PO Box 283, Newcastle, NSW, 2300

Jeanine Drummond​

Industry Experience

Jeanine is an experienced maritime transportation senior leader with thirty years of operational experience across shipping, ports and supply chain. Currently, Managing Director and Principal Marine Advisor with Integral Maritime, Jeanine has led and contributed subject matter expertise to various projects across ports governance, pilotage standards, port resource management, emerging port developments, maritime workplace inclusion, safety management systems, and workshop facilitation.

Starting her maritime career as a deck officer trainee with ASP Ship Management in 1995, Jeanine worked on a variety of different vessel types, and trades, both on the Australian coast and overseas.

Jeanine later joined Teekay Shipping where she worked her way through the ranks on products tankers, crude oil tankers and floating, storage and offtake (FSO’s) facilities to Master. While at Teekay Jeanine had opportunities to transfer into shore-based secondment roles in chartering, voyage operations, HSEQ, purchasing, ships agency and project roles that took her to Sydney, Vancouver, Singapore and Houston.

In 2006, an opportunity to be part of a new build Floating, Production, Storage and Offtake project took Jeanine to where she completed marine commissioning at the yard in South Korea and associated delivery, production commissioning and first oil on-site off Exmouth, Western Australia.

Jeanine moved permanently to a shore-based career in 2007 firstly working as a tug master in the port of Gladstone, Queensland, gaining experience both in the harbour and salvage towage operations. Later Jeanine moved into providing marine advisory services to organisations involved with port development projects in the port of Gladstone, working closely with port regulators and operators.

Jeanine then moved into supply chain and logistics with a role as Marine Advisor with Caltex (now Ampol) Australia. In this role, she she was responsible for ensuring safe tanker and terminal operations and preventing/responding to pollution incidents in all ports around Australia where Caltex operated.

Jeanine moved on to a position with the Port Authority of New South Wales, starting as Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) Manager before moving into the role of Marine Operations General Manager and Deputy Harbour Master for Sydney Harbour and Port Botany. This then led to Jeanine being appointed to the role of Harbour Master, Newcastle and Yamba. This gave her exposure to a wide range of functions including port management and regulation, pilotage operations, port emergency and pollution response, port development, contract management, workforce management and stakeholder relationships.

Jeanine is co-founder of the Nautical Institute’s South East Australian Branch’s Women in Maritime initiative, and past Chair of the International Ports and Harbours Women’s Forum. She works collaboratively across industry organisations to enhance their employee engagement, well-being and operational safety through improved workplace culture with a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion of all people.

Jeanine is a non executive board member of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, University of Tasmania’s Australian Maritime College and the Australian Mariners Welfare Society.

Jeanine Is An Advocate For Diverse, Equitable And Inclusive Maritime Workplaces As Well As Environmental Protection, Maritime Safety, And Sustainability. She Enjoys Working With People Who Are Passionate About Their Projects And Encourage An Engaged And Committed Work Environment.

Project Partners

Industry Partners

With an extensive industry network, Integral Maritime is well-placed to source the right partners to fit the necessary skill sets, expertise and experience of a team to satisfy the unique requirements of our clients.

  • Regulatory and Policy Framework
  • Stakeholder Management and Communication
  • Strategic Planning
  • Operational Safety & Risk Management
  • Defence Forces Liaison
  • Technical Writer
  • Workplace Culture
  • Pilotage
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
  • Safety Management Systems
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