Shipmanager

CMA CGM; Marseille; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join CMA CGM Group in Marseille as a Ship Manager, responsible for the operational monitoring of vessel voyages and port operations. You will work with Captains and shore teams to ensure loading plans meet safety rules and Line policy, maintaining safety and efficiency across the journey.

The role requires on-board experience, strong English, and good IT and planning skills, with flexibility for peak times and shifts as needed to support global operations.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree from a Generalist or Mechanical Engineering School or a National Maritime School.
• On-board experience, ideally as a Merchant Navy deck officer, would be a strong asset.
• Familiarity with planning and/or vessel stability calculation software is a plus.
• Fluent in English, both spoken and written.

Responsibilities

• Ensure vessels seaworthiness throughout the voyage in collaboration with Captains/Second Officers.
• Check material equipment for productivity and port turnaround with Terminals and Agents.
• Monitor and manage special loadings (dangerous cargo, Reefers, OOG) according to regulations.
• Evaluate feasibility of Changes of Destination (COD) based on position on board and requests from sales teams.
• Validate Port Call Reports (PCR) from Agents.
• Develop statistics and monitor bunkers consumption.

Skills

Fluent English

IT skills

Education

Postgraduate engineering degree

Tools

Planning software

Stability calculation software

Job description

CMA CGM

Operations - Cargo Flow - Ship Operations

Temporary contract

Full Time

Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global leader in shipping and logistics, serves more than 420 ports around the world on five continents. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a world leader in logistics, and its air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is continually innovating to offer its customers a complete and increasingly efficient range of new shipping, land, air and logistics solutions.

Committed to the energy transition in shipping, and a pioneer in the use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a target to become Net Zero Carbon by 2050.

Through the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group acts in humanitarian crises that require an emergency response by mobilizing the Group’s shipping and logistics expertise to bring humanitarian supplies around the world.

Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs more than 155,000 people worldwide, including 4,000 in Marseilles where its head office is located.

CMA CGM Group has decided to structure and strengthen its R&D approach by creating a Center of Excellence dedicated to Innovation and Research. The center will increase the company’s capacity for technological and scientific innovation necessary to meet its strategic objectives (decarbonization, digitalization…), while generating profitability and ensure a high visibility on the Group’s commitment to industry’s energy transition. It will rely on strategic industrial and academic partners experts in the maritime industry (laboratories, companies, startups, shipyards, etc.).

YOUR ROLE

The Ship Manager position is important in our value chain as you are in relations with both our teams at sea and ashore. Within a shipping line, your role is to ensure the operational monitoring of vessels voyages. You make sure that vessels voyages and port operations go smoothly by establishing the loading plans in compliance with safety rules and through the enforcement of the Line business policy.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

From our head office in Marseille, you ensure, in close cooperation with Captains/Second Officers, the good conditions of vessels seaworthiness throughout the voyage by:

• Checking that all material equipment improving the productivity and port turnaround times is available, in connection with Terminals and Agents, with the different parties of the Line and all operational support teams (Dangerous Cargo Office, Oil Management…).
• Monitoring and managing special loadings: dangerous cargo, Reefers, Out of Gauge (OOG, Breakbulk) according to the international regulations (IMDG code, ISM…), the Group and Line’s instructions.
• Evaluating the feasibility of Changes of Destination (COD) of some cargos according to their position on board, following the request of sales teams, Logistics Department and partners.
• Validating Port Call Reports (PCR) sent by Agents.
• Participating in the development of statistics and ensure the monitoring of bunkers consumption.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• Postgraduate degree from a Generalist or Mechanical Engineering School or a National Maritime School.
• On-board experience, ideally as a Merchant Navy deck officer, would be a strong asset
• Familiarity with planning and/or vessel stability calculation software is a plus.
• Fluent in English, both spoken and written
• Good command of IT tools.
• Proactive, rigorous and organized, with the ability to anticipate operational needs and manage priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Flexible approach of working hours (you may be expected to work on evenings/weekends), compensated by additional time off.

Come along on CMA CGM’s adventure !

Information at a Glance

Rise in motion with CMA CGM Group: where ambition meets opportunity.

Join a global team of nearly 200 nationalities, shaping the future of global trade, moving essential goods, forging newpaths, and pushing boundaries to serve an ever-changing world.

The pace is fast, the challenges are real, but the rewards are greater: growth, purpose, and thechance to make a meaningful impact. Thisis more than a job. It’s a journey on which you rise.

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