Crewing Operator

Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom

7/29/2025

Join Svitzer – A Leader in Maritime Excellence

Are you ready to embark on an exciting career with a global leader in the maritime industry? At Svitzer, we pride ourselves on being a dynamic, market-leading organization with a commitment to innovation, excellence, and safety.

At Svitzer, We Believe In Empowering Our People To Achieve Their Full Potential. As Part Of Our Team, You’ll Enjoy

• Career Growth: A unique opportunity to develop your career within the world’s leading towage provider.
• Dynamic Environment: Work alongside a team of experts dedicated to innovation and operational excellence.
  
  

Purpose

The Crewing Team in Svitzer is responsible for ensuring that our vessels, with 500+ crew are always manned with competent, fully certified individuals while complying with various Maritime regulations and company procedures.

Crewing operations are based in our Customer Service Centre in Middlesbrough and cover all ports in the UK.

The role will form part of the on call out of hours rota.

Key Areas Of Responsibility

• Manage the deployment of a central pool of employees who are available for long term and short-term cover around the UK.
• Work with the Crewing Team Leader and Customer Operations to identify and analyse the resourcing needs in all UK ports current and future plans
• Manage various systems containing crew data including Payroll and Coast
• Create and run the monthly payroll (including overtime payments) for designated ports with the ability to cover non designated as required
• Answer routine questions from crew relating to their CBA, or employment and contractual terms
• Organise for the monthly disposition of crew creating the recharges to the various Ports across the UK
• Manage the supply of agency crew – tracking all agency crew, dealing with all invoicing and checking charges made for the supply of crew
• Review, monitoring and approval of all crew expenses
• Ensure any crew deployed have the correct certification and medical certificates in place
• Work closely with the ports to identify any crew training needed and liaise with the Training Team regarding suitable training courses
• Maintain a good working relationship with all internal and external stakeholders
  
  

We strive to enable you to become your best version of yourself by helping you realize your potential in an entrepreneurial and inclusive work environment. We empower your ambitions through excellent learning opportunities and exposure as well as through competitive pay and benefits package.

We value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job – we value diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to gender, age, nationality, race, sexual orientation, disability or religious beliefs. We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.

Building a Diverse Workplace

In Svitzer we value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job – we value diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to gender, age, nationality, race, sexual orientation, disability, or religious beliefs. We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that members from some under-represented groups are less likely to apply for jobs if they don’t meet every single qualification. At Svitzer we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles, and we are excited about hearing from you!

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