Technical Superintendent at WTS Energy

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

• Analyse vessel and equipment breakdowns and develop additional maintenance activities to fill maintenance gap that could have prevented breakdown.
• Ensure that all maintenance jobs are properly logged onto the PMS by the vessel managers. Follow up on status of open tasks.
• 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.

• Monitor the fuel consumption of vessels and report any variations from the makers specific fuel consumption standard.
• Monitor budget spends to ensure cost effective vessel operations and maintenance
• Liaise with the Vessel managers to develop annual budgets for the maintenance of the fleet.
• 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.