Chief Engineer -Cruise Ship

Job Opening: Chief Engineer – Cruise Ship

Vessel Type: 290 m Length, 85,000 GT / 335 m Length ,150,000 GT | Azipod Propulsion

Contract Type: Rotational

Location: Worldwide Itineraries

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Chief Engineer to join our cruise ship fleet.

• Ensuring preventive maintenance and repairing machinery, avoiding delays on sea passage or during the turnaround of the vessel. The Chief Engineer shall work closely with all departments in this respect;
• Reporting directly to the Master and the Technical Manager any matters affecting Quality, Safety & Health, Environmental protection and Energy Efficiency;
• Ensuring close liaison and cooperation with all department heads to facilitate smooth and efficient vessel operations;
• Ensuring that the Planned Maintenance System (PMS) is updated and operated in compliance with Company’s requirements;
• Ensuring that Engine Officers and Crew are familiar with the Company's Management System;
• Motivating the Engine Officers and Crew in executing their duties according to the Company's Management System;
• Ensuring that a robust Safety & Health culture and Environmental and Energy Efficiency awareness is encouraged and maintained;
• Providing the Master with a positive report prior to each departure, that the vessel is ready to proceed to sea, with respect to the main and auxiliary machinery and the responsibilities of the Engineering section;
• Ensuring close co-operation with the Staff Captain with particular regard to the safe loading of the vessel, stress and stability;
• Responsible for safe and efficient fuel oil, diesel oil and lube oil bunkering operations;
• Ordering spares and repairs (including dry-dock specifications) as required via the Technical Manager; ensuring that activities are well planned, organized and safeguards established against all identified risks;
• Issuing appropriate orders and instructions in a clear and simple manner and verify that specified requirements are observed;
• Ensuring that corrective and preventive actions are implemented timely and effectively;
• Reviewing the Company’s Management System on a regular basis and reporting to the Master proposals for improvement.
• Furthermore, in accordance with the requirements of the Company’s environmental procedures the Chief Engineer is responsible for:
• Ensuring the Engineering Department is in compliance with all applicable environmental legislation and regulatory controls as well as Company’s Environmental & Energy Management System;
• Ensuring that all engine room personnel have appropriate training on environmental & energy policies and procedures, including but not limited to training on the operation and use of pollution prevention equipment, bilge and ballast pumps, Incinerator, Sewage Treatment Plant and Oily Water Separator (OWS);
• Ensuring that all engine room personnel have appropriate training to make entries in the Oil Record Book, the Garbage Record Book, the Engine Room Bilge, Oil Residue and Sludge Tank Sounding Log or any other logs required by the Company environmental procedures, or any other maritime environmental protection and energy efficiency requirements;
• Ensuring that the Incinerator, the Oily Water Separator (incl. the Oil Content Meter) the Sewage Treatment Plant and any other pollution prevention equipment installed onboard are operational and tested in accordance with the relevant Machinery Space Operation Procedures. Inform immediately the Technical Manager, the and the Designated Person Ashore (DPA) if there is a malfunction of the above listed equipment;
• Ensuring that the Chief Engineer’s handover notes include an environmental component and description of the current status of operation, maintenance, and repair, for the Incinerator, Oily Water Separator (OWS), Oil Content Meter (OCM) and any other pollution prevention procedures or equipment, the status of spare parts for the aforementioned equipment, and an estimation of the day-to-day bilge loads and accumulations;
  Entries in the handover report must be descriptive, not solely answers marked as “Yes” or “No” or “Good”;
• Ensuring that all Engine Room records, soundings and tank measurements are…