Port / Marine Engineer - MEO Class I

Reliance Retail; Jamnagar; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Reliance Retail seeks a Fleet Operations Manager to oversee the safe operations and maintenance of vessels and floating equipment, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and internal standards. You will coordinate dry docking, inspections, budgeting, procurement, and safety processes, while liaising with statutory bodies and external vendors to keep fleets certified and ready for service.

This role requires hands-on leadership in asset management and a strong focus on safety,

Responsibilities

• Oversee and ensure the safe operations and maintenance of all assigned vessels and floating equipment in line with schedules and regulatory requirements.
• Assist in formulation of operation and maintenance plans for assets and ensure day-to-day execution in line with standards and regulations.
• Implement new initiatives/projects per policies to meet future asset operation requirements.
• Provide inputs for improvements in business processes, specifications and best practices.
• Monitor and ensure compliance with renewal of licenses required for vessel operations and maintain hull and machinery insurance active at all times.
• Ensure crew qualification and licensing as per statutory guidelines.
• Conduct periodic inspection audits of electrical/mechanical systems and maintain preventive maintenance schedules.
• Arrange timely availability of spares to avoid delays in maintenance; supervise external vendors for repairs.
• Coordinate periodic visits of legal surveyors and respond to queries; visit flotillas for inspections to ensure standard maintenance procedures.
• Supervise dry docking to defined timelines; coordinate with surveyors to define work scope and ensure readiness for surveys; maintain defective machinery lists.
• Coordinate with statutory bodies for certification surveys and ensure timely licenses.
• Prepare annual capex and O&M budgets; issue service orders and supervise procurement; optimize spares inventory to reduce costs.
• Monitor onboard safety systems and report violations or near misses through government portals within timelines.
• Receive bunker, sample activities, and ensure data recording on portals; register with Swachh Sagar portal.

Job description

Purpose of the Role

To oversee and ensure the safe operations and maintenance of all the assigned vessels, floating equipment(s) as per their schedule, including their compliance with all the legal and regulatory requirements

Key Responsibilities

List of responsibilities attached to the role are documented below. These responsibilities are representative and the role holder is also responsible for any other job assigned by the superior authorities from time to time. This section in not intended to be an exhaustive listing of all activities done by the role holder. It should capture only the key responsibilities of the role

Policies, Processes and Procedures -

• - Assist in formulation of operation and maintenance plan for various assets, and ensure day-to-day execution in line with function standards regulations
• - Implement new initiatives/ projects as per established policies to meet future requirements of asset operations
• - Provide inputs for improvements in business processes, specifications and best practices

Legal Compliance -

• - Monitor and ensure compliance against all the regulatory requirements related to renewal of various licenses required for vessel operations as per established guidelines by various statutory bodies
• - Ensure all the assigned ships have an active insurance including the hull and machinery insurance all the time to avoid any organizational costs in case of unseen fatalities
• - Monitor to comply that all the manpower/crew members onboard the ship are qualified and licensed as per stipulated statutory guidelines

Inspection Maintenance -

• - Conduct the periodic inspection audit of different electrical mechanical systems of the ships and ensure their maintenance as per the preventive maintenance schedule
• - Arrange the timely availability of different spares against the requirement to avoid any delays in the preventive maintenance of ships
• - Supervise the repair/maintenance work carried out by external vendors/manufacturers
• - Coordinate for the periodic visits of various legal surveyors for different vessels and clarify their queries/concerns
• - Visit each flotilla as per the agreed frequency for inspection and ensuring compliance with the standard maintenance procedure

Dry Docking -

• - Supervise to ensure the dry docking for all the floating assets is done as per defined time period
• - Coordinate with legal surveyors to define the work scope for dry docking
• - Examine and ensure the preparedness for various legal surveys and inspections to be carried out during dry docking
• - Maintain the dry dock defective machinery list in collaboration with the team
• - Coordinate with various statutory bodies for different certification surveys and ensure that all the ships are certified timely and licenses granted to avoid any interruption in operations

Budget and Inventory -

• - Prepare the annual capex, operations maintenance budget for various activities such as dry docking, material/services required, surveys etc.
• - Give the service orders and supervise the timely procurement for such raised requests
• - Optimally plan the spares so as to minimize the inventory carrying cost and thus reducing organizational costs

Safety Adherence -

• - Monitor the onboard safety systems on ships and ensure their compliance to agreed protocols while achieving the required documentation
• - Report any safety violations or near misses on government portal within the stipulated timeline

Bunker Management -

• - Receive the bunker and take care of sampling activities
• - Ensure the bunker supplier has completed the data regarding bunker supply on Swachh Sagar portal and collect bunker delivery note for record
• - Access and register with the Swachh Sagar portal and