Growing company! Downtown/on-site daily. Excellent salary and benefits paid 100% for family.
General Description:
The Marine Assurance Specialist is expected to add value to and shall provide support to staff, contractors, suppliers, and other personnel involved in the safe operation of the marine facilities at LNG export terminals.
The successful Marine Assurance Specialist will apply their marine operations, vetting and nautical knowledge to support all aspects of marine operations including marine assurance, ship-to-shore interface, and provide support to on-site Marine Coordinators.
Reporting Lines:
- Marine Assurance Specialist reports to the Marine Assurance Manager.
Responsibilities:
Carry out marine assurance on LNG tankers nominated to call at LNG terminals, including:
- Work closely with LNG terminal marine departments
- Knowledge and experience of marine assurance, including vetting, terminal compatibility and mooring analysis
- Complete LNG Tanker vetting for nominated vessels, including reviewing SIRE report, Port State and USCG inspection reports etc. against vetting standards.
- Have a thorough understanding of terminal compatibility and the process involved when reviewing an LNG tanker against terminal requirements
- Have a thorough understanding of Optimoor, including the ability to develop berth and vessel models and databases, complete mooring analysis for nominated LNG tanker
- Maintain LNG tanker records for all LNG tankers nominate and calling terminals.
- Help in the development of a vessel database to store records related to each vessel.
- Work with LNG terminal marine and Commercial Ops team to ensure safe, efficient, reliable, cost effective and environmentally responsible cargo transfer operations
- Provide marine and technical assistance to Ship Management team
- Deliver effective, fit for purpose marine advice, support and problem solving based on best practices, reasonable care standards and due diligence models
- Operate safely within Industry, Company, National and International standards and regulatory requirements
- Assist in reviewing and updating marine operations documents
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree, Nautical Science or Engineering from a maritime academy or accredited university or marine school, or
- Merchant Marine Officer Experience, Licensed – Chief Mate or 2nd Mate or 1stAssistant Engineer, or
- Marine experience with the USCG, having knowledge of LNG tankers, COC inspections, LNG terminal inspections etc.
Experience:
- Experience in vetting, terminal compatibility and mooring analysis
- SIRE accreditation is not essential but would be an advantage
- Experience in sea and shore side experience terminal experience
- Working on LNG tanker, LPG and oil tankers (preferred)
- Knowledge of LNG tankers and terminal, as well as experience dealing with LNG tanker operations
Skills:
- An acute sensitivity to safety issues in a hazardous environment,
- Ability to work in fast passed, dynamic environment
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of an organization
- Organized, planning skills, able to manage multiple activities and programs in timely fashion and with a high degree of accuracy, able to meet work deadlines.
- Problem solving and analytical skills.
- Must maintain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) card
Work Conditions:
- Job is performed in an office and industrial plant environment.
- National travel can be expected.
- Must be able to board a ship via a gangway, climb to the top of a tank (200+ steps), scale vertical steel ladder up to forty feet or more in height and lift and move objects weighting up to 30 pounds.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee will work indoors & outdoors, and be exposed to year-around weather conditions, ocean environment, and noise. There is a considerable amount of outdoor activities involved.
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