Fleet Manager – Oil & Chemical Tankers | Singapore
Faststream is partnering with an established international ship manager with a long track record across tankers. Their Singapore office looks after a group of Chinese-owned oil and chemical tankers, and they're bringing in a Fleet Manager to run it.
You'll own the fleet end to end: safety and technical performance, budgets, dry dockings, vetting readiness and the team of superintendents who deliver it. Just as important, you'll be the owners' first point of contact. Those conversations happen in Mandarin, so this is not a role where the language is a nice-to-have.
What you'll be doing
Faststream is partnering with an established international ship manager with a long track record across tankers. Their Singapore office looks after a group of Chinese-owned oil and chemical tankers, and they're bringing in a Fleet Manager to run it.
You'll own the fleet end to end: safety and technical performance, budgets, dry dockings, vetting readiness and the team of superintendents who deliver it. Just as important, you'll be the owners' first point of contact. Those conversations happen in Mandarin, so this is not a role where the language is a nice-to-have.
What you'll be doing
- Full accountability for the technical, operational and financial performance of an assigned tanker fleet.
- Leading, developing and allocating a team of Technical and Marine Superintendents.
- Owner relationship management in Mandarin, from routine reporting to budget negotiations and incident calls.
- Setting and controlling fleet OPEX and dry dock budgets, and explaining variances before the owner asks.
- Keeping vessels vetting-ready (SIRE 2.0, CDI) with strong PSC and terminal inspection performance.
- Dry dock planning and supervision across the fleet.
- Driving root-cause investigation and close-out on incidents, near misses and audit findings.
- Overseeing planned maintenance, spares, condition monitoring and energy efficiency across the fleet.
- Sailed as Chief Engineer, as a minimum, on oil or chemical tankers.
- Shore-side experience as a Fleet Manager, or equivalent senior technical management role, with oil and chemical tankers.
- Bilingual in English and Mandarin, spoken and written, with confidence presenting to and negotiating with Chinese ship owners.
- Experience managing a team of superintendents and a multi-vessel budget.
- Solid working knowledge of TMSA, SIRE 2.0, MARPOL, class and flag requirements for tankers.
- Based in Singapore
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