Maritime Industrial Standard Operator

Natural Factors; Calgary; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Maritime Industrial Standard Operator to enhance safety and compliance within its Terminal Pilotage Operations Division. This role involves verifying maritime regulations, analyzing safety violations, and collaborating with marine professionals to ensure operational excellence. With a focus on continuous improvement and adherence to international standards, this position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to large-scale maritime operations while working in a dynamic and challenging environment. If you have a strong maritime background and a passion for safety and compliance, this role is ideal for you.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of maritime experience with 5+ years as senior officer on tankers.
• Strong knowledge of international maritime regulations and standards.

Responsibilities

• Verify breaches of maritime conventions and regulations.
• Analyze tankship safety violations and formulate claims for additional services.

Skills

Maritime Studies

Marine Engineering

Regulatory Compliance

Budget Management

Technical Writing

Education

Bachelor's in Maritime Studies

Master Mariner Certificate

High National Diploma in Nautical Science

Job description

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a special position in the global energy industry. We are one of the world’s largest producers of hydrocarbon energy and chemicals, with among the lowest Upstream carbon intensities of any major producer. With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Overview

We are seeking a Maritime Industrial Standard Operator to join our Terminal Pilotage Operations Division.

The Terminal Pilotage Operations Division is responsible for providing a professional pilotage service, vessel traffic management system and support services at all Saudi Aramco Oil Ports and Terminals for the purpose of expediting the seaborne export and import of crude oils and hydrocarbon-based products in a safe, efficient, cost effective and environmentally sound manner in accordance with shipping industry’s best.

Your primary role is to analyze tankship’s safety violations defects and ship related incidents, verifying breaches of applicable international maritime Organization’s conventions, Marine Industry Standards, Port Rules and Regulations. Formulate claims with full supporting documentation for additional marine assistance services provided that is beyond the contractual obligation of Saudi Aramco.

Key Responsibilities

As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:

• Verify breaches of applicable International Maritime Organization’s Conventions, Marine Industry Standards and Port Rules & Regulations.
• Generate follow up telexes and correspondence with ship principals.
• Review local, international marine guidelines and standards as related to Terminal Pilotage Operations Division.
• Monitor and verify budget accounts for the Division.
• Responsible for assisting the supervisor in continuous updating of the Port Booklet and other relevant publications.
• Analyze Marine Safety Statistics of Saudi Aramco Ports and Terminals.
• Formulate claims with full supporting documentation for additional marine assistance services provided that is beyond the contractual obligations of Saudi Aramco.
• Responsible for the initiation of telex’s dispatched to ship principals and evaluation of telexes received from ship principals in respect to highlighted concerns on ship operations.
• Analyze tankship’s safety violations defects and ship related incidents.
• Exercise controls of verification for all items associated with budgetary control of the division.
• Generate follow up telexes and correspondence with ship principals.
• Review jointly with Marine Engineer related Marine/Terminal projects.
• Deputize for Supervisor of unit when required. Maintain a readiness to deputize at International Marine Conferences. Monitor and Verify budget accounts for the Division.
• Attend Safety meetings with operational members of the division.
• Provide where applicable technical support and carry out any other assignment as required.
• Responsible for formulating claims to recover Saudi Aramco’s marine services expended upon additional marine assistance and oil spill cleanup costs incurred as a result of services beyond the contractual requirements.
• Research material, documentation and technical data in order to support Terminal Operations by providing advice when relevant general instructions fail to satisfactorily address a particular problem.

Minimum Requirements

• As the successful candidate you will hold a Bachelor’s degree in BS in Maritime Studies, or a High National Diploma (HND) in Nautical Science/Marine Engineering along with a Master Mariner (Class I)/Chief Engineer Certificate of Competency from a recognized and approved program.
• You must have Minimum of 10 years’ experience, which includes a minimum of 5-year experience as a senior officer onboard tanker and/or Gas (LPG) carrier.
• You must have Knowledge and experience with international regulatory body requirements, classification standards, marine/mechanical engineering practices, specifications and/or rules.
• Written and spoken English with an extensive marine technical vocabulary in order to communicate effectively with other marine professionals including marine lawyers and industrial professionals. Business letter and report writing skills are essential is also necessary.
• Demonstrate, skill and discretion in dealing with outside organizations is also necessary.

Working environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.