Senior Technical Superintendent

Job Summary

This role includes ensuring the maintenance, repair, and compliance of tankers with international regulations, managing budgets, coordinating with equipment maker, shipyards, repair companies and suppliers, and ensuring safe and efficient operation of the fleet. You should be independently assisting ship staff in troubleshooting technical issues, and work closely with regulatory bodies, Classification societies, local administration to ensure adherence to SOLAS, MARPOL & prevailing maritime laws and safety standards.

Key Responsibilities

The role will oversee the technical operations of tanker vessels on tramping trade with Oil majors and oil traders. The role will ensure assigned vessels are maintained according to Company procedures & International regulations (Class, Flag, USCG, AMSA & other MoUs). The role includes regular overseas trips to inspect ships will be required. The successful candidate will have the ability to handle occasional work pressure.

• Ensuring statutory and Class surveys of vessels are carried out in a timely manner. Arrange all Technical repairs/calibration services, safety related Services as per the schedule.
• Work closely with ship staff to ensure that all safety, environmental, and quality procedures are followed and avoid downtime.
• Conduct regular vessel inspections & audits in line with SIRE/TMSA guidelines to identify potential problems and areas for improvement.
• Conduct audits of assigned ships and conduct minimum one sailing visit/ship/year.
• Plan and coordinate vessel maintenance, repairs, and dry-dockings.
• Ensure company PMS is followed and updated and provide technical support to ship staff as required.
• Monitor and improve the vessel performance, improve efficiency and CII ratings.
• Manage vessel budgets and control maintenance expenses.
• Monitor and review, weekly, monthly, quarterly reporting, etc. from the ships, & ensure that all records are filed in PMS/Sharepoint/ company’s repository.
• Carry out pre-purchase inspection for the target assets and prepare for takeover of vessels.
• Attend and participate in seatrials of yard deliveries and ensure all the observations are closed out.
• Follow up Guarantee Claims of each assigned vessels with Shipyard/makers for successful closure.
• Participate in the projects assigned by the company.
• Guide and assist Technical Superintendents, Technical executives and Purchasers.
• Monitor performances of ship staff & appraise Senior Officers / Engineers / Ratings as required.
• Monitoring KPIs of assigned individuals.
• Assist in Crew selection.
  
  

• Proficiency certificate: MEO Class 1 Certificate of competency or Certificate of Competency (motor).
• Minimum 4-5 years of experience as Technical Superintendent in a Ship Management/Owner company looking after oil/chemical tankers, product tankers. Additional experience of Gas carriers is added preference.
• A minimum of 3 years’ relevant experience as Chief Engineer on Product Tanker.
• Able to prioritise workload and handle the ship operations independently.
• Prior experience in operating ME-C engine, Framo system, BWTS and EGCS.
• SIRE/ CDI inspections.
• Independently carry out the incident investigations.
• Drydocking (including special surveys) and retrofit.
• Proficient in English language.
• Good communication skills.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft office.
• Power presentation skills.