Peel Ports
Marine Compliance Manager
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Marine Compliance Manager
Are you an experienced compliance professional with a passion for marine safety and governance? We are seeking a Marine Compliance Manager to support Medway marine operations, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, driving continuous improvement, and promoting a strong safety culture across the business.
Your Role
In this role, you will lead marine compliance, assurance, and governance activities across Medway operations, ensuring adherence to statutory harbour authority duties, pilotage obligations, marine safety legislation, and the Port Marine Safety Code. You will maintain and continuously improve the Marine Safety Management System, oversee audits and compliance programmes, support risk assessment and incident management processes, and ensure licensing, training, and competence records remain accurate and up to date.
Working closely with marine leadership and operational teams, you will provide practical compliance guidance, drive continuous improvement initiatives, and promote a strong culture of safety, accountability, and operational excellence.
What you’ll bring
- Experience in marine compliance, safety management, auditing, assurance, or risk management within a port, harbour, maritime, logistics, or similarly regulated environment.
- Strong understanding of the Port Marine Safety Code, marine safety management systems, and harbour authority responsibilities.
- Ability to review risk assessments, incident reports, audit findings, corrective actions, and compliance records to support effective governance and continuous improvement.
- Analytical skills to identify trends and root causes, and recommend practical, proportionate solutions.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to translate complex regulatory requirements into clear guidance.
- Ability to build effective working relationships and collaborate with operational teams, regulators, auditors, and external partners.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, sound judgment, and a commitment to maintaining professional standards.
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Who are we?
Already one of the UK’s leading port and logistics companies, we are planning substantial capital investment over the next 5 years to achieve our vision of becoming the UK’s leading port operator. We have ambitious plans to grow and transform the supply chain to benefit our customers. Our investments are decarbonizing our operations, which in turn is helping us work towards our goal of having Net Zero Port Operations by 2040. Much of our success depends on our unrivalled facilities and technology. But in our sector, it comes down to having the right talent to enable our organisation to grow.
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What we can offer you
In addition to a competitive salary, we have a strong track record of developing our people to expand their skills and experience and develop their careers. Valuing and rewarding our workforce is important to us, which is why we offer a fantastic range of flexible benefits to choose from, such as:
- 27 Days Annual Leave (plus bank holidays)
- Up to 10% Matched Contribution Pension
- Peel Ports Flexible Benefits including salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, Critical Illness insurance, Gym Membership Scheme, Retail Vouchers, plus more!
- Commitment to learning and personal development – Last year we supported over 50,000 hours of training and personal development!
- We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to colleagues via our Employee Assistance Programme when required.
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