Senior Operations Manager at Criterion Nigeria

Responsibilities

• Oversees all operational activities to ensure high quality and optimized service delivery.
• Work in close liaison with the marine support and technical team on all vessel management matters.
• Ensures the attainment of set operational efficiency and quality targets
• Optimises fleet capacity utilisation and standardization
• Investigates new opportunities for deriving value from marine services competencies
• Supervises Operations and Vessel budget preparation
• Controls the assigned budget and actively seek operational leverage to increase cost efficiency
• Carries-out operational budget analysis for management and ensures compliance with budget
• Reviews monthly operational budget results, implements monthly variance reporting as compared to budget and advice on expenditure trends.
• Develops and maintains internal controls and policies for an effective operations system
• Deals with non-conformities covering ship and shore based operations.
• Provides full cooperation to regulatory bodies regarding marine and technical operations.
• Develops and progresses the new-build strategy and provides input to contract concept selection
• Enforces a zero downtime preventive vessel maintenance policy regime
• Provides all the necessary support to ensure timely port turnaround and shipyard repair activities.
• Monitors/rectifies non-compliance to vessel operating and SMS procedures.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Naval Architecture or Marine Management
• Internationally recognized shipping qualification
• Minimum of 7 years experience as a marine operations manager
• Knowledge of Ship building and ship docking/ drawings/work scopes
• Previous experience in emerging markets / Africa / Nigeria is a plus.