Port Engineer - Alcatraz Cruises

About the role

Hornblower Group is seeking a highly skilled and experienced individual to lead the Engineering Department. This role involves managing all daily operations, ensuring compliance with contracts and business requirements, and providing oversight for maintenance and repair of vessels, vehicles, and facilities.

Responsibilities

• Manages all daily operations of the department, including oversight of all Lead Engineer(s) and Night Engineering Manager(s).
• Ensures work is managed in a way to minimize disruption, and protects all business operations.
• Guides other Engineering Managers in division of labor to execute workplan in a safe, effective, and efficient manner.
• Provides final quality assurance checks of all work, and guidance for corrective action, as needed.
• Able to determine if safety sensitive or compliance items are corrected, and make recommendations on if a vessel or component is service ready.
• Performs JSAs and JHAs under the supervision of the Director of HSSQE and the Director of Engineering.
• Maintains all higher-level department functions, including scheduling and staffing levels, maintaining inventory and reporting requirements, adjusting and implementing maintenance intervals, inspections and repairs.
• Provides final quality control checks for submission to the Director of Engineering.
• Supervises the appearance of the vessels in a manner that enhances the Interpretive Experience of our guests and Respects the Planet.
• Communicates status of department work activities to the Director of Engineering and is responsible for organizing the work duties for the Engineers.
• Audits the recording of assignments in appropriate programs and places with accuracy, providing guidance, assistance and reporting as needed.
• Makes sure all crew is working safely, per IIPP, and other safety plans, and in proper PPE when required.
• Maintain Lock out Tag Out standards (LOTO) / Comply with written Hazardous Control of the Release of Energy Plan.
• Responds to all company emergencies as required by business needs.
• Guides department through any crisis with calm and collected leadership, and redirects employees, equipment, and managers as needed to resolve and recover from any unforeseen issues.
• Manages vendors and crew during special projects, including at shipyards or other work locations.
• Ensures that all vessels exceed the minimum standards for the USCG and all Federal, State, and local safety standards.
• Evaluates operation of marine equipment.
• Maintains and coordinates repair of marine machinery and equipment for installation on vessels.
• Inspects marine equipment and machinery to draw up work requests and job specifications.
• Reviews work requests, and compare them with previous work completed on Vessels in order to ensure that costs are economically sound.
• Prepares technical reports for use by engineering, marine operations, and upper management.
• Procures materials needed to repair marine equipment and machinery.
• Acts as liaisons between vessels' Captains and Engineers to ensure that schedules and budgets are maintained, and that vessels are operated safely and efficiently.
• Checks, tests, and maintains automatic controls and alarm systems.
• Maintains records of engineering department activities, including expense records and details of equipment maintenance and repairs.
• Schedules machine overhauls and the servicing of electrical, heating, ventilation, refrigeration, water, and sewage systems.
• Supervises other engineers, maintenance personnel and crewmembers, and trains them for routine and emergency duties.
• Maintains all equipment to manufacturer's specifications.
• Writes and implements department policy including safety policy to protect employees, operations, business needed, and under the requirements of any applicable standards.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• HAZWOPER certificate (40 hours)
• HAZMAT certificate
• Advanced upper management and HR skills. Including payroll, and all adhering to applicable local, State, or Federal requirements under labor laws, MOU’s, Cal-OSHA or other similar organization
• Project management skills
• Engineering experience required
• Experience with maintaining a safe workplace required
• Management experience required
• Inventory management experience required
• Contract compliance and regulatory experience required
• Customer service experience required
• Knowledge of foreign language helpful
• Advanced computer skills and familiarity with all engineering programs is required
• Valid CA Driver's License and clean driving record
• Open schedule and ability to work any assigned schedule, including holidays and weekends
• Ability to work a shift that may start as early as 4:30 am or end as late as 10:45 pm. Shifts are 8 hours.