Fleet Superintendent

A.P. Moller - Maersk is an integrated logistics company dedicated to connecting and simplifying supply chains, enabling global trade, and helping our customers grow. Our global fleet of container vessels is at the heart of our operations, and we are committed to ensuring their safe, efficient, and cost-effective operation. Joining Maersk offers a great journey with significant career development opportunities in a global organization, where you'll contribute to our core values and decarbonization agenda.

Position Summary:

As a Fleet Superintendent, you will be a direct manager for Captains and Chief Engineers, responsible for the overall operation and maintenance of a designated number of container vessels. Your primary objective will be to ensure the safe, efficient, and cost-effective performance of these vessels, in full alignment with company goals. This role offers a unique opportunity to develop your leadership abilities while making a tangible impact on our global fleet.

Key Responsibilities:

• Vessel Operations Management: Manage all operational matters relating to the vessels under your responsibility, ensuring smooth and efficient performance.
• Maintenance & Repairs: Oversee planned and unplanned maintenance, repairs, and modifications to the vessels' hull and machineries, ensuring work is completed within approved budgets.
• Dry Docking & Inspections: Plan and coordinate inspections and dry dockings of vessels, ensuring timely and effective execution.
• Compliance & Certification: Ensure all vessel certifications and surveys for class, flag, and international requirements are meticulously maintained and in order.
• Performance Monitoring: Follow up on vessel performance, identify deviations, and arrange for necessary corrective actions to be carried out.
• Financial Oversight: Oversee financial budgets specifically for vessel maintenance, repairs, stores, and dry dockings.
• Quality Assurance: Monitor the quality of all services rendered by shipyards, workshops, and suppliers to ensure adherence to regulatory standards and customer requirements.
• Technical & Vetting Inspections: Conduct thorough technical and vetting inspections of vessels.
• Safety Leadership: Ensure safety is consistently regarded as a primary responsibility across all operations under your purview.
• Team Leadership & Development: Directly manage Captains and Chief Engineers assigned to your vessels, focusing on effective team dynamics and ensuring highly skilled personnel onboard.
• Sea-to-Shore Collaboration: Build on sea-to-shore collaboration and drive engagement among your direct reports, officers, and crews onboard.
• Innovation & Improvement: Actively suggest innovations, cost savings, and improvements within your area of responsibility.
• Decarbonization Contribution: Provide operational feedback to improve Maersk's future newbuilding pipeline in terms of safety and efficiency, making an essential contribution to our decarbonization agenda.
• Reporting: Provide daily, weekly, and monthly reports to management, detailing operational status and key metrics.

Required Experience & Skills:

• Experience:2-3 years of experience as a Technical Superintendent; OR
• Diverse candidate with sailing experience as a Senior Marine Engineer (minimum qualification).
• Managerial Skills: Strong managerial abilities with the capability to ensure the development and performance of your employees.
• Communication & Collaboration: Excellent communication and collaborative skills, with the ability to navigate between diverse stakeholders and manage multiple tasks simultaneously. Fluent in both written and spoken English (company language).
• Problem Solving & Decision Making: Strong analytical skills and capability to make independent decisions based on experience, knowledge, and available information for unique situations.
• Drive & Motivation: A self-motivated, structured, and highly driven individual who maintains enthusiasm even in hectic and dynamic environments.
• Strategic Thinking: Able to see the bigger picture and contribute to broader company goals.
• Positive Mindset: Overall positive mindset and willingness to go the extra mile to succeed.

What We Offer:

Joining Maersk will embark you on a great journey with career development in a global organization. You will gain broad business knowledge of the company's activities globally, as well as understand how the complexity of fleet operations supports the transport and logistics business. We offer:

• A leadership role with direct managerial responsibility for Captains and Chief Engineers.
• The opportunity to shape the safety, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of a fleet of container vessels.
• Exposure to international travel and diverse operational challenges.
• A collaborative environment that values diversity and fosters professional growth.
• A direct contribution to Maersk's core values and its critical decarbonization agenda.