Manager, Owned Fleet

Description

Fednav, headquartered in Montreal, is the largest ocean-going ship owning and chartering group in Canada engaged in ocean transportation of mainly bulk cargoes on a worldwide basis.  With 75 years of experience and expertise, we are a driven, innovative, and respected organization committed to our employees and customers.

Honesty, integrity, and a respect toward community and environment define our values.

www.fednav.com

Reporting to the Vice-President, Shipowning and Technical Services, the Manager, Owned Fleet is responsible for ensuring the efficient and safe working of the fleet of vessels under his/her direct supervision.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING | THE ROLE

• Maintains responsibility for the day-to-day coordination between various in-house departments, the shipowning group and the shipmanagers for all matters pertaining to the fleet;

• Liaises very closely and in a trustful manner with their colleagues in the Shipowning / Technical Services department with true ONE TEAM spirit;

• Oversees annual financial budget setting, participates in quarterly financial and technical performance reviews;

• Challenge Vessel Managers to ensure that Fednav’s money is spent intelligently and scrutinizes unforeseen expenses;

• Translates Fednav’s commercial fleet strategy into technical deliverables, shares these goals with the fleet and shipmanagers and identifies deviations;

• Has the capability to think outside the box and thedrive to identify room for improvement and propose relevant solutions;

• Has a vision for future big picture fleet concepts, whilst being detail oriented enough to ensure that each ship is constantly delivering a higher standard;

• Identifies and reports key issues on ships under their responsibility to the Vice-President, Shipowning and Technical Services and keeps them abreast of relevant problems;

• Shares best practices with crew on board and during crew seminars;

• Maintains best practices and engineering solutions on board in collaboration with the shipmanagers;

• Supports Risk Management in pursuing insurance claims;

• Assists in the planning and execution of major repairs/dry dockings for the vessels;

• Ensures investigation and proper follow-up for all incidents that occurred on board ships and takes preventative measures against reoccurrence;

• Performs inspections of Fednav’s owned fleet looking over technical, behaviour and commercial elements. Ensuring that ship side teams understand and are committed to Fednav’s brand promise of “Delivering a Higher Standard”;

• Performs pre-purchase inspections resulting in clear and fact based recommendations to Fednav’s senior management whether or not to pursue vessel acquisition opportunities.

   

WHAT YOU BRING | THE PERSON

The ideal candidate holds:

• Or has held a superintendent/fleet manager role in a ship owning / management company.

• Navigation or Marine Engineering Certificate of Competence or relevant alternative shore side experience that can be considered as equivalent.

   

The preferred candidate has:

• A self-starter, driven and proactive approach. Doesn’t wait for things to happen;

• Numerate and analytical skills combined with strong interpersonal competencies;

• Superior verbal and written communication ability to identify and tackle relevant issues;

• A demonstrated creativity in his/her work and approach to challenges;

• Effective decision-making ability;

• The ability to develop and maintain excellent business relationships with internal and external partners;

• English proficiency;

• Good computer skills and knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.

Must be available to work outside regular business hours.

Are you a returning applicant?