JOB PURPOSE: To carry  out  safe  and  efficient  maintenance, operation of  all machinery plants and equipment to ensure safety  of the vessel,  crew and ensure the lake’s environment is protected.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Overall in charge of all technical matters on board.
• Responsible for safe and  efficient  operations of all the  machineries, hull, engine room staff and  all prime  movers/equipment.
• To appraise and evaluate engine room  staff performance
• Carry out the company’s planned maintenance, additional and  alterations of the
• systems up to date and  on record.
• Maintain sufficient  bunkers, stores (spares)  that  are essential to the  running of the  ship.
• Personally supervising the safe and  efficient  transfer of bunkers for the  purpose of
• preventing marine  environmental pollution.
• Prepare and report to the company the  repairs and dry docking schedules as required by the  ship maintenance schedule.
• Control all the  engine room  operations and  report by keeping all the  records.
• Inspection of the daily works of the ships machineries and hull by checking and signing of the  log book  daily.
• Keep records of all oil movement and  are filled in the  oil record book.
• Ensuring that  all the  emergency equipment is tested as  per  the  recommendations  of

SOLAS.

• Ensuring all the  statutory certificate and  survey reports are kept  up to date.
• Arrange for Engine  room  watch  keeping.
• Advise on  Training  and  evaluation of  the  ships  engine room  staff  and  the  workshop

staff as per  the  requirements of the  Standard and  Certification of Watch  keeping to the requirements of (STCW’ 95).

• Safe custody of all the ships (Engine  room) publications.
• Planning of manpower, job delegation.
• Supervise engine room personnel and  give advice  as required
• Daily job planning with 1st engineer and  daily routine inspection
• Ensure proper operation of safety  equipment and  its certificate validity
• Inventory management and  requisition

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of a Diploma  in Mechanical Engineering or Minimum  “A” Level with passes in

Mathematics and  Physics or its equivalence from recognized institution

• Knowledge in computer applications.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Class II  Chief  Engineer’s Certificate of  Competency and  endorsement for  a  ship  with propulsion machinery of 750 KW to 3000 KW Certificate in Advanced Fire Fighting
• Ship Security Officer
• Proficiency in Survival Craft and  Rescue  Boat Personal Survival Techniques
• Basic Fire Fighting Elementary First Aid
• Personal Safety and Social Responsibility Rating Forming Part of Engineering Watch  Ship

Security  Officer Course

• Medical First Aid

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• At least 6 years’  experience as Maintenance Engineer (Chief engineer or 2nd   Engineer) Knowledge and  understanding of marine  diesel  engines and  propulsion systems.
• Understanding of maintenance, planning and  execution of repairs at  managerial  level

Basic knowledge and  interpretation of naval drawings.

• Good communication and time  management. Ability to  carry  out  risk assessment and ensure safety.
• Collaborative teamwork skills and cross-cultural competency.

ELIGIBILITY:   Following  failure  to  attract qualified Ugandans to  fill this position, URC Board   of  Directors opened  up  eligibility  to  East  African  Community  citizens   with prerequisite qualifications and  experience. The successful candidate should  be able  to work within the  Corporation terms and  conditions of service  for the  position.

NOTE:

1. Only successful candidates will be contacted.
2. Any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.
3. Beware of fraud stars.