Marine Lead

Job Purpose

Job Context & Key Challenges

• Act as Marine SME for vessel and marine unit selection, including technical bid evaluations, inspections, and assurance processes.
• Manage interfaces between project teams, marine operations, and external parties.
• Ensure compliance with marine operations procedures, specifications, and international maritime regulations.
• Maintain effective communication across multiple stakeholders to resolve safety, quality, and operational issues.
• Serve as focal point and custodian for all marine assurance activities related to floating and marine assets engaged in the project.
• Demonstrate strong safety leadership and ability to manage changing priorities, emergent issues, and unplanned events without compromising ongoing operations.
• Role may be shared across projects depending on workload and project requirements.

Mobilisation Phase

• Ensure vessel suitability surveys are carried out by approved third?party inspectors, with findings closed out effectively and on time.
• Verify validity of inspection reports and oversee safety inductions for all project personnel, crew, and passengers prior to offshore departure.
• Review and vet marine assurance documentation submitted by contractors and steward corporate safety campaigns and initiatives.
• Provide SME input to marine-related procedures and participate in risk assessments.

Execution Phase

• Monitor marine unit acceptance certification and manage renewal dossiers in line with marine operations procedures.
• Manage periodic inspections, ensuring compliance with maritime conventions, contractual obligations, and industry standards.
• Act as focal point for marine defects and breakdown management, including close?out coordination between stakeholders.
• Support and participate in marine incident and accident investigations, capturing and sharing lessons learned.
• Contribute to marine progress meetings, reporting KPIs, performance standards, and compliance metrics.

De?Mobilisation Phase

• Manage marine unit demobilisation or transfer, close out acceptance processes, and conduct performance reviews at charter completion.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marine, engineering, or science disciplines or diploma in marine/nautical studies
• STCW II/2 or STCW III/2 certification

Experience & Knowledge

• Minimum 8 years seagoing experience, including at least 1 year as Master or Chief Engineer
• Offshore marine operations experience within the oil & gas sector
• Strong knowledge of international maritime regulations, codes, and standards
• Experience with offshore construction vessels, barges, heavy lifts, transportation, installation, and subsea support activities
• Regional experience advantageous
• Marine consultancy or warranty survey experience desirable (OVID preferred)

Skills

• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Excellent technical judgment and problem?solving ability
• Well?organised, proactive, and able to manage multiple priorities
• Proficient in Microsoft Office