Line Operations Manager

2 weeks ago

Auckland City, New Zealand NPDL Full time

**Company Description**
Neptune Pacific Direct Line (NPDL) is experiencing a period of significant transformation. Formed in 2020, Neptune Pacific Line acquired Pacific Direct Line, bringing together two of the South Pacific’s top shipping and logistics companies to support the full supply chain of our customers in the region. NPDL is part of The Wonderful Company headquartered in the USA (including Fiji Water).

NPDL operates 11 containerships, moving +240k TEU between AU, NZ and the Pacific Islands, as well as the USA. We have strong partnerships with other shipping line, moving cargo across 25 customer destinations in 16 countries.

As the Line Operations Manager, you'll be the driving force behind NPDL's shipping success, leading both strategic and day-to-day operations with precision and passion. Your mission? To deliver exceptional service, uphold schedule integrity, and masterfully manage voyages, vessel capacity, and utilization—all while keeping a sharp eye on cost efficiency. You'll champion NPDL's "A Safer Pacific" safety culture, ensuring our policies and principles are not just met but exceeded. As a key player, you'll contribute to the development and implementation of innovative safety strategies across the South Pacific, making a real impact on the future of maritime operations.

**What you will be doing**:
**Voyage Management and Scheduling**
- ** Command the Seas**:Take charge of the NPDL fleet with expert voyage management, ensuring every voyage plan is executed to perfection. Make daily tactical decisions to guarantee on-time performance and surpass schedule reliability targets.
- ** Master the Schedule**:Oversee day-to-day schedule management, including contingencies, recovery actions, and the execution of ad-hoc port calls. Manage vessel speed, routing, phase-ins, phase-outs, and dry-docking programs with precision.
- ** Design the Future**:Collaborate with commercial and group managers to co-create and refine the service framework, delivering on business plan objectives with excellence.
- ** Own the Schedule**:Maintain NPDL’s live vessel schedules, ensuring they meet both commercial demands and customer expectations through top-tier scheduling practices.
- ** Drive Performance**:Partner with port operations and vessel planning teams to achieve rapid port turnaround times, supporting schedule reliability at the lowest cost while meeting performance targets.
- ** Expert Guidance**:Provide vital expertise to vessel planning, port operations, and commercial teams in assessing and handling breakbulk and project cargo operations. Be ready to travel to ports as needed to oversee cargo operations firsthand.
- ** Deliver Excellence**:Ensure that all cargo aboard your vessels is transported safely, delivered on time, and arrives in perfect condition, fulfilling NPDL’s promises to customers.

**Vessel Utilization and Capacity Management**
- ** Maximize Potential**:Collaborate closely with vessel planning and commercial teams to optimize ship capacity and cargo space allocation, aligning with commercial goals and meeting empty container repositioning needs.
- ** Continuous Improvement**:Take ownership of end-to-end vessel utilization and capacity processes, driving regular reviews and developing innovative tracking and reporting methods to enhance performance.

**Voyage Cost Management**
- ** Control Costs**:Take full ownership of operational voyage costs, crafting strategies to continuously reduce expenses—focusing on voyage operating costs, bunker costs, and port variable costs. Eliminate avoidable costs wherever possible.
- ** Enhance Transparency**: Develop and implement reporting processes that provide clear visibility into voyage costs, highlighting variances between actual and planned expenditures.

**Performance & Reporting**
- ** Lead with Insight**:Play a pivotal role in performance meetings, reporting on voyage results, performance targets, and key KPIs**_._**:

- ** Effective Communication**:Establish robust communication and escalation protocols to manage exceptions and swiftly mitigate delays, ensuring all stakeholders are informed and aligned.
- ** Embrace Innovation**:Champion the use of digital tools and systems in the operational workspace, driving the digital transformation of our processes.

**Qualifications** What you will bring to the table**:

- ** Preferred, Not Required**:A degree in supply chain or business is a plus, but we value experience and drive above all.
- ** Proven Experience**:Bring your hands-on expertise from a shipping operations role, combined with at least 5 years of shore-based management in international trade, and make an impact.
- ** Operations and Scheduling Savvy**:Experience in scheduling, port operations, or vessel stow planning? That's a strong advantage.
- ** Analytical Mastery**:Leverage your sharp analytical skills to develop and implement KPIs that drive performance.
- ** Influential Communicator**:Your exceptional communication, negotiation,

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