Job Description
Rotation: 10 /10 weeks or 3/3 months
Joining: 15th of September 2026
The Staff Chief Engineer is the Deputy of the Chief Engineer, thus, assuming full responsibility for the Engineering section and all engineering and technical matters if the Chief Engineer is incapacitated. The Staff Chief Engineer is responsible for:
· Leading the engineering officers and ratings in executing maintenance and repairs.
· Planning and monitoring preventive maintenance in compliance with agreed intervals and repairing of machinery.
· Ensuring organization and stowage of spares and consumables, and compliance with stock control requirements.
· Supporting the Hotel Services Engineer, in the preventive maintenance of the deck machinery and equipment thus ensuring safe and reliable operations.
· Providing the Safety Manager with the necessary Engineering advice and assistance required to carry out the preventive maintenance, inspection, testing and repair of all safety equipment.
· Working closely with the Safety Manager to assist with the investigation of engineering related accidents and incidents and ensuring a robust Safety & Health culture with the aim to prevent accidents is established.
· Attending the Health Safety and Environment & Energy (HSE) Committee meetings, to ensure Safety, Health and Environmental awareness is encouraged and maintained.
· Leading the development and provision of the Engineering section risk assessments.
· Ensuring that the engineering officers and ratings are familiar with the Company's Management System.
· Motivating the engineering officers and ratings in executing their duties according to the Company's Management System.
· Ensuring that Engineering section activities are well planned, organized and safeguards established against all identified risks.
· Assisting the Chief Engineer as required in overseeing fuel oil, diesel oil bunkering and transfer operations ensuring an efficient and effective cooperation with the barge and/or shore side personnel during all such operations.
· All sludge, bilge, black and grey water discharge operations to shore facilities.
· Ensuring that corrective and preventive actions are implemented in a timely and effective manner.
· Reporting directly to the Chief Engineer occurrences that could either directly or indirectly lead to an adverse effect on Quality, Safety, Health, Environment & Energy, Security operational capability or reliability.
· Reviewing the Company’s Management System on a regular basis and reporting to the Chief Engineer proposals for improvement. Furthermore, in accordance with the requirements of the Company’s environmental & energy procedures, Staff Chief Engineer is responsible for:
· Ensuring complete compliance with the Engineering Requirements addressed in the Machinery Space Operations Procedures.
· Ensuring that the ship’s waste streams are effectively managed in compliance with Company’s Environmental Procedures and any applicable legislation.
· Ensuring that the Staff Chief Engineer’s handover notes include a descriptive environmental compliance component and include information related to the status, handling and discharge of any vessel generated wastes or slops and the operation of the OWS, OCM and Incinerator.
· Ensuring that all blank flanges and potentially removable flanges on all piping systems in the Engine Room, that lead overboard, are sealed.
· Recording properly in the Staff Chief Engineer’s Environmental Seals Log Book (ER-ESLB) all environmental seals used.
· Measuring, monitoring and managing the shipboard machinery space generated wastes on a daily basis.
· Monitoring and managing the condition of HFO, MDO, Bilge and Lube Oil Tanks.
· Monitoring and managing the condition of any equipment having oil-to-sea interface on a daily basis (weather and safety permitting).
· Timely resolving (through repairs and/or applicable Management System procedures) all environmental concerns, such as inoperative or ineffective pollution prevention equipment, waste handling or monitoring equipment, and leakages (stemming from
pump seals, packing glands or line breaks, or due to any other cause) contributing to the accumulations of bilge fluids, oily mixtures and sludge type wastes in the engine room, any other machinery space, or pump room.
· Ensuring that all Engine Room wastes that are subject to special handling requirements (e.g. Hazardous Wastes) are properly managed. The Staff Chief Engineer reports and is accountable to the Chief Engineer.
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