Offshore Maintenance Manager

MSSC (Marine Society & Sea Cadets); Gosport; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

A maritime organization in Gosport is seeking an Offshore Maintenance Manager to ensure the capability and safety of its offshore vessels. The ideal candidate will have significant engineering experience in the maritime sector, with a strong focus on maintenance management and safety. Responsibilities include managing defects, maintenance packages, and supporting engineers. This full-time role offers a competitive salary and various employee benefits.

Benefits

25 days holiday, increasing with service

Life assurance

Private medical insurance

Pension with employer contribution

Employee development opportunities

Qualifications

• Significant experience in maritime sector roles.
• Ideally broad engineering experience across mechanical, electrical, and electronic disciplines.
• Health and fitness to obtain industry medical certification (ENG1).

Responsibilities

• Support in identifying defects and safety shortcomings.
• Oversee and track winter maintenance work packages.
• Develop and manage the Safety Management System.

Skills

Maritime engineering experience

Health and safety knowledge

Maintenance management

Electronic Planned Maintenance Systems

Communication skills

Education

HNC or similar professional qualification

Job description

Location: Gosport, Hampshire.

Contract: Full time, permanent

Salary: £36,500 - £39,000 per annum, dependent upon experience

Closing Date: 7 October 2024

About The Role

The Offshore Maintenance Manager will have a key role in delivering the capability and availability of MSSC's offshore vessels to provide sea-going experience for cadets and in ensuring the safety for all personnel on board. The main purpose of the role is to provide support with the engineering management and maintenance of MSSC's offshore vessels.

Responsibilities

• Providing day to day support in identifying defects and safety shortcomings, determining solutions, assisting in rectification or organising cost effective professional repairs at advantageous prices and obtaining replacement parts
• Producing, overseeing and tracking (technically and financially) the winter maintenance work packages for the fleet
• Progressive development of MSSC\'s Safety Management System, as related to the technical running and management of each offshore vessel
• Assisting the engineer officers of MSSC\'s vessels with maintenance tasks
• Managing records to support and evidence MSSC\'s maintenance programme
• Acting as an occasional relief engineer on board any of the three larger vessels

Requirements

• Engineer with HNC or similar professional qualification with significant experience in the maritime sector in seagoing and shore support roles. Areas of experience would include health and safety, marine equipment operation, engineering maintenance, refit planning and execution
• Ideally a broad engineering experience across the mechanical, electrical and electronic disciplines. Knowledge of typical small commercial or recreational vessel machinery, control, navigation and communications systems and their integration
• Experience in using and managing Electronic Planned Maintenance Systems
• Experience of routine and effective liaison with ship and shore staff, external authorities, suppliers and contractors
• Health and fitness necessary to obtain and industry recognised medical certification (ENG1)

Desirable

• Power and sail background ideally across a variety of vessels including those
• Experience with maintaining vessels in Lloyd\'s or other recognised Classification Society Rules and Flag State "Code of Practice."
• Experience working with young people

Benefits

• 25 working days pro rata of paid holiday per annum, plus public and bank holidays observed in England and Wales, increasing to 29 days after two years\' service
• Life assurance (4x salary) for those who opt to join the pension scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Pension (employer contribution up to 10%)
• Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling
• Employee development: We are investing in our employees\' development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential
• National staff conference: All employees come together once a year to reflect on the past year and celebrate success at our offsite staff conference. This is a great opportunity to listen to employees\' views, and for employees to network, share information and socialise

If you are interested in this Offshore Maintenance Manager vacancy, please apply now!

Additional Information

MSSC positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. Equity, diversity, and inclusion really matter to us, so we can best serve our beneficiaries from every community. We work to ensure a fair and consistent recruitment process and aim to be a charity where diversity of experience, identity and skills are valued and welcomed. MSSC is an equal opportunities employer.

We recognise our responsibilities to safeguard and protect the young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work. We do all we can to promote their health, safety and wellbeing, and we expect our staff to share this commitment and work in line with safeguarding policy, the MSSC\'s values and ethos of inclusivity. We adhere to safer recruitment practices and therefore employment is subject to detailed pre-employment checks for successful candidates, including references and criminal disclosure checks and the completion of a disclosure questionnaire.

All successful applicants are required to attend safeguarding training and undergo a criminal record check.