Aidan O’Boyle

Senior Engine Watchkeeper on 108,000 GT vessel

• Duties include: Operation and monitoring Main Engines, Aux Equipment and propulsion, Environmental discharges, Record Keeping, Ballasting and transfer operations, Monitoring Safety Management System
• The workday consist of 6 hours of watchkeeping and 4 hours of maintenance on my allocated machinery
• Responsible for planning maintenance, ordering spares and making guarantee claims to the shipyard
• Fire/Damage Control Team Leader

• Worked as Watchkeeper
• Duties included operation of all equipment in the engine room including new waste-heat recovery technology
• Maintenance of fuel, lube oil, freshwater, wastewater, bilge water and steam systems
• Took charge of caustic soda bunkering
• Reported ship defects and created guarantee claims to the Shipyard
• Spent time in the ECR, sharing the workload with the 2nd Engineer
• After watchkeeping duty, I would spend 4 hours doing maintenance, ordering spares, creating guarantee claims, planning jobs for the equipment for which I was responsible
• As day-work Engineer, I maintained the Hybrid EGCS, Lifeboats and davits, fixed fire-fighting systems and worked closely with contractors

• Working as an Engine Watchkeeper on 100,000GT+ vessels with a variety of responsibilities
• Responsibilities included day-to-day running of the Engine Room: fuel systems, lube oil systems, freshwater systems, boiler systems and bilge/wastewater systems
• I spent time as Hotel Services Engineer during which, I managed a team of up to 8 fitters
• My responsibilities included maintenance of the emergency generator, lifeboats, lifeboat davits, deck equipment, incinerator, galleys, stores, and general hotel maintenance
• While working as Compliance Engineer, I was responsible for maintenance of OWS/bilge water systems and responsible for the MBR sewage system onboard
• Diesel electric propulsion systems including Wartsila 4 Stroke Conventional and Common Rail Engines and Sulzer 16ZA40
• Extensive experience in job planning with use of AMOS Planned Maintenance System
• Operation and maintenance of Exhaust Gas Cleaning System