Maritime Vetting Team Lead
The Maritime Vetting Team Lead is an ideal role for an experienced Maritime Professional, who is looking to expand their career into a key leadership position and who has a passion for safety and compliance, and the ability to tackle engaging projects to enable success during a time of significant change for our industry, where we seek and adapt to more competitive and clearer energy solutions.
If you are an experienced Maritime Professional who has operational experience of Oil/ Chemical/ Gas vessels, and have experience in shore-based roles, we can offer you the chance to take your career to the next level by offering you the ability to drive improvements, and manage a team to maximise performance which will result in improve safety, environmental performance, and compliance within our industry.
Bring us Maritime knowledge and we’ll develop you into a Maritime Leader within our organisation where you’ll gain expertise around Maritime Assurance and how it links with our commercial exposures.
You’ll also have the ability to manage our current and emerging Maritime risks that can impact our business stakeholders, by leading and supporting key projects.
The role also allows the opportunity to develop emergency response skills as a member of the National Response Team.
You’ll join Shell Shipping & Maritime’s Vetting team in Chennai, providing support to local and global Shell and Joint Venture businesses, and overseeing a team based in Chennai. It’s a positive place to work and a team that strongly values diversity of experience and thought, and we believe in creating an inclusive culture and work environment where you can thrive, innovate, and develop; but most of all, be yourself. Working with vessel operators from all over the globe our team consists of diverse nationalities and has an inclusive working environment in which different values and perspectives are valued with safety ranked as top priority for every activity.
Expect lots of support and encouragement while you’re here. You’ll be working alongside people who share a passion for safety and compliance. We strongly value career growth, and with significant change impacting our industry, you’ll have opportunities to develop new areas of expertise and face rewarding challenges in the digital space as we develop new ways of working, focusing on GHG reductions in the future.
You’ll need to continually utilize your learner mindset, to get the most out of your team by asking questions and listening to ideas, ensuring it’s a safe environment for people to speak up and share.
Where You Fit In
Shipping and Maritime is Shell’s centre of expertise for all Shipping and Maritime matters. Enabling Shell’s customer facing businesses through Maritime HSSE, operational excellence, commercial delivery, ship management, maritime risk management, emergency response, localised maritime knowledge and relationships, and technology development, innovation & digitalisation.
We aim to be the partner of choice through transformative collaboration and creating value through strong commercial capability and data driven risk management. We seek to implement net zero-carbon pathways and supply chain solutions that deliver value to Shell and our customers.
To achieve our strategy, we aim to create an environment where our people feel an intrinsic sense of creativity to develop integrated maritime solutions, connected as a community and empowered to make decisions to better serve our customer needs.
As Maritime Vetting Team Lead you will be providing support to local and global Shell and Joint Venture businesses and overseeing a team of direct reports.
What is the Role?
On a day-to-day basis, your role will be to provide support and coaching to a team that will assesses the quality of all regional and internationally trading tankers, barges, dry bulk carriers and project vessels, proposed for use by Royal Dutch Shell Group Companies, to avoid Shell using or being associated with a sub-standard ship, thus minimising the risk of:
Harm to people or the environment
Damage to Shell’s reputation
Financial claims on Shell
These activities will take place across Crude, Products, LNG and Speciality businesses, and you will spend time engaging internally – and externally, cultivating a real spirit of partnership.
We’ll entrust you with responsibility to positively assure Shell’s Maritime activity, managing the effective close out of Maritime incidents, support reviews of 3rd Party Ship management companies, all of which have a significant impact on Shell’s reputation in the maritime industry due to the high level of engagement with external stakeholders. You’ll find yourself in a very visible role providing assurance and feedback to the wider Shipping & Maritime leadership team.
What We Need from You?
You have the leadership capabilities to engage and inspire a community, to create an environment where your team can be creative and empowered to develop integrated maritime solutions for our customers, with intelligent risk taking.
You are a leader who seeks to break down silos and instead builds and strengthens bridges to enable efficiencies and cross team collaboration and learning because you see the success of Shipping & Maritime as the ultimate purpose.
You have a passion for the energy transition and role model customer centricity.
You have a passion for people and embrace a learner mindset to create an environment that enables diversity and inclusion.
You are comfortable with ambiguity, do not shy away from difficult decisions or messages and lead your organisation successfully through change.
A senior marine qualification, typically a Class One Certificate of Competence, is strongly preferred.
You have Operational exposure to Oil, Chemical, LNG, DLNG shipping activities. Experience in incident management and ICS protocols.
You must be able to demonstrate good understanding of IMO Conventions, shipping regulations, HSSE Control Framework/SEAM Standards and the Maritime Process Model.
You will be required to meet the requirements to be Subject Matter Expert Maritime Safety - operational/downstream category.
Experience as Master or Chief Engineer Officer on ocean going tankers (LNG, LPG, Chemical, Crude, Products)
At least 5 years sea time as an officer, or as Chief Officer or 2nd Engineer with more than 4 years Shore based experience.
An Innovative place to work
There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell. Everyone here is helping solve one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: bringing the benefits of energy to everyone on the planet, whilst managing the risks of climate change.
Our business has been built on a foundation of innovative technology and skilled employees. By providing energy to sustain people’s lives for more than a hundred years, Shell has become one of the world’s leading companies.
Join us and you’ll be adding your talent and imagination to a business with the ambition to shape the future. At Shell, everyone does their part.
An Inclusive place to work
Shell is working to become one of the most diverse, equitable, and inclusive organizations in the world. We are taking steps to create an environment where everyone – from our employees, to our customers, partners, and suppliers – feels valued, respected, and has a strong sense of belonging.
To achieve this, we must ensure all people are treated fairly, irrespective of their race, color, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, ethnic origin, nationality, or other status.
To power progress together, we need to attract and develop the brightest minds and make sure every voice is heard. Here are just some of the ways we are nurturing an inclusive environment – one where you can express your ideas, extend your skills, and reach your potential.
We’re closing the gender gap – whether that’s through action on equal pay or by enabling more women to reach senior roles in engineering and technology.
We’re striving to be a pioneer of an inclusive and diverse workplace, promoting equality for employees regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
We consider ourselves a flexible employer and want to support you finding the right balance. We encourage you to discuss this with us in your application.
A rewarding place to work
Combine our creative, collaborative environment and global operations with an impressive range of benefits and joining Shell becomes an inspired career choice.
We’re huge advocates for career development. We’ll encourage you to try new roles and experience new settings. By pushing people to reach their potential, we frequently help them find skills they never knew they had, or make career moves they never thought possible.