Ship Repair Manager

Profile

• Team leader role during five years in Ship Repair Management.
• Good negotiation and commercial skills.
• Experience in drydocks and vessel inspections.
• Strong planning and project management skills. 
• Improvement and achievement orientated. 
• Attention to detail and documentation.
• Thorough knowledge of ship repair processes.
• Ability analyze and interpret: blue prints, drawings, scientific and technical journals, financial reports and legal documents.
• Ability to effectively communicate staff responsibilities/goals and competently lead a team to success.
• Ability to walk, bend, stoop, climb aboard ships and various heights, working from scaffolding and man lifts.
• Ability to work in confined spaces and withstand extreme heat in outside climates or confined spaces.

 Professional Experience 

Marine Engineers Corporation - MEC Shipyards (Panamá) Ship Manager. September 2015 to date.

Achievements: 

• 46 dry-dock repair projects attended from September 2015 to date. Total revenue 21MD.
• Principal ship repair manager for relevant projects for biggest drydock.
• Back to back project with several international clients (Greece, Ecuador owners)
• Projects with average of 15,000-man hours. 
• Team leader in all repairs forming project team and empowering stakeholders.

Responsibilities: 

• Review the initial bid and initial works scope with the owner’s superintendent, focused to identify additional works. 
• Validate the ship repair schedule prepared by the project manager in Microsoft Project, to identify critical path and other works affecting the delivery time.
• Control the budget and program deviations according to the approved work extensions.
• Review blueprints, specifications of equipment, technical information provided by the customer.
• Estimate and negotiate additional works according with established rates, present to CEO new spread sheets for new cost basis.
• Request outsourced jobs (outsourcing) coordinate and maintain profitability for this type of services.
• Ensure effective communication with departments during the execution of repairs.
• Negotiate and approve the final billing with owner’s superintendent.
• Elaborate Dry-dock report of each repair

• Ship Repair Manager at MEC Shipyards
  Sep 2015

  Ship repair projects in drydocks and afloat.