Maintenance Engineer
Position Overview:
- Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Reports To: Fleet Manager
- Department: Shared Resources
- Employment Type: Full-Time
- Travel: 65%
Position Summary:
This role is to carry out the repairs and maintenance jobs on our various fleet floating assets, associated machinery and ensure readiness of the assets for project jobs.
In close coordination with the Fleet Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for carrying out the maintenance jobs, raise requisitions for required spares/stores, update the job progress status in Task Tracker excel sheets, send Daily reports.
Position Responsibilities:
- To maintain all the fleet assets, associated machinery including engines, winches, chain pullers, HPUs in operational condition and carry out periodic routine checks and maintenance as per the maker’s recommendation.
- To carry out the routine overhauling, planned maintenance and breakdown maintenance of our various fleet machinery.
- To ensure sufficient inventory of all consumable items including filters, V belts and other engine consumable spares.
- To assist with any other floating fleet vessel maintenance, drydock, repairs as and when needed.
- To keep shared resources updated for any machinery issues, downtime and required repairs with timeline.
- To update the weekly updates on Shared resources platform.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):
- Maintain fleet winches readiness above 80%.
- Safety: Maintain a high standard of safety with minimal incidents.
Position Requirements:
- Having Marine fleet experience with 5 years of Technical hands-on experience in Marine industry at sea or at shore.
- Will be working at our Fort Lauderdale warehouse when not traveling.
- Should be able to assist in drydocking and various floating repairs of our fleet vessels, tugboats and barges.
- Should be able to assist with repairs of various machinery on board vessels such as Scania main engines, John Deere, CAT and Mitsubishi generators,
- Should be a hands-on engineer able to overhaul and maintain various winches including but not limited to Skagit, Transvictory, Lantec, Promoters, Dutch winches.
- Should be able to overhaul winch associated prime movers’ engines (such as CAT, Detroit) and HPUs, Torque Converter unit, hydraulic/pneumatic system, Clutch diaphragms, brake bands and other associated devices.
- Should be able to assist in other fleet asset machineries as and when needed, including but not limited to cranes (American, IHI, Sumitomo), Gensets, chain pullers, IC engines, compressors, HPUs or any other associated equipment.
- Should be able to lead a team to mobilize and outfit a barge for projects.
- Willing to travel to all our locations to address the needs of our mechanical systems on our barges, vessels, facilities and projects.
- Willing to travel/attend our machineries at our facilities in Mobile and Dutch Harbor (Alaska), and in NJ with our strategic partner on a regular basis.
- Willing to travel at various project sites for barges in USA, South America, Caribbeans, Cyprus and India or any other locations worldwide as and when needed.
- Should be able to Create and update job progress using Excel sheet, Word and Power point programs.
Pay: $30.00 - $35.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
