Salvage Master

As a salvage master you can make your mark in the dynamic and high-stakes field of marine salvage, managing emergency response - and wreck removal projects. Your mission is to protect the environment while safeguarding the vessel and its cargo, often under intense and challenging conditions.

Your will lead a team of dedicated salvage professionals that typically includes a salvage supervisor, a salvage engineer, a naval architect and other specialists tailored to the project’s needs. Together, your focus will be on swiftly stabilizing situations, whether that means keeping a vessel afloat, extinguishing fires, coordinating tugs or managing fuel and cargo. Success in this role requires making critical decisions, acting decisively and always prioritizing safety. This is your chance to leave a lasting impact in one of the most exciting and essential areas of the maritime industry.

Your responsibilities as a salvage master

• Lead Salvage Operations: Manage the safe and successful execution of salvage projects ensuring they meet safety, quality, time and financial objectives as well as client and SMIT Salvage specifications.
• Project Planning: Oversee the preparation of operational salvage project plans to ensure readiness and efficiency.
• Risk and Opportunity Management: Identify and address risks during operations while proactively seeking opportunities to optimize project performance.
• Progress Monitoring and Reporting: Track and report project progress to clients, local authorities and internal stakeholders. Develop and share close-out reports, including lessons learned, to enhance future operations.
• Quality and Safety Assurance: Up-hold high-quality standards and prioritize safety in all aspects of project execution.
• Team Deployment: Assess and manage the allocation of internal staff and hired personnel to ensure optimal team performance.

In addition to your operational responsibilities, you will have a significant commercial role. This includes contributing to the preparation of commercial proposals, initiating business opportunities and representing SMIT Salvage throughout the project lifecycle - before, during and after - while engaging with clients, (sub)contractors and other stakeholders.

Your qualities
You are a seasoned salvage professional who has already earned your spurs in the profession and you are ready for a new step in your career. You don't want to just take a step. You want a role that does justice to both your operational and commercial knowledge about ship salvage. We don't have to tell you that a flexible attitude is required to be successful in the role of salvage master. After all, you never know where and when a ship will run into problems. In stressful situations, you keep a cool head and you always focus on the safety of the people who work for and with us. Beside:

• You have completed a higher vocational education in a nautical-technical direction.
• You have at least 10 years of work experience in the maritime industry or 5 years in a similar role as a salvage master.
• You are a strong analytical thinker, able to compile and analyze information by using a rationalistic and systematic approach to understand issues.
• You are a strong decision-maker, able to take decisions based on analysis, knowledge, experience and judgment
• You have excellent problem-solving skills, you analyze problems, identify solutions and take actions to prevent or solve the problem at hand.
• You have experience with financial reporting and budgeting.
• You have experience with cross-culture working and leadership.
• You have a perfect command of the English language in word and writing.

We offer

• A dynamic environment: A job that allows you to collaborate with a talented team of experts from different backgrounds and contribute to making a significant impact.
• Rewarding conditions: A competitive salary and much more, including holiday allowance, holiday entitlement of 26 days (based on a full-time contract) and a number of collective scheduled days off, a non-contributory pension scheme, collective schemes such as company health insurance, travel allowance and foreign posting terms.
• Career development: We offer you plenty of opportunities to bring out the best in yourself for example through (online) courses at our Boskalis academy.
• The Boskalis campus: Experience the unique Boskalis vibe at our Papendrecht site, complete with restaurants, sports field, and a wharf where our vessels dock. We offer a state-of-the-art auditorium, brainstorming rooms, experience center for client meetings, and a barista corner where you can connect with colleagues.
• Warm welcome: We warmly welcome our new colleagues, so they feel at home as soon as possible. During your onboarding program, we give you all the ins and outs of Smit Salvage!

• Your team: As a salvage master you will work for SMIT Salvage. You will work for one of the largest salvage companies in the world. You are part of a global team of 19 Salvage Masters. You will also work with various other colleagues who are part of the Salvage team.

About Boskalis

Working at Boskalis is about creating new horizons and sustainable solutions. In a world where population growth, an increase of global trade, demand for (new) energy and climate change are driving forces, we challenge you to make your mark in finding innovative and relevant solutions for complex infrastructural and marine projects.

SMIT Salvage is part of Boskalis and in your job, you will work for this salvage company that is one of the largest in the world. We have an extensive track record and our client base includes many ship owners, governments, oil and gas companies and leading insurers. The power of the sea is unpredictable. You never know when or where a vessel is going to get into trouble and how a salvage operation will turn out. We have five strategically located offices near the main global shipping routes: Rotterdam, Houston, Cape Town, Macae and Singapore.