USA: Effective May 1, the American Bureau of Shipping will introduce a new organisational structure designed to improve its service delivery to clients and reinforce technical capabilities.
The new organisational structure is similar to the successful approach the society has used to administer its global survey services in recent years and is intended to provide better administration of its ship and offshore engineering services, more technical support to the engineering staff conducting plan reviews and promote greater technical consistency.
The key component of this new organisational structure is the creation of Assistant Chief Engineer (ACE) positions within each operating division, reporting directly to the ABS Chief Engineer Robert Giuffra in the corporate headquarters in Houston.
The ACEs will be responsible for technical engineering standards and interpretations in each division, technical monitoring of the engineering work undertaken, investigating client feedback, and providing guidance to the Divisional Vice Presidents of Engineering on technical issues that arise.
Appointed to these new positions are Robert Spencer in the Europe division, based in London, Roy Bleiberg in the Americas division, based in Houston, and Wei Bao (Bill) Shi in the Pacific division, based in Singapore.
The existing Vice President of Engineering positions remain. However, with Robert Spencer, currently Vice President of Engineering within the European division moving into the ACE position, Dimitrios Kostaras has been named ABS Vice President of Engineering for Europe. The position will also be relocated from London to the ABS office in Piraeus.
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