What are the responsibilities and job description for the Operations Manager position at APL?
SUMMARY DESCRPTION:
This role involves leading a team of Ship Managers and Operations Assistants, ensuring compliance with training and labor laws. It oversees ship operations to maintain schedules, contractual obligations, and coordination with partners. Responsibilities also include optimizing voyage efficiency, implementing operational procedures, improving shipping routes, maintaining key documents, and monitoring fuel consumption and environmental compliance.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- To manage a team of Ship managers and Operations Assistants, ensure trainings are up to date and that the working hours regulations laws are followed.
- To ensure that the ships belonging to the CMA CGM shipping Lines, respect the planned schedules and that operations are in compliance with the contractual obligations.
- To ensure that the ships belonging to the CMA CGM partners follow the agreed plans (port call, scheduling, allocation).
- To recommend structural or permanent adjustments to ensure that the ship journeys proceed in good conditions (voyage costs, and schedule integrity)
- To ensure smooth communication related to his scope (information regarding schedule, vessels loading / unloading, daily reporting) to internal and external stakeholders
- To define and to implement operational procedures within the Line.
- To participate in design of new Lines and improvement of existing ones.
- To maintain and distribute a set of documents (proformats, Long term schedules/LTC, and daily position sheet/DPS) and data base fill in.
- To monitor bunker consumption, Co2 emissions, extra cost, CII (Carbon intensity Index) of the fleet and ensure compliance of local regulations.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's Degree preferred
- Maritime School preferred
- Bachelor's Degree preferred
- 1-3 years Ship Manager experience
ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Ideal candidate will have at least 2 years of Merchant Navy deck officer experience.
- Operations - Equipment knowledge
- Operations - Vessels technical specifications knowledge
- Transverse - English
- Ways of working - Use of different digital tools
- Transverse - English
- Results orientation
- Executing - Sense of urgency
- Analyzing - Critical Thinking
- Communicating - Synthesis mindset
- Commitment - Tenacity
