Practical Skills (experience on ship/engine type including Rank(s))

What is the standard Procedure for changing a ME cylinder liner?

From which parameters can you see that ME load is higher than normal?

How will sulphur content in fuel affect the feed rate of Cylinder oil?

What problems will a too high feed rate cause?

What can cause an increased exhaust temperature?

If attended a BTM/ERM course, what key skills did you learn?

What is the reason for keeping an Oil record book?

in case ODME is not working. Are you allowed to discharge slops?

You have a broken 15 ppm sensor and the amount bilge water is accumulating on-board. There is a very big commercial pressure on you to rectify this. The alternative is to deviate the vessel at a very high cost. What do you do?

How far from the coast do you have to be to be allowed to discharge with a working 15ppm sensor? What are the basic regulations for handing garbage onboard?

What are the risks of using ECDIS as the primary means of navigation?

What are the VGP requirements?

When do you use MSDS information and why?

Explain the Permit-to-Work System (Hotwork, Enclosed Space Entry, Work Aloft, Pumproom Entry, etc.)

What are the basic lifeboat inspection checks that need to be made?

What is the basic FFS inspection requirement?

What checks need to be made of lifting equipment?

Check mooring winch BHC testing knowledge.

Check knowledge of TLV limits for H2S and Benzene.

How do you prepare a vessel for a Vetting?

Have you ever been involved in a serious ME failure/Nav close-quarter situation. If so what caused it and how as it solved?

Have you ever been involved in an emergency situation? What caused it and what lessons were learnt?

Have you ever sailed in High Risk/ War Risk area before?

What kind of precautions do you take during sailing in High risk area?

What would be your immediate action if you saw a skiff boat / if you were attacked/ if you saw pirates onboard?

What are your actions if you find stowaways onboard?

Commercial Awareness

What is the consequence of a poor vetting result?

You have urgent spares waiting for you in Singapore and want to have it delivered when passing Singapore. You discuss with master and you instruct agent to go ahead and deliver. Vessel is loaded. What has to be cleared first?

Why do vessels have Vetting inspections?

Why do vessels tender NOR?

Check knowledge of NOR tendering?

How do you know when to tender NOR?

Why would the vessel use weather routeing?

Management or Supervisory Skills

Discuss one time when you felt you did good when supervising another person.

What are important factors for successful guidance of other persons?

Your team are overhauling a pump and when you have a round in ER you discover that they don’t know what they are doing. What do you do?

You have a young junior officer onboard. He is smart but not experienced. How do you deal with this?

How do you manage seafarers from different nationalities?

What factors do you think are necessary for good team performance?

Training and Coaching Skills (Officers only)

In command, how do you see your responsibility for training?

What do you think some of the challenges in training younger / older seafarers might be? How would you deal with these?

How would you motivate trainees?

What do you think makes a good trainer?

Leadership Skills (Officers only)

Explain one time you felt that you provided good training of another seafarer.

What are important factors for successful leadership?

Describe your leadership style.

Under what leadership style a subordinate develops best?

Give an example of a situation when a quick decision is preferable instead of discussing ‘how to do it’ before deciding.

Check if participated in special training programs like CRM, for example.

Can you explain the difference between accountability and responsibility?

What behaviours should a successful leader display?

What do you think is the difference between leadership and management?

What is the difference between a group of people and a team?

Is assertiveness important? In leaders? In team members? Why?

What do you think are the biggest challenges to successful leadership on board?

What are the consequences of a lack of good leadership?

Personal Qualities

What are you good at?

What are your strengths?

What are your weaknesses?

What do you enjoy most while at work?

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