Chief Engineer

The Chief Engineer Officer is the ship's technical manager and head of the maintenance team, responsible for the safe and efficient operation of all machinery and equipment installed on board.

Requirements

• Budget Control
• Bunkering operations
• Charterers instructions, terminal and state requirements, port documentation
• Cleaning and inspection of WHU and uptake fires
• Communications with other nationalities
• Crankshaft deflections, Alternator air gaps
• Disciplinary procedures & process
• Diversity Awareness
• Emergency procedures
• Experience with cargo transfer operations (STS, Co-mingling, COW, Inert Gas, LNG discharge, emergency operations)
• Experience with multinational crews
• Experience with Products Crude and LNG Cargo planning arrangements
• Flashing from cold, purge cycles, testing of Boiler water and associated hazards with incorrect impurity levels.
• Function of AVR and Brushless excitation
• Handling incompetent/difficult staff
• Hazards associated with cargoes.
• HV experience and safety precautions
• IG systems, Deck water seal, Fixed O2 analyzers and calibration
• IMO conventions and requirements.
• Importance of testing Quick closing valves/ Fire flaps/ Emergency bilge suction / CO2 / FFA equipment.
• Intrinsically Safe/Explosion proof fittings
• IT experience
• LNG pumping systems and HV equipment
• Newbuilds
• Onboard Accounting procedures
• Operation of cargo handling equipment and construction of tanks.
• Ordering & Purchase of victuals and stores,
• Personal safety, Ship safety & protection of the environment.
• Preparations for all surveys.
• PSC, SIRE, ISM, ISPS and other industry inspections.
• PTW systems, ISM requirements, Risk assessment
• Refit Experience
• Reverse power trips
• Reversing, Cylinder lubrication, Performance measuring.
• Routine Maintenance
• Routine maintenance, Emergency operation. Cylinder Liner oil retention, piston rings and quills.
• Safety equipment
• Steam driven cargo pumps, Frame systems.
• Steering Gear, Evaporators, Air compressors, Hotel Services and Fridge systems. Purifiers and Clarifiers
• Team building - How to train and guide subordinates
• Testing of boiler trips etc.
• Written and spoken English to high standard.

Benefits

• Diversity Awareness
• Emergency procedures
• Hazards associated with cargoes.
• Importance of testing Quick closing valves/ Fire flaps/ Emergency bilge suction / CO2 / FFA equipment.
• Safety equipment