Vessel Superintendent

Join our team as Vessel Superintendent

Are you a master technical supporter we are looking for?

Bring your marine engineering expertise and hands-on approach to our onshore team, where you’ll ensure our jack-up barges’ smooth operation and maintenance. Let’s connect to discuss how you can make a difference!

Vessel Superintendent Role

The Vessel Superintendent plays a crucial role in maintaining and supporting the operations of jack-up barges, with a focus on keeping the vessels in optimal condition. In our organisation, the Vessel Superintendent reports directly to the Rig Manager, ensuring a close connection to daily operations. Collaborating closely with various departments, particularly the Engineering & Asset Integrity Department, the superintendent ensures effective planning and execution of scheduled and unscheduled maintenance. This includes coordinating dry-docking, managing spare parts inventory, and ensuring all activities comply with safety and regulatory standards.

The role involves cooperating with onboard supervisors, external contractors, and other key departments, contributing to budget preparations, and monitoring performance. With a strong background in marine engineering, the Vessel Superintendent brings technical expertise, organizational skills, and a hands-on approach to both onshore and offshore environments.

Your position within our organisation:

• Reports directly to the Rig Manager
• Works closely together with the Maintenance Supervisor on board
• Works together with the Project Engineer
• Works together with the Engineering & Asset Integrity Department, Document Control, Procurement Department and QHSE Department
• Works with third parties contracted for various supporting services

About Jack Up Barge

Jack-Up Barge owns and operates a fleet of self-elevating jack-ups in offshore energy operations. With over 20 years of experience operating worldwide, we are frontrunners in this highly specialized segment of offshore and marine services. We assist significant energy and offshore multinationals globally in achieving their goals in the energy transition, providing crew support wherever their operations take place offshore at our headquarters in Oosterhout. Jack-Up Barge is part of the Van Es Group.

About Van Es Group

The Van Es Group is a dynamic and rapidly growing community of nine leading companies in the offshore and energy transition markets. Our family members, including Jack-Up Barge, Swift Drilling, Dutch Offshore Contractors, Z-Bridge, The Offshore Partners, Heavy Lift Crane Company, World Wide Equipment, PVE Crane Rental & Services, and Tetrahedron, are well-established names in the industry. By combining our expertise and networks, we strengthen each other and make a lasting impact on the offshore and energy transition sectors, for the world today and the next generation.

Your responsibilities  

As Vessel Superintendent, you are responsible for ensuring a streamlined operation, maintenance, and compliance of our vessels. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Managing the planning and execution of both scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, project mobilisations, modifications, and surveys of assigned units. Overseeing the use of the planned maintenance system, monitoring overdue maintenance, and providing guidance to Maintenance Supervisors onboard. Reporting on vessel conditions and supporting damage claims.
• Developing a critical spare parts strategy, maintaining up-to-date inventories, and setting up new maintenance tasks for replaced or new equipment and systems.
• Managing supplier contracts, reviewing their performance, and expediting follow-ups as needed. Collaborating with Rig Manager on budgeting, dry-docking specifications, and cost estimates, while ensuring statutory, class, and trading certificates remain valid.
• Ensuring compliance with company regulations, as well as environmental, safety, and quality standards, while staying updated on new industry legislation.
• Ensuring the familiarization of offshore technical personnel.

Your experience, skills, and personal competencies

As Vessel Superintendent, you are part of the Rig Management, which acts as the link between the office and operations. This requires an awareness of the organisation, knowing what to contribute and when, while anticipating the situation. The role demands the following:

• Qualifications: Hold a minimum qualification as a middle-grade marine engineer, naval architect, or a similar technical level, with demonstrated experience in vessel maintenance and repairs.
• Technical literacy and reporting: Capable of reading engineering deliverables, understanding technical diagrams, and producing clear, relevant reports. Proficient in the use of a Planned Maintenance System (PMS), preferably STAR-IPS.
• Professionalism: Having organizational awareness, the Vessel Superintendent understands how the organization functions, including its culture, and effectively plans actions, priorities, and resources to achieve goals. Serves as an ambassador for Jack-Up Barge and related companies, maintaining professionalism internally and in all third-party interactions.
• Initiative and problem-solving: Proactively gather information to address current and future challenges, solving problems while adhering to regulations. Adjust to changing circumstances, embrace new ideas, and improvise where necessary to reach objectives.
• Flexibility and willingness to travel: Willing and able to travel and work offshore as needed.
• Communication: Clear and effective communication in both Dutch and English with all stakeholders, ensuring both written and spoken messages are well understood

Our offer

• A pleasant and professional work environment in a dynamic team
• A 1-year full-time contract with the possibility of a permanent position
• Competitive salary and benefits (travel allowance, pension scheme, insurance, and holiday pay)
• A great workplace at our state-of-the-art headquarters in Oosterhout
• Daily lunch with colleagues
• Partial remote work negotiable

What to expect

At Van Es Group, we value personal leadership and encourage our employees to grow personally and professionally. As a Vessel Superintendent, you will play a key role at both our office in Oosterhout and on our Jack-Up Barges, with ample opportunities for development and shaping your role over time.

Do you recognize yourself in this role?

Apply now and join a dynamic, international offshore organisation where no two days are the same. We look forward to your contribution to keeping our operations running smoothly.

Send your CV and motivation letter to our HR Officer Nick Lantinga

More information about the Van Es Group

Van Es Group is a prominent Dutch family business in the offshore sector and energy transition. We extend a family-oriented approach to all our customers, employees, networks, and suppliers, building long-term relationships with partners, customers, and family members. Our on- and offshore portfolio includes Jack-Up Barges, pontoons, ring- and crawler cranes, subsea cable carousels, crewing, and platform access systems for the offshore sector. The diversity and volume of our offshore equipment and infrastructure set us apart in the international offshore industry. Our core values are teamwork, ownership, and entrepreneurship. For more information, visit our website, Van Es Group.

Stronger together in offshore and energy transition

Contact information

Jack-Up Barge
Everdenberg 17
4902 TT Oosterhout
The Netherlands
+31 0184 420091