Manager - Waterways Management Control Center (WMCC)
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About the Role
Responsible for managing Waterways Management Control Center operations, ensuring safety compliance, team leadership, and effective communication with stakeholders.
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Responsibilities
- Manage and coordinate activities of the WMCC VTS centre
- Ensure compliance with rules, regulations, and legislation
- Develop, maintain, and review management standards
- Plan, maintain, and develop emergency procedures
- Manage financial, technical, and human resources issues
- Lead the WMCC VTS team to deliver consistent high quality service
Requirements
- Experience managing a VTS or similar control center
- Knowledge of maritime rules and regulations
- Leadership and team management skills
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Job Overview
- The WMCC VTS Manager is responsible for managing and co ordinating the activities of the WMCC VTS centre.
- This includes managing operations to ensure rules, regulations and legislation are followed, developing and reviewing management standards, ensuring operators are trained and qualified, and planning emergency procedures.
Core Responsibilities
- WMCC VTS Manager will be responsible for maintaining and developing the safety culture
- Ensuring an effective public relations and information service
- Managing financial, technical and Human Resources issues such as maintenance of shift rotas
- Managing the maintenance of the WMCC VTS software systems, equipment and hardware
- Management and review of Standard of procedures manuals, Safety Maps, Risk Assessment and equipment to ensure efficient operations.
People Management Responsibilities
- Managing a team of WMCC Vessel Traffic Service Operators (VTSOs / Supervisor) employed on a continual shift roster.
- Ensuring availability of qualified WMCC VTS operators always.
- Conducting appraisals and undertaking annual assessments
- Actively lead the WMCC VTS team ensuring that the centre delivers a consistent high quality service.
Strategic Responsibilities
- Assessing the risks of vessel movements and establishing cost effective processes and procedures to ensure that risk management is optimised.
- Establishing methods, procedures and technological solutions to gather the information necessary to report on and manage vessel movement.
- Managing operations and traffic in the Abu Dhabi waterways
- Cover WMCC VTS in operations preparation meetings for abnormal operations
- Continues enhancement of the internal process
- Interview and selection of the new WMCC VTS candidates
- Follow, assess, and enhance the WMCC VTS team knowledge and performance.
- Incident notification: Ensure timely and accurate reporting of incidents by the team, in accordance with established protocols.
- Place plan to ensure business continuity
- Cover the WMCC with the internal and external Delegates
- Part of the internal/external Drills
- Automation: lead, enhance and progress automation of the VTS processes (Management system)
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