PMS (Planned Maintenance System) Manager - London, United Kingdom - Zodiac Maritime

Description

Job Description Zodiac Maritime is an international ship operating company providing a full range of management services for a wide and diverse fleet of commercial ships, spanning containership to tankers, bulk carriers to PCTCs, and a growing orderbook focused on dual-fuel vessels to improve overall fleet energy efficiency.

Headquartered in London's bustling West End, our modern, open-plan offices accommodate a growing team of over 200 people.

With representative offices across Europe and Asia, our shore-based headcount grows as our fleet continues to expand and diversify, as does our dedicated crew of over 6,500 seafarers.

This is an exciting time for the company as we continue to grow and modernise our fleet and operations.

Position PMS (Planned Maintenance System) Manager
Contract type Permanent
Zodiac Maritime have embarked on a digital transformation programme which touches most parts of the business. Part of this transformation sees a renewal of the Maintenance Management System covering both planned maintenance and defect management. The role holder will join in the early days of implementation of a new technical solution. They will have responsibility for managing the deployment and will then maintain the live system.

This includes data building, mapping, and updates, routine monitoring of jobs and their issues, managing workflow changes, monthly reporting, and audits relating to the PMS.

Equipment Register, Spares, Planned Maintenance, Defect Management and Inventory Management for office/vessel users.

Ensure data (including but not limited to, equipment, spares, jobs, class, inventory, location and running hours) are accurately built, mapped and maintained in the PMS.

Action data change requests as submitted by ships and shore through an applied governance process.

Generate templates for each type of ship joining the Zodiac fleet, and ensure new builds and purchased vessels have accurate capture and transfer of data and associated manuals and other technical documentation.

Assist in ensuring that all vessels have an appropriate maintenance regime in compliance with statutory requirements and Zodiac fleet policies, monitoring and reviewing overdue jobs and defect jobs on a routine basis.

Liaise with external vendors for digitization of manuals and documents to create an e-archive for operational referencing.
Day-to-day administration/follow-up for inquiries received by office and vessel users.

Follows up on issues with hardware and software onboard the vessels to ensure smooth system running in close cooperation with the Vessel IT team and PMS vendor.

Responsible for the training/briefing of the Crew (face to face onboard or remotely) and the onshore Technical Team.
Support the implementation of related projects such as dry dock software and procurement.

Experience of working within the shipping industry within a fast-paced marine technical environment.
Must have relevant experience working on maintenance management / planned maintenance systems (MMS/PMS).
Organised, thorough with great attention to detail and accuracy of data.
Analytical, able to review data and create insightful reports that drive action.
English language skills for a good understanding of the existing ship documentation.
Good Microsoft Office skills.
Interpersonal and Team Management skills.

Having on board ship experience in data collection, setting up PMS applications and training the officers would be advantageous.