Technical Superintendent Role
The Technical Superintendent responsibilities will be to represent the owner interests for the assigned vessels through liaising with the external technical managers and the crew of the vessels to ensure the vessels have a high standard of machinery and equipment maintenance that minimises vessel downtime, operates within budget and maintains the value of the owners asset. This will include monitoring the day to day operations, reviewing maintenance, budgeting & opex and two visits a year to the vessels. This role will require travelling to the vessels for 2-4 month of the year. The Technical Superintendent will be managing 8/9 vessels.
Experience / Skills
Min 5 yrs. sailing experience on Tankers/Chemical Vessels
Minimum one year sailing experience as a Chief Engineer / 2nd Engineer, with Class 1 certification.
Shore Experience Preferred
Familiar with ISM / ISPS codes
Regular Tasks
- Vessel Maintenance Track Planned Maintenance System to ensure required maintenance is carried out to a good standard and early warnings of possible breakdowns are followed up to prevent the breakdown.
- Expensive Spare Parts Review purchase orders for expensive spare parts.
- Technical Reports Receive and review Technical reports from the vessels
- Lube Oils Monitor Lube Oil Consumptions and review the analysis reports.
- Bunkers - Monitor bunker consumptions and review analysis reports.
- Speed and Consumptions Monitoring - Review consumptions to assess vessel performance.
- EGCS Maintenance - Review the EGCS operation and issues
- Crew Changes Review Engineer Crew changes and new crew qualifications
- Q88 - Assess the details on Q88 are maintained correctly by the managers.
- Budget, Opex and Additional expenditure - Review and agree the Technical parts of the budget proposals, review the technical parts of the monthly Opex reports and authorise additional expenditure when required.
- Incident Response - Respond to technical incidents such as breakdowns and review managers response and report to assess cause of incident and prevent future occurrences.
- Maintenance Audits - Carry out Maintenance audits onboard the vessels twice a year.
- Technical Managers Audit - Plan and Participate in the Technical Managers Audit to review the yearly Opex and Policies.
- New Building Vessels - Evaluate and agree the predelivery budget, review the Sea Trial Data, track the progress of vessel delivery and follow guarantee claims
- Dry Docks - Review and agree the scope of work and budget, then monitor the drydock progress.
