Marine Superintendent – Jack-up Barges – UAE

Our client is seeking an experienced Marine Superintendent to oversee ship management for assigned Jack-up barges. This role is critical to ensuring safe, compliant, and cost-effective vessel operations while maximizing fleet utilization and maintaining strong client relationships.
The Marine Superintendent will have end-to-end responsibility across marine, technical, safety, financial, crewing, procurement, and regulatory functions, acting as the primary point of accountability for vessel performance.
Key Responsibilities

• Optimize operational performance and fleet utilization within approved budgets, while ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and local regulatory requirements.
• Maintain full responsibility for vessel status and operational activities, including:
  • Planned maintenance
  • Dry docking
  • Mobilization and demobilization
  • Vessel modifications
  • Warm stack and cold stack operations
• Establish and maintain strong client relationships to ensure client satisfaction and support commercial objectives.
• Manage a multi-disciplinary team covering operations, marine services, technical services, HSE, procurement, crewing, administration, finance, and commercial contracts.
• Develop, implement, and maintain competency standards.
• Support recruitment planning and training of personnel in coordination with the Fleet Manager.
• Ensure full compliance with company policies and regulations, including HSE, risk management, ESG, procurement, crewing, finance, and other corporate governance requirements.
• Oversee HSE management systems ensuring consistent implementation and compliance.
• Collaborate with the Marine Manager to ensure qualified deck officers, engineers, and ratings are deployed across company assets.
• Manage and control budgets to ensure financial accountability and cost efficiency.
• Ensure adoption and effective use of the AMOS maintenance management system across capable vessels.
• Maintain direct communication with vessel Masters regarding operations and activities.

Minimum Requirements & Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in the maritime or similar industry in a fleet management or supervisory role.
• Unlimited Master Mariner Certificate of Competency (CoC).
• Dynamic Positioning (DP) Certificate issued by the Nautical Institute (mandatory).
• Proven experience operating Jack-Up Barges.
• ADNOC or Aramco approval as Port Captain / Marine Superintendent is a strong advantage.
• Bachelor’s degree in Marine Studies or a related discipline.
• Strong communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.