Senior Operations Manager at Criterion Nigeria Limited

Criterion is an indigenous Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) company active in dredging, procurement, infrastructure and solid minerals prospecting in Nigeria. We are also active in maritime business, providing security to safeguard against unlawful interference with maritime, offshore facility or ship operations. Criterion has been delivering performance excellence to government and private sector clients in Nigeria for over a decade.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Operations Manager

Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Oversees all operational activities to ensure high quality and optimized service delivery.
• Work in close liaison with the marine support and technical team on all vessel management matters.
• Ensures the attainment of set operational efficiency and quality targets
• Optimises fleet capacity utilisation and standardization
• Investigates new opportunities for deriving value from marine services competencies
• Supervises Operations and Vessel budget preparation
• Controls the assigned budget and actively seek operational leverage to increase cost efficiency
• Carries-out operational budget analysis for management and ensures compliance with budget
• Reviews monthly operational budget results, implements monthly variance reporting as compared to budget and advice on expenditure trends.
• Develops and maintains internal controls and policies for an effective operations system
• Deals with non-conformities covering ship and shore based operations.
• Provides full cooperation to regulatory bodies regarding marine and technical operations.
• Develops and progresses the new-build strategy and provides input to contract concept selection
• Enforces a zero downtime preventive vessel maintenance policy regime
• Provides all the necessary support to ensure timely port turnaround and shipyard repair activities.
• Monitors/rectifies non-compliance to vessel operating and SMS procedures.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Naval Architecture or Marine Management
• Internationally recognized shipping qualification
• Minimum of 7 years experience as a marine operations manager
• Knowledge of Ship building and ship docking/ drawings/work scopes
• Previous experience in emerging markets / Africa / Nigeria is a plus.

Application Closing Date
9th April, 2024.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: [email protected] using the job title as the subject of the mail.