The role requires a forward-thinking technical leader who can drive safety excellence, efficiency, digital initiatives, and compliance across a diverse and growing fleet.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the overall technical management and lifecycle performance of the company’s fleet, ensuring global compliance, operational reliability, and commercial readiness.
- Oversee planned maintenance, condition-based monitoring, drydock strategy, procurement, spares optimisation, and asset improvement programmes.
- Provide leadership to Superintendents, Managers and Senior Technical stakeholders, setting standards and building high-performance teams.
- Drive digitalisation, automation, and energy-efficiency initiatives to enhance vessel performance, reduce operational risk, and support sustainability targets.
- Manage technical budgets, cost optimisation, and long-term asset planning.
- Support newbuild strategy, vessel delivery projects, and technology assessments aligned to future propulsion and low-carbon fuels.
- Attend vessels, engage with Masters/Chief Engineers, verify maintenance standards, and ensure adherence to ISM/ISPS/MLC and HSSEQ standards.
- Collaborate with commercial, crewing, HSSEQ and operational teams to ensure alignment across fleet initiatives.
- Proven relevant leadership experience managing larger marine teams.
- Chief Engineer (COC 1) with significant sea experience and proven shore-based managerial responsibility.
- Strong track record overseeing drydock planning, fleet maintenance strategies and technical budgeting.
- Demonstrated experience of dual-fuel or low-carbon propulsion technologies (e.g., LNG, methanol) and/or experience with advanced engine systems (mandatory).
- Strong stakeholder engagement, ability to influence across executive and operational levels, and a strong coaching/mentorship mindset.
- Proven ability to lead digital transformation or technology initiatives within fleet management.
- Lead a major fleet division with end-to-end impact on operational excellence, asset strategy, and digital transformation.
- Drive future-focused innovation, including energy-efficiency, automation, and new propulsion technologies.
- Work within a highly collaborative global environment with long-term strategic growth.