Tamrose Ventures Limited (TVL) was incorporated in 2003 (incidentally, the same year the Nigerian Cabotage Act was enacted) initially as a procurement and engineering services provider to the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry. During our course of operation, we noticed that personnel and equipment were being transported to offshore locations almost exclusively, by foreign marine logistic services providers in spite of the cabotage act.
A closer look at the marine logistic sector of the industry showed a few indigenous players with very old vessels (average age above 20 years) and a life-style oriented corporate mentality; thus creating companies with limited capacity and little or no organizational structure. This scenario provided a fertile ground for continued foreign dominance as lack of indigenous capacity hampered the effective implementation of the Cabotage Act.Reports To: Port Captain / Marine Superintendent
Department: Marine Operations
Working Relationships: Tech Ops, Procurement, QHSE
Position Description
Support the Marine Superintendent.
Roles and Responsibilities
Daily Planning and Resource:
Receiving daily activities reports from vessels and analyzing the reports for correctness
Monitoring daily fuel consumption using FUELTRAX software/Fuel management plan benchmark and report non-conformities.
Monitoring daily action requests from clients via emails and escalating to the Port Captain.
Monitoring daily requests from vessels through phones calls, emails & ERP
Interface with support department for the closure of vessels action items raised by client/internal audits/external audits
Vessel’s Requisitions and Port Call Management:
Scrutinize all material and service requests for correctness and escalate to Port Captain for approval.
Follow through with Supply Chain management for timely procurement and delivery of requested items to the vessels.
Monthly Visit to each Vessel for Inspection and dissemination of Instructions from management.
Liaise with Port Engineer to populate vessel’s pre port call maintenance activities and share with the client.
Follow through with the vessel and other responsible parties for timely closure on planned port call maintenance items to ensure seamless port call turnaround
Crew Planning and Resource:
Monitor minimum rest hours for all crew members onboard and make sure it is in compliance with MLC 2010 manilla amendments.
Monitor that all crew onboard are periodically conducting their CBT training to keep them abreast with current and international best practices.
Safety Planning and Resource:
Monitor safety observations onboard and enforce compliance onboard for one UC/UA to be reported daily per vessel.
Technical support for incident investigation onboard.
Assist Port Captain to raise MOC for vessels that requires changes in personnel, equipment, operations or location.
Monitor the conduct of drills and safety meetings onboard.
Periodic (Monthly) review of CCTV footage onboard for unsafe acts and conditions during operations offshore and recommending control measures to eliminate risks of incidents in the future.
Internal Audits Management:
Assist in conducting pre-Ovid Inspections
Assist in conducting vessel port call inspections.
Assist in conducting client specific Pre-hire inspections onboard.
External Audits Management:
Assist in closing OVID inspection action items for all vessels in his designation timely and appropriately.
Assist in closing all VPM and Walkthrough action items.
Assist in closing client specific port call inspections action items.
SOP:
Ensure an up-to-date availability of all needed navigational information and equipment (Notices to mariners, other relevant IMO/Flag state publication guidelines, clients MEMO, special information) are sent to the vessels and acknowledged by the vessels.
Compliance Management:
Ensure monthly vessel reports are sent timely to respective departments.
Ensure that weekly JV trackers are sent timely and appropriately to the client
Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree in Maritime Studies, Marine Engineering, or Logistics.
5 – 10 years offshore / marine operations experience.
Strong coordination, communication, and problem-solving skills.