessel and vessel systems and technical environment. Experience - Superintendent preferred - Deep sea CE with slow speed propulsion preferred, or with experience in industry maintenance. Personal attributes - Analytical skills; - Rigor and method; - Effective verbal, written and presentation skills; - Ability to work both independently and in a team-based environment; - Demonstrated willingness to be flexible to change priorities; - Strong multi-tasking and organizational skills; - Management skills