Overview
The role of the Assistant Technical Superintendent encompasses representing the owner's interests in relation to the assigned vessels. This involves maintaining a high standard of machinery and equipment upkeep to minimize vessel downtime, operate within budget constraints, and preserve the value of the owner's assets. Duties include monitoring day-to-day operations, assessing maintenance procedures, managing budgets and operational expenses, and conducting onsite visits to vessels. This position necessitates frequent travel to the vessels and entails overseeing a specific set of vessels as designated by the technical head, while also reporting to them.
Main Responsibilities
- Ensuring the safe, efficient, and environmentally conscious operation of the vessels assigned.
- Ensuring compliance with all relevant rules and regulations, particularly the ISM code, flag state, port state, and industry-specific requirements and regulations, and providing support to ships as needed.
- During the absence of the line manager, monitoring and following up on important matters and updating the immediate reporting line manager.
- Providing support for technical operations as required.
- Maintaining technical statistics.
- Addressing additional duties determined during the annual employee dialogue.
- Analyzing and responding to undesirable events.
- Assisting the assigned vessels in preparing for internal/external audits and PSC inspections.
- Conducting visits to the vessel to assess vessel condition and staff onboard.
- Compiling reports of inspections and findings.
- Organizing management reviews and ensuring the implementation of agreed-upon actions.
- Monitoring and following up with technical managers on technical matters related to the ships.
- Preparing and planning for ships' takeover and related arrangements.
- Ensuring the documentation and timely submission of weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports from technical managers overseeing the assigned ships.
- Checking and monitoring technical managers' budgets and actual expenditures, documenting any deviations.
- Verifying non-budget costs and discrepancies.
- Assisting with ship repairs and services as needed, coordinating with technical managers.
- Monitoring ships' and machinery performances in terms of efficiency and preventive maintenance systems (PMS).
- Ensuring that vessel documentation and certificates are up to date for trade.
- Conducting screenings of senior officers as proposed by technical managers and conducting owner briefings prior to their joining.
- Managing regular reports from the vessels assigned and maintaining structured filing.
- Reviewing and following up on routine reports from the vessels and managers.
- Conducting regular data analysis of costs, PMS, and other key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess the health of ship management.
- Undertaking any other technical-related assignments as required and assigned by the line technical manager.
Qualifications
- Technical/maritime qualifications, preferably with seagoing experience on bulk carriers as Chief or Second Engineer/Master OR a degree in naval architecture or marine engineering with relevant office experience handling dry bulk vessels (with cranes).
- Proficiency in both oral and written English.
- Standard computer skills.
- Strong environmental focus.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Good interpersonal skills for fostering close relationships with shipboard staff, vessel technical managers, operation managers, as well as internal and external support functions.
- Familiarity with PMS and SMS systems.
- Knowledge of the Chinese language is preferred.
