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Sydney, NSW, AU

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Coordinating up to 16 distinct operations per day - without delays or interruptions - across Sydney, Botany and Newcastle harbours in addition to open sea towage.
• Organising the delivery of a variety of port operations and project work, including stores, crew transfers, infrastructure maintenance, marine construction support, diving support, maritime training, salvage and surveys.
• Rostering a pool of 30 crew (permanent and casual) while ensuring the perfect fit of each worker's abilities and qualifications to the task at hand.
• Leading and managing staff to ensure maximal performance, ongoing training, safety awareness and optimal distribution of work load.
• Managing operations of 12 distinct vessels, including 6 tugs, 4 work boats and 4 river trucks.
• Implementing an innovative rostering and booking system to optimise crewing and improve operational awareness and planning.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Overall charge of the critical division of the world-famous Sydney New Year’s Eve fireworks event - the New Year’s Eve Harbour.
• Managed 3 major contracts involving 12 suppliers to drive high-value outcomes for the City over the tight time frame of just 4 months to prepare a city-scale event.
• Reviewed and improved the City's operational plans, safety and compliance procedures to secure the event against marine-specific risks.
• Consulted the City's Risk Team on the specifics of maritime operations to select optimal scope of work and risk mitigation requirements.
• Represented the City of Sydney as the primary contact for stakeholder engagement meetings and working groups with key Harbour/Maritime Stakeholders such as the Navy, Transport for NSW and Port Authority NSW, achieving.
• Directly participated at management level in a critical event control team of 10 senior event supervisors while coordinating the movements of 3 support vessels, 9 tugs, 7 fireworks barges and additional units and.

Sydney, Australia

• Safely completed up to 4 cargo and bunkering operations per day without major delays throughout the year.
• Worked with the Master on planning, scheduling and executing of the vessel’s movements on the harbour (Sydney, Botany, Melbourne, Geelong) within tight and precise deadlines.
• Safe and efficient ship handling, as part of Master understudy, in all types of environmental conditions.
• Took full responsibility for all cargo-related matters and was in charge of all deck operations to ensure timely and safe fulfilment of the vessel’s commitment to bunker customers.
• Utilised the planned maintenance system (NS5) to ensure appropriate records of tasks, stocks, corrective work & audits.
• Liaised with schedulers, terminal officers, receiving vessels’ crew and port agencies to guarantee smooth and efficient operations and to win the confidence of all stakeholders.

Sydey Harbour

Education record

Bachelor Of Design, Design And Applied Arts

Advanced Diploma In Nautical Science