Mr Kwan Seng Fatt joined the Group in January 2013 as the General Manager for Newbuilding Division. He heads several teams which are primarily responsible in ship designing and product development, engineering, procurement and project management of the Group’s newbuilding of offshore support vessels and other related services, technical advisory support for the Group’s fleet of vessels and oversee all shipyard processes to ensure efficient operations.
Mr Kwan holds a Master of Science degree in Marine Engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) and a First-Class Engineer Certificate of Competency (Motorship) (Singapore). He is also a registered Chartered Engineer of Engineering Council (UK) and a Chartered Marine Engineer of the Institute of Marine Engineers, Scientists and Technologists (UK).
Mr Kwan possesses solid and extensive experiences in new shipbuilding, ship repairs, ship design and development, marine engineering systems, procurement of ship power system and equipment, project management and many other related services. He is instrumental in designing custom-built offshore support vessels for the Group that are proven to be exceptionally well received in the offshore support sector.
Prior to his current appointment, Mr Kwan was the Senior Vice President (Engineering) with Jaya Shipbuilding & Engineering Pte Ltd (a subsidiary of Jaya Holdings Ltd) for more than 5 years. He supervised on the ship design, product development and functional engineering, information technology, project procurement of major equipment for new shipbuilding and ship repairs of offshore support vessels and other related services. He was the Vice President (Engineering) of ST Marine Ltd (a company of ST Engineering Ltd) (a major shipbuilding and marine engineering company in Singapore), where he had served for more than 22 years in various positions in the areas of ship design/development and engineering for commercial, naval, para-military and offshore support vessels, shipbuilding processes, project management, information technology, and several other special projects. He had also served as the Engineer Officer on board foreign-going merchant ships for more than 8 years, including the rank of Chief Engineer with Neptune Orient Lines Limited, Singapore.
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