The Role
The Chief Engineer on the cruise ship ensures machinery maintenance, compliance with safety and environmental standards, and effective team leadership while managing engine room operations.
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Job Opening: Chief Engineer – Cruise Ship
Vessel Type: 290 m Length, 85,000 GT / 335 m Lenght ,150,000 GT | Azipod Propulsion
Contract Type: Rotational
Location: Worldwide Itineraries
We are seeking a skilled and experienced Chief Engineer to join our cruise ship fleet.
Key Responsibilities:
· Ensuring preventive maintenance and repairing machinery, avoiding delays on sea passage or during the turnaround of the vessel. The Chief Engineer shall work closely with all departments in this respect;
· Reporting directly to the Master and the Technical Manager any matters affecting Quality, Safety & Health, Environmental protection and Energy Efficiency;
· Ensuring close liaison and cooperation with all department heads to facilitate smooth and efficient vessel operations;
· Ensuring that the Planned Maintenance System (PMS) is updated and operated in compliance with Company’s requirements;
· Ensuring that Engine Officers and Crew are familiar with the Company's Management System;
· Motivating the Engine Officers and Crew in executing their duties according to the Company's Management System;
· Ensuring that a robust Safety & Health culture and Environmental and Energy Efficiency awareness is encouraged and maintained;
· Providing the Master with a positive report prior to each departure, that the vessel is ready to proceed to sea, with respect to the main and auxiliary machinery and the responsibilities of the Engineering section;
· Ensuring close co-operation with the Staff Captain with particular regard to the safe loading of the vessel, stress and stability;
· Responsible for safe and efficient fuel oil, diesel oil and lube oil bunkering operations;
· Ordering spares and repairs (including dry-dock specifications) as required via the Technical Manager; Ensuring that activities are well planned, organized and safeguards established against all identified risks;
· Issuing appropriate orders and instructions in a clear and simple manner and verify that specified requirements are observed;
· Ensuring that corrective and preventive actions are implemented timely and effectively;
· Reviewing the Company’s Management System on a regular basis and reporting to the Master proposals for improvement.
· Furthermore, in accordance with the requirements of the Company’s environmental procedures the Chief Engineer is responsible for:
· Ensuring the Engineering Department is in compliance with all applicable environmental legislation and regulatory controls as well as Company’s Environmental & Energy Management System;
· Ensuring that all engine room personnel have appropriate training on environmental & energy policies and procedures, including but not limited to training on the operation and use of pollution prevention equipment, bilge and ballast pumps, Incinerator, Sewage Treatment Plant and Oily Water Separator (OWS);
· Ensuring that all engine room personnel have appropriate training to make entries in the Oil Record Book, the Garbage Record Book, the Engine Room Bilge, Oil Residue and Sludge Tank Sounding Log or any other logs required by the Company environmental procedures, or any other maritime environmental protection and energy efficiency requirements;
· Ensuring that the Incinerator, the Oily Water Separator (incl. the Oil Content Meter) the Sewage Treatment Plant and any other pollution prevention equipment installed onboard are operational and tested in accordance with the relevant Machinery Space Operation Procedures. Inform immediately the Technical Manager, the and the Designated Person Ashore (DPA) if there is a malfunction of the above listed equipment;
· Ensuring that the Chief Engineer’s handover notes include an environmental component and description of the current status of operation, maintenance, and repair, for the Incinerator, Oily Water Separator (OWS), Oil Content Meter (OCM) and any other pollution prevention procedures or equipment, the status of spare parts for the aforementioned equipment, and an estimation of the day-to-day bilge loads and accumulations; Entries in the handover report must be descriptive, not solely answers marked as “Yes” or “No” or “Good”;
· Ensuring that all Engine Room records, soundings and tank measurements are accurate and recorded truthfully. Rough notes, sounding logs and/or other documents used by engine room personnel to record tank soundings and monitor tank levels are maintained for one year, and such notes are dated even if managed on scrap paper;
· The completeness, accuracy and readiness of the Oil Record Book and authenticating the accuracy of each entry;
· Working closely with the Environmental & Energy Officer to communicate the Company’s environmental objectives and targets to the Engineering Department, encouraging their participation and contribution;
· Reporting to the Master, Technical Manager and the Designated Person Ashore (DPA) all instances where inadequate response associated with spare parts delivery, maintenance and repair or other factors, caused conditions leading to excessive production in shipboard waste streams;
· Ensuring that bunkering procedures are implemented and bunker samples and bunkering records are properly kept and maintained onboard as explained in the relevant Machinery Space Operation Procedures. Inform immediately the Master, Technical Manager and the Designated Person Ashore (DPA) if contaminated fuel is received onboard.
Qualifications & Experience:
•Valid STCW certification and Chief Engineer (Unlimited) license.
•Minimum 3 years’ experience as Chief Engineer on passenger vessels of equivalent tonnage.
•In-depth knowledge of Azipod propulsion technology and marine engineering systems.
•Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to motivate and lead a multinational crew.
•Proficient in English (spoken and written); additional languages a plus.
•Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.
•Experience with energy efficiency measures and environmentally friendly technologies onboard.
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Skills Required
- Valid STCW certification and Chief Engineer (Unlimited) license
- Minimum 3 years' experience as Chief Engineer on passenger vessels of equivalent tonnage
- In-depth knowledge of Azipod propulsion technology and marine engineering systems
- Strong leadership and team management skills
- Proficient in English (spoken and written)
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities
- Experience with energy efficiency measures and environmentally friendly technologies
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The Company
What We Do
Columbia Shipmanagement (CSM) is a world-class ship management company with over 45 years of experience providing maritime services within the shipping industry. They offer technical management, crew management, commercial operations, and digital maritime solutions.
