Engine & Machinery Overhaul and Riding Squads

Engine-room machinery overhaul and riding teams

Machinery work often has to fit a cargo schedule rather than a workshop schedule. Riding squads allow selected inspection, overhaul, measurement, cleaning, and repair tasks to continue during a voyage or across several ports, while larger teams can execute planned work alongside or in dry dock. vslSafety coordinates the trade mix, travel, tools, spares, reporting, and handover around a defined work package.

Typical machinery scopes

• Main and auxiliary diesel-engine inspection, cylinder-unit overhaul, bearings, fuel equipment, turbochargers, and measurements
• Generator, pump, compressor, purifier, heat-exchanger, valve, cooler, and auxiliary-machinery overhaul
• Engine-room piping, steel renewal, alignment support, chocking, machining, and approved welding
• Voyage repairs, maker service assistance, condition checks, planned-maintenance backlogs, and dry-dock support
• Pre-work condition records, measurement sheets, daily progress, spare-parts reconciliation, test results, and completion reports

Class, maker, and safety controls

Overhaul intervals normally follow maker running-hour guidance, condition-monitoring results, the company’s maintenance system, and class machinery survey arrangements rather than one universal statutory interval. Work affecting class items, pressure boundaries, crankshafts, propulsion, automation, or emissions equipment may require an approved method, maker involvement, material traceability, NDT, and surveyor attendance. A riding team must also be included in the vessel’s safe-work, induction, accommodation, immigration, and emergency arrangements.

Build a work package that can be priced

Provide the vessel schedule, equipment maker and model, serial number and running hours, job list, manuals and drawings, previous measurements, fault history, class recommendations, spare-parts list, tools onboard, lifting arrangements, and target completion point. State who supplies consumables, machining, transport, launches, cabins, PPE, visas, flights, and overtime approvals. Define acceptance tests and report format before mobilisation. Clear boundaries are especially important for voyage work, where access, vessel operation, and changing weather can affect productivity.