Crew Training Officer

Together with your colleagues from the Crew Support Team, you have a versatile role and you are involved in everything that has to do with training, certificates and other (sailing) documents. Van Oord employs approximately 1,800 seafarers of 25 different nationalities.

• You coordinate the onboarding Introduction Days for new-hires (crew);
• You facilitate STCW training for seafarers and ensure that the certification path of the sea-farers is always up-to-date, so that seafarers can enroll for the relevant course;
• You coordinate, schedule, book and manage training courses for crew in close cooperation with the crew officers, where applicable.
• Working closely with Van Oord Academy for the successful training booking management;
• Assisting with the applications (whenever necessary) for the seaman's books for seafarers or colleagues who will work onboard of one of our ships.

YOUR WORKPLACE

You will work in our office in Rotterdam with a team consisting of 5 people, part of the crewing department, that is responsible for hiring and scheduling our seafarers. You will work on a daily basis with the Crew Training & Documents Coordinator and report to the Crew Support Manager.

You have strong communication skills, which shows in the way you communicate to vessel crews with confidence and from a position of knowledge. Your well-established network of industry contacts including Training Centres and flag state administrations helps you with that. You are flexible and stress resistant. In addition, you have:

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in a Crewing Officer role;
• An extensive knowledge of the relevant Maritime legislation including STCW 2010 (Manila amendments), MLC, SOLAS and Flag State Authority regulations;
• Good to Expert user of Microsoft Office suite including Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint;
• Good command of the Dutch (optional) and English language, verbally and in writing.

We offer you a position in which you will have an important contribution to our mission 'building a better world for future generations'. In addition, we offer you:

• A salary that matches your responsibilities and experience;
• Travel allowance (€0.31 per km) and home office allowance (€2.15 per day);
• 32 leave days per year;
• Variable bonus;
• Pension scheme;
• Collective health insurance (optional);
• Flexible working from home policy, 2 days a week when working on a full-time basis;
• Extensive learning and (personal) development possibilities, including a wide range of online courses via Goodhabitz;
• You can join communities, like Young Van Oord, Van Oord Women and the Van Oord staff association.

Interested? Apply via the application button. Do you have any questions? Please contact Myrthe van Selst.

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