THE ORIGINS

There is no a Technical Superintendent school

Neither, nobody borns or became at a TS inmediately

A TS could be a naval engineer, chief engineer, or another one with technical preparation associated with ship management

His responsabilty is the vessel management, acomplish with the services that ship requires in order to mantain it operative with no delays, the TS needs to know the flag regulations like Liberia, Panama, Singapur, Malta, Bahamas, or the ones of the own country 

It´s important to coordinate the vessels ETA in order to visit and send the necessary contracts

In each visit the TS will meet with Captain and CE in order to know the ship and crew requirements

Also, each five years the vessels has the special surveys and for that, the TS will prepare the dry docking quotation and all the task in reference to this special survey

• Planning/Managing and arranging all technical maintenance and repairs for Company’s vessels, identify and solve daily routine problems/issues
• Ensure full compliance with all class, flag state or any other mandated standards and requirement
• Initiating action or authorizing action on purchases of spares for the vessel considering budget restraints.
• Monitoring the fleets condition, cosmetically, technically and structurally
• Safe efficient and economical running of the vessels under his care
• Day to day monitoring of the vessel’s performance and progress
• Assessment for Employment of senior engineering officers
• Participation in Management Review Meetings
• Provide assistance to the Manager in the preparation of vessel operating budgets;
• Advance planning to ensure dry dockings are effectively planned and efficiently executed
• Monitoring the company’s documentation required of the vessel
• Manage subordinate and hold regular meetings with them on good, safety practices as well as Company management policies and procedures
• Report regularly to the Manager and follow up on problems/issues

The rest of the things it will be lern with the time and the experience. For example, if the OWS is out of service, the first thing that the TS must do is call to the Class (LR, BV, ABS, DNV, etc), explain what had happen and inmediately send an email to the flag in order to ask for a dispensation. With this dispensation, the Class will issue a "Short Term" for a period of time until the equipment will be repaired. 

In next times I will tell more about the class, status survey, vettings, statutory certificates and more!!!