Pilot - Ms

**Description**:
Job Title

**Pilot - MS**
Unit

**Marine Service Unit**
Job Purpose
The job holder is responsible to provide guidance to ships masters in achieving safe and timely navigation of vessels within AD Ports limits. To represent the Port Authority when on-board the vessel.
Key Responsibilities

The Marine Pilots agree to meet their obligations as a Marine Pilot, which includes but are not limited to:

- Acting with loyalty, honesty and good faith to the Authority
- including, but not limited to:

- The duty to exercise reasonable care and diligence.
- The duty not to make improper use of information;
- The duty not to make improper use of their position.
- Act appropriately as a Marine Pilot, including but not limited to using Authority resources efficiently and effectively:

- Treating colleagues with courtesy, consideration and sensitivity;
- Treat other port users and members of the public with courtesy and in a professional manner;
- Being customer focused;
- Comply with any AD Ports policies and procedures as amended from time to time.
- Any work as reasonably directed by the Line manager as required provided it is safe to do so and is within the level of the Marine Pilot's skill, competence and training undertaken;

Key Interaction
- Provision of efficient and competent pilotage services in accordance with the Port shipping requirements.
- Assist with the coordination of all arrangements for vessels arriving, anchoring, berthing, unberthing, shifting ship and departing.
- Completion of relevant pilotage documentation and accurate provision of information for charging.
- Liaise with pilot boat crew, tug boats, linesmen, and lines boat and coordinate towage requirements.

Required Qualification and Experience
- Masters Foreign Going certificate Class I (unlimited).
- Comprehensive knowledge of shipping, navigation and port operations.
- Actively seeks to keep informed regarding matters which may affect the day to day scheduling and methods of pilotage.