Vessel Manager

About Berge Bulk

Situated within Singapore's vibrant maritime hub, Berge Bulk leads innovation in the shipping industry. Embracing their vision of leading the world towards a zero-carbon future through safe, efficient, and sustainable shipping practices, Berge Bulk is making significant strides in technological advancements. With a goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025, Berge Bulk is actively shaping the future of shipping. This strategic pursuit reflects their commitment to maritime technology leadership.

Berge Bulk’s three key milestones

Berge Bulk has set an ambitious decarbonization timeline which consists of three key milestones…

• Offsetting 100% of Scope-1 carbon emissions from 2025.
• Build and operate a zero-emissions vessel by 2030.
• Achieve zero-emissions fleetwide by 2050.

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Purpose of the Job

Reporting to the Fleet Team Manager, this position serves as a business manager who is responsible for all shipboard performance with regards to safety, technical, operation (fuel) and maintenance. The role holder leads the Ship’s Master and Chief Engineer (i.e. Top2) of the assigned vessels.

Job Accountabilities / Key Responsibilities

• Ensures vessels are operating in compliance with all Maritime safety rules and regulations and Berge Bulk’s Safety Management System (SMS). Actively promotes a safety culture on board on all assigned vessels.
• Manages vetting, PSC and Class performance. Ensure compliance with all relevant international and local regulations and that all vessel certification and surveys for class, flag and international requirements are compiled and maintained. Ensures implementation, follow up and follow through on all corrective/preventive actions.
• Reviews and approves the procurement of all ship-spares and services to be provided to assigned vessels with support from Procurement Team.
• Manages the top 2 and crew matters with the support from the Marine HR Team. Responsible for communicating expectations to Top 2; manages their performance and provides good leadership and support to them.
• Research technical information related to equipment breakdowns and proposes holistic solutions that will improve the long-term performance in the assigned vessels.
• Monitors and analyses ship performance (Fuel, Lub Oil, etc) together with the Top2 on board.
• Works with Commercial and Operations team to ensure compliance with charter-party terms of employment and other commercial concerns.
• Prepares budgets for the yearly operation of assigned ships, surveys, repairs and ad-hoc services/ship-spares within required timelines.
• Monitors and keeps tracks of expenses of assigned vessels against the budget assigned.

Requirements

• Preferably holding a Class I (Chief Engineer or a Ship Captain equivalent) Certificate or any mechanical/electrical engineering degree.
• Required shore-based experience handling vessels of Cape size and above (i.e. Alframax, VLOC or VLCC) and/or Handysize vessels:
• Assistant Vessel Manager - 1 to 3 years’ experience.
• Vessel Manager - At least 3 years’ experience.
• Naval Architecture / Marine Engineering and relevant sailing time.
• Fluent in English
• Good Communication skills

Travel

Based and working remotely from Philippines and the candidate is expected to be able to commute to ships and ports where we operate. Travel to Singapore office for business meeting.

Primary Working Location: Working Remotely from Philippines

Job Title: Vessel Manager

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

Work Arrangement: Remote