Marine Engineer

Gold Group; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Gold Group is seeking a Maritime Engineering Technical Support Officer for a 6‑month on-site contract in the Portsmouth area. The role covers vessel performance, maintenance planning, and regulatory compliance oversight across platforms.

Responsibilities include directing Chief Engineers, managing supplier relations, drafting contract specs, and applying fleet-wide best practices based on incident learnings and port visits.

Qualifications

• Extensive marine engineering experience across vessels.
• Experience coordinating maintenance and performance improvements.
• Knowledge of class, flag, IMO, SOLAS, MARPOL, ISM Code and ISO.
• Strong project management and supplier liaison skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide overview of vessel performance and maintenance forward planning; escalate to senior managers.
• Offer technical direction to ensure compliance with statutory rules and rectify defects.
• Inform on regulatory code changes and advise operators' superintendents.
• Act as single point of contact for Vessel Managers across platforms.
• Direct Chief Engineers on actions during vessel issues using expert analysis.
• Maximise vessel availability through monitoring and advising on usage.
• Manage supplier relationships and ensure compliance for maintenance work.
• Draft technical requirements for contracts during annual maintenance periods.
• Apply technical expertise to identify remedies unresolved by Chief Engineers.
• Advise on commercial routes to rectify issues with appropriate approvals.
• Incorporate lessons learned to promote fleet-wide best practices.
• Review vessel operating standards via rides and port visits; suggest improvements.
• Direct Maritime HQ Finance Officer on work orders across platforms.
• Conduct material assurance visits with Health and Safety to ensure policy compliance.

Skills

Marine engineering

Project management

Compliance knowledge

Vessel operations

Education

STCW certificate of competency STCW III/2 or STCW III/3

Job description

This is a 6 month contract that is fully onsite located in the Portsmouth area

Maritime Engineering Technical Support Officer responsible for:

• Provide an overview of vessel operational performance and forward look of vessel maintenance planning, escalating issues to senior managers and presenting solutions.
• Provide technical direction to maintain overall compliance within statuary Class and Flag State rules, rectify defects and identify fleet wide performance issues and continuous improvements across all platforms.
• Keeping abreast of Regulatory Code changes and evaluate their impact, liaising with operators' superintendents regarding compliance issues as appropriate. To include informing other SEO's of their responsibilities as Commanders of these vessels.
• Single point of contact for all Vessel Managers (Commanders/Chief Engineers/OiC's) across platforms to monitor vessel usage and machinery servicing requirements both planned and unplanned.
• Directing and advising Chief Engineers on appropriate action to take when vessels encounter issues, using expert knowledge to identify likely causes and advise on any investigative work.
• Responsible for maximising vessel availability by managing monitoring and advising on vessel usage.
• Liaise with and manage relationships with suppliers, including the delivery of work which meets HO Commercial compliancy rules for all planned, unplanned maintenance and defect rectification works across platforms.
• Oversee drafting of technical requirements and specification for inclusion into contracts of the annual maintenance periods of all platforms
• Apply technical expertise acquired through experience and training to identify remedies to issues which Chief Engineers on vessels have been unable to solve.
• Apply commercial knowledge to identify the quickest and most appropriate route to rectify issues when specialist support is required, whilst remaining compliant with commercial process and or seeking exceptions where needed
• Apply lessons learned from incidents and issues across the fleet. Ensuring best practices are adopted
• Reviewing vessel operational and maintenance standards by means of ship rides and port visits. Advise on potential improvements. Identify and evaluate non-conformance and corrections.
• Direct Maritime HQ Finance Officer on relevant work, including raising Purchase Orders for works undertaken across all platforms.
• Undertake Material Assurance visits on an opportunity basis in conjunction with the Health and Safety Team to advise and direct operational commanders and crew and to ensure all platforms are maintained and operated in accordance with Command policy and Regulatory code.

Key Experience

• MARINE ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
• PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
• STCW certificate of competency STCW III/2 or STCW III/3.
• CHIEF ENGINEER OR EQUIVALENT, MARINE ENGINEER
• Knowledge of working in an engineering capacity, with or on maritime vessels (ideally different vessels)
• Strong experience and working knowledge of Class, Flag, IMO, SOLAS, MARPOL, the ISM Code and ISO requirements