Manager - Dredging Operations

Adani Ports and SEZ; Thiruvananthapuram; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Adani Ports and SEZ seeks an experienced dredge professional to lead harbour projects with TSHD operations, planning, scheduling, and mobilization.

You will manage daily dredging performance, optimise parameters, ensure compliance with design and HSE standards, coordinate with surveyors, Master and CE, and deliver complete project closeout with lessons learned and documentation.

Qualifications

• Dredge Master Grade 1 or Dredge Mate with TSHD sailing and shore project management experience.
• M.Tech in Harbour and Dredging with TSHD project experience; or Civil Engineer with TSHD project experience.

Responsibilities

• Plan projects: select dredger, schedule, mobilization, and coordinate crew and equipment.
• Oversee daily TSHD operations, optimise dredging parameters, monitor production.
• Ensure HSE at site.
• Manage contract terms, BOQ, and progress.
• Coordinate crew, vessel, and maintenance with Master and CE.
• Prepare reports and close‑out documentation.
• Ensure final survey meets contract requirements and demobilise.

Skills

Strategic Orientation

Entrepreneurial Mind‑Set

Stake Holder Partnering

Outcome Orientation

Transformation Mind‑Set

Innovation Focus

Team Orientation

Employee Development

Role‑specific Competencies

Education

Dredge Master Grade 1

Dredge Mate with TSHD experience

M.Tech Harbour and Dredging

Civil Engineer with TSHD experience

Job description

Responsibilities

• Project Planning: Do complete planning for the project, select the dredger, scheduling and mobilization plan; coordinate crew, spares, consumables, and survey equipment.
• Technical and Operational Management: Oversee daily TSHD operations, optimise dredging parameters, monitor production, ensure compliance with dredging design, troubleshoot issues, and coordinate with surveyors to validate daily, interim, pre, and post surveys.
• HSE: Implement and enforce HSE at site.
• Contract Management: Ensure work executed per contract terms and BOQ, monitor progress and benchmark with the plan.
• Crew and Vessel Management: Coordinate with Master and CE, ensure competent crew manning as per safe manning and project requirements, and coordinate maintenance schedule with Technical.
• Reporting and Documentation: Prepare DPR, weekly/monthly reports, and maintain project close‑out documentation.
• Project Closeout: Ensure final survey meets contract requirements, finalize quantities, claims, and completion certificates, prepare lessons learned, and demobilise efficiently from site upon project completion.

Competencies

• Strategic Orientation
  • Connect the dots, visualise the big picture, and recognise long‑term implications of today’s actions while making decisions.
  • Understand organisation dynamics, industry trends, and financial data, and translate this knowledge to articulate business strategies.
  • Integrate the interests of the environment, society, and communities into actions, decisions, and business strategies.
• Entrepreneurial Mind‑Set
  • Take initiative to spot medium and short‑term business opportunities and capitalize on them with speed and agility.
  • Be comfortable in ambiguous situations, present oneself with conviction and poise, and recover from setbacks with increased energy.
• Stake Holder Partnering
  • Cultivate and leverage formal and informal networks and enduring relationships with stakeholders through respect, trust, and empathy.
  • Build strong relationships with existing and potential customers, discover customer needs, take ownership for customer issues, and strive to deliver a superior customer experience by taking continuous feedback.
• Outcome Orientation
  • Execute tasks efficiently and safely through effective time management, planning, process efficiency, and product/service quality.
  • Analytically review risks, problems, and issues by assessing their potential impact and developing robust contingency plans.
  • Act as a custodian of the organisation by taking complete ownership of goals and desired outcomes.
• Transformation Mind‑Set
  • Continuously update one’s knowledge and skills in line with changing business dynamics and operating mechanisms, and apply the learning to perform in new or changing contexts.
  • Challenge the status quo, create a business case for change, align stakeholders, and manage challenges of an uncertain environment.
• Innovation Focus
  • Leverage technology to win in the market.
  • Build an agile organisation (fluid structure, nimble processes) that responds rapidly to business challenges and market demands.
• Team Orientation
  • Inspire a common vision by fostering teamwork, participating actively in the accomplishment of team objectives, and leading from the front by walking the talk.
  • Encourage differences in opinion and deal appropriately with conflict.
• Employee Development
  • Unlock and channel employees’ potential, provide timely feedback, address performance issues, and actively sponsor their development.
  • Build a work environment where high performance and meritocracy are valued.
• Role‑specific Competencies
  • Minimise dredger delays, stoppages, and breakdowns.
  • Geo‑technical data management, feedback, and discipline; propose improvements.
  • Contractual compliance, vendor invoicing, payables, and milestones.
  • Follow and maintain QHSE standards and production.

Qualifications

• Educational Qualifications: Dredge Master Grade 1 or Dredge Mate with sailing experience on TSHDs and shore experience as Project Manager; or M.Tech in Harbour and Dredging with TSHD project experience; or Civil Engineer with TSHD project experience.
• Relevant Experience: 10 to 15 years of technical, functional, and/or leadership experience or specific exposure.