Ascenz Marorka, a GTT brand, is a leading provider of digital solutions for Smart Ships in the maritime industry, offering the one of the most comprehensive, innovative and reliable digital platform for ship owners and charterers around the world. Ascenz Marorka portfolio comprises solutions for Electronic Fuel Monitoring, Vessel Performance Management, LNG Cargo Management, Emissions Monitoring, Operational and Regulatory Reporting, Weather Routing… More details on the company and the products at: https://ascenzmarorka.com
Ascenz Marorka is looking for an Analyst Officer for its Vessels Weather Routing Operational Center.
Our headquarters are in Paris area, France. The job will be located in Singapore
Read more at https://ascenzmarorka.com
Professional Competencies
Followings are required :
At sea experience :
- Officer of the Watch on OSV vessels during 2 years at least within the last 6 years, including Passage Planing preparations
- 2 years of offshore experience within a maritime company or major operator
- Able to monitor and advice on the performance of an OSV
- Practical use of weather routing softwares or services
- Rough seas navigation strong feedback
- English language: Excellent verbal understanding/ Good English writing
Followings are an advantage
- On site management/ technical support for Oil & Gas companies
- Experience within a vessels Weather Routing Center/ Ops Monitoring Center
- Officer on following vessels types: gas-carrier or tanker, liner like containers-carrier, bulk-carrier, passengers vessel
- Officer in various maritime compagnies
- Experience as Chief Mate or second engineer
- Polar navigation
- Any meteorology and/ or oceanography theorical studies certified degree
IT:
- Practical use of sea Keeping software
- Practical use of ops softwares, in order to test and comment new IT Products and functionalities
- Any language other than English and French
- Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint and JIRA
- Experience with data vizualisation tools
Personal Characteristics
Followings are required
- Ability for listening and taking into account with strictness all captains requirements, in order to monitor a fleet of tenths of vessels at sea, within contracts
- Act autonomously to initiate direct contact with captains at sea by satellite phone when needed: over-speeding vessels, route deviations, fuel monitoring
- Self-control to maintain excellent relationships, in spite of stress of severe sea conditions to be encountered
- Full and impartial Reporting of any critical events/ difficult verbal relationships with vessels if any
Following are advantages
- Ability to fast analyze Post-Voyage data, and to argue with scientific facts and measures for Claim management if any
- Curious to adjust analysis with additional data sources on web
- IT abilities to perfectly use softwares, and propose improvements or new functionalities
- Involved to provide the best advices to captains at sea at any time
- Able to write feedback and feedback for future improvements
Tasks
Vessel routing and voyage optimization
- Collect all necessary data 72h- 24h before vessels departure (Tracking, SatComs, vessels Characteristics and Ops Constraints) in order to calculate the best routes and speeds thanks to Ascenz Marorka weather routing software
- Provide meteorological and oceanographical forecasts and observations data to vessels
- Advice captains for their Passage Planning, before departure and during Ocean crossing:
- Assist captain to connect on Ascenz Marorka website, and support for to set up calculation
- Input parameters according to captains wishes, when needed
- Monitor vessels safety when in Storms/ Tropical depressions
- Compare vessels routes in similar conditions
- Take care of Fuel Consumption during voyages, and take contact with captains to optimize their voyage budget
- Optimize all vessels routes, using the Ascenz Marorka weather routing software
- Take into account vessels observations, in order to be able to comment about Metocean forecasts
- Analyze forecasts and observations data/ measures, in order to establish post-voyage reports – Argue for claim management, when necessary
- Contribute to Ascenz Marorka software feedback and operational tasks, in order to improve processes
Vessel performance monitoring
- Monitor Vessel Performance: Oversee the performance of operational vessels and proactively provide alerts and guidance to clients (shipowners or charterers) in accordance with company guidelines and procedures : sensors deficiencies, fuel overconsumption, sub optimal activities
- Data Collection and model calibration:organize the collection of ships characteristics and historical data in order to calibrate performance models with the assistance of data scientists if needed.
- Client Communication: Inform clients about missing/late data, the quality of collected data, and any sensor failures to improve the overall dataset and ship models.
- Performance Analysis: Analyze real-time, periodic, and post-voyage performance, providing technical feedback to clients (ship owners or charterers) to optimize the vessel's environmental and economic performance.
- Coordinate Corrective Actions: Implement corrective actions for incorrect data, whether the issue is hardware or software-related.
- Reporting: Maintain up-to-date reports on the state of vessel performance data.
