Training Superintendent

The Atlas Corp. and Seaspan teams are goal-driven and share a high-performance culture, focusing on building services offerings to become a leading asset manager. Seaspan provides many of the world's major shipping lines with alternatives to vessel ownership by offering long-term leases on large, modern containerships and pure car, truck carriers (PCTCs) combined with industry leading ship management serves. Seaspan's fleet has evolved over time to meet the varying needs of our customer base. We own vessels in a wide range of sizes, from 2,500 TEU to 24,000 TEU vessels. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlas Corp, Seaspan delivers on the company's core strategy as a leading asset management and core infrastructure company.

Position Description:

This position develops and directs navigational and technical learning. The Superintendent, Training- Nautical develops company-wide strategic training initiatives, including competence development.

Job Responsibilities:

• Delivers effective induction programs, Conducts Pre-joining Training in the latest company 'Incidents', SMS, PSC, MARPOL, COSWP, Security, Navigation, pre-joining orientation, briefing, and in-house courses.
• Manages and delivers navigational and ratings training and support to comply with legislation and agreed customer requirements.
• Monitors the company’s seafarer related Competence Management System. Assesses the Company’s Career Development Initiative (CDI) / Command Partnership Scheme and subsequently facilitates oral examinations (as applicable) and provides recommendations to CDO for promotions.
• Supports navigational and technical competence development for all seafarers. Works closely with management to identify learning opportunities and develop appropriate training content to support company growth initiatives.
• Conduct Navigational Simulator courses and assessments as per company and industry guidelines.
• Oversees curriculum design, learning tools, and needs analysis/gap management, follow-up evaluations, and resulting curriculum improvements and deliverables.
• Monitors changes in statutory and regulatory training requirements to forecast training needs and ensure appropriate measures are implemented.
• Research cost-effective training solutions and creates training guidelines for modern technologies, navigational, cargo, and planned maintenance and other software programs.
• Provides regular status reports based on statistics, metrics, ROI, and project and development results.
• Performs other duties and tasks as required.
• Is familiar with the Health, Safety, Environmental Protection and Quality Policy (PL-005) and understands the responsibilities under the Environmental Management System (EMS). In keeping with this and other compliance policies, they understand their duty to report any environmental noncompliance and/or concern to their manager or members of the senior management team (including the highest level of management) either directly or through the open reporting system as per Management System guidelines.

Requirements:

• Master Mariner with 2-3 years of command experience.
• Minimum three years’ experience in the field of marine related training, including training design and development.
• Train the trainer course or similar .
• Container shipping experience.
• Thorough knowledge of good operating practices, MARPOL, SMS, ISPS, PMS.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite.
• Excellent presentation skills.

Additional Desired Qualifications:

• Certified lead auditor for ISO standards.
• Risk management, incident investigation and root cause analysis course.

Job Demands and/or Physical Requirements:

• Travel is required for this role.