QHSE Superintendent

Synergy Marine Group; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Synergy Marine Group is seeking a seasoned Master Mariner to oversee QHSE compliance and audit activities across ships and offices. You will coordinate Management of Change for vessel takeovers, manage risk assessments, and ensure ISM/ISPS alignment.

The role includes monitoring security updates and preparing audit reports for senior management. The position requires extensive experience in internal audits, mooting MOC meetings, and liaising with fleet stakeholders to drive timely compliance and

Qualifications

• Masters - FG required for eligibility.
• Sailed as Master onboard ocean-going vessels.
• Experience coordinating Management of Change for new vessel takeovers.
• Experience coordinating MoC for vessel handovers to ship owners.
• Proven involvement in MoC meetings and documentation timelines.
• Auditing experience: internal observations, corrective actions, closure.
• Capable of incorporating new risk assessments into databases.
• Ability to assess hot-work risks and escalate high-risk tasks.
• Monitoring security reports and Ship Security Plan references.
• Familiar with ISM/ISPS reviews and vessel communications.
• Managing CMS desk alerts, LARPs, and NM sections for sharing.
• Usage of DCR Portal to review manuals, forms, and changes.

Responsibilities

• Plan and participate in internal audits of ships and offices.
• Coordinate MoC activities for vessel takeovers and handovers.
• Review risk assessments and update relevant databases.
• Evaluate hot-work risk and provide safety comments.
• Monitor ship security reports and update SMT.
• Prepare responses to ISM/ISPS SF03/SF03A elements and circulate.
• Visit ships as per Audit Calendar and prepare audit reports.
• Lead QHSE campaigns with actionable items and closure follow-up.
• Track and share security-related information with SMT.
• Review DCRs, manuals, and changes in the portal with stakeholders.

Skills

Ocean-going Master

Management of Change (MoC)

Vessel handover coordination

Internal audits

Risk assessment & review

ISM/ISPS knowledge

Audit planning & reporting

Ship security monitoring

Security risk monitoring

DCR portal usage

MOC meeting facilitation

Fleet takeover coordination

Incident & near-miss review

Education

Master Mariner (FG)

Tools

DCR Portal

Job description

The purpose of the job is to ensure that updated standards required to operate the ships with respect to Quality, Health Safety, Security & Environment objectives are available for all internal stakeholders. That is to provide support to vessels with adequate process and procedures for their routine and emergency operations. This also involves maintaining repository of ‘Hazard Identification and Mitigation’. To monitor the QHSE trends in the company and prepare timely reports for the decision making of the senior management and for sharing with various internal and external stake holders. This job is entrusted with active involvement in planning of timely internal audits of ships and various office departments and to carry out the same.

The job is also entrusted with participating in external audits of the company to meet the international standards of operating ships and to obtain certifications for the same.

E ligibility Criteria:

• Masters - FG
• Sailed as Master onboard Ocean-going vessels.
• Coordination of Management of Change new vessel takeover in the fleet
• Coordination of Management of Change for vessel handover to the ship owners
• Participate in MOC meetings for vessel takeover and handover. Keep track of documentation and timelines required for the initial takeover of the vessel. Advise CMS executive at the appropriate time.
• Internal Audit Observations, corrective actions, and final closure.
• On receiving a new Risk Assessment include it in the Risk Assessment Database after review.
• Evaluate the risk of Hot Work by reviewing the proposal and providing comments for safely carrying out the task. Flagging the high risk tasks for extensive review of senior management.
• Monitor Security reports received from various sources and share it with the Ship Management Team (SMT). Review the Base Document of Ship Security Plan and park it for use by SMT.
• Read the ISM ISPS review SF03, SF03A sent by vessels. Prepare a response for each element and send to each vessel by email.
• Receive data dump of magazine ‘Reflection’ from CMS Executive; Prepare CMS Desk Alert, select award winning LARPs and Near Miss; review sections of NM, Accident/Damage/Injury/ Best Practices; review LFI; add new regulations section and send for peer review.
• DCR Portal is used to manage DCRs. Manuals, Checklists, Forms are reviewed basis DCRs in the portal. Discussions caried out with stakeholders. Document changes are carried out with changes highlighted.
• Visit the ships as per nomination in Internal Audit Calendar. To liaise with vessels for the schedule. To keep the travel documents updated. Visit the ship and carryout the audit as per Audit Checklist. Prepare the report and submit in internal audit module.
• Review the drill planner to ensure Ship Shore drills are carried out with a maximum variety of owners, vessel types and distributed scenarios.
• To carry out QHSE campaigns. Create the campaign guidance and instruction material. Prepare actionable item sheet for submission by vessels. Launch the campaign. Review and analyze the collated responses. Share the analysis with vessels. Send the closure mail of the campaign.
• Track security related information from various websites. Share the update with SMT by means of email.
• For Management of Change: Fill form TE-19 and prepare the task sheet after discussion with stake holders. Monitor the progress of the task sheet to ensure that the change is carried out smoothly within the stipulated date of enforcement.
• TMSA elements submission reviewed by comparing it with our manuals, policies and correct references.