Marine Warranty Surveyor Manager

Marine Warranty Survey Manager

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Start: ASAP

Duration: 12 year rolling contract

Shift Pattern: Monday-Friday, 8 hours a day

Job Description:

The Lead Marine Warranty Surveyor Manager is a key role within the Offshore Renewables Business, focusing on the delivery of large-scale offshore wind projects and providing support to the Development, Construction and Operations teams during the projects life cycle while acting as the point person for the project for managing marine risks and the Marine Warranty Survey Consultant scope and execution of work.

The position will provide expertise and advice in de-risking warranted marine operations, including

but limited to loadout, transportation, transfer, and installation operations across projects to

significantly de-risk, from a marine risk perspective (pre-FID) and support the management of risk

during the construction phase.

The position is responsible for defining and implementing robust and cost effective specialist

technical strategies and plans, tendering, negotiating and managing multi-million dollar offshore

contracts, planning and implementing delivery sites and logistics, leading delivery phase including coordination of multiple offshore contractors and associated interfaces, defining company and

business specialist technical standards and technical acceptance criteria, and ensuring quality,

best practices and excellent HSE performance are applied. The candidate will be managing

Marine Warranty Surveyor activities and decisions from a senior specialist technical perspective

across the offshore project portfolio.

The position will need to establish and maintain strong relationships with all major marine

stakeholders including Insurance, Transportation and Installation, Engineering, Consultees,

Communities, sub consultants and suppliers on an international basis.

The position may require frequent travel to various locations with occasional international travel.

Responsibilities:

 Lead Marine Warranty Surveyor Manager provides leadership on key specialist technical

advice, assessment, and recommendations to ensure delivery of substantial multi-contract

packages within time, to budget and quality following the highest industry practice and

observing the maximum respect for HSE to ensure regulatory and legal compliance for

offshore renewables projects.

 Provide expert advice and managerial capability to the Project Construction Manager and

Marine Operations department. Principally responsible to provide specialist domain

knowledge and ensure due diligence requirements are met to execute operations to

recognized U.S. and international standards with an appropriate level of risk, manage and

provide guidance to complete appropriate risk management for marine operations; and

support the development and implementation of the offshore procedures for all matters

pertaining to the planning and management of marine site operations.

 Provide expert marine warranty advice on appropriate bid levels / program strategies /

specialist technical strategies / risk levels and commercial agreements relative to multimillion-

dollar, multi-disciplinary, multi-contract work package, to ensure that cost effective

specialist technical solutions are identified, fully evaluated and the risk profile is fully

understood by the project.

 Ensure that all Marine Warranty Surveyor assessment, advice, and recommendations are

fully documented in accordance with all internal procedures and industry best practice, and

that appropriate technical and commercial due diligence (whether internal or external)

exists to support those business decisions.

 Provide specialist advice on Marine Warranty Surveyor approval matters, communications

systems, offshore construction and HSE. Build strong relationships with all major marine

stakeholders including Insurance, Engineering, Marine Assurance and Transportation and

Installation departments. Role will be key to deliver on all warranted marine operations to

ensure that Development, Construction and Operational activities progress, in line with the

project program.

 Lead and develop in-house offshore marine professionals in matters pertaining to Marine

Warranty Surveyor requirements and ensure compliance in execution, develop, and apply

in-house knowledge and understanding of maritime standard and regulations in the project.

 Provide professional leadership, direction, and development of the Marine Warranty

Surveyor program to ensure professional technical standards are maintained (or

enhanced) and consistent, high-quality, cost-effective service is delivered to the projects.

 Manage all marine interfaces both internally, and where applicable, externally to ensure

Marine Warranty Surveyor requirement compliance.

 Support resourcing the appropriate organization structure to ensure delivery of the project

or substantial work packages to program and budget.

 Ensure that HSE requirements are fully considered and adhered to in design to ensure

compliance with legislation and industry best practice, including lead in vessel deployment

strategy and review of human factor/ ergonomic consideration in platform design and

arrangements.

 Lead the implementation of offshore Marine Warranty Surveyor standards, procedures,

tools, best practices and quality requirements appropriate for large scale offshore windfarm

multi-contract work packages to ensure that packages are delivered according to

specification, budget and program without compromising HSE.

 Act as a member of the Project Management Committee, together with the Project Director

and Package Leads, where key project decisions (Technical and Commercial) are

considered and approved to secure investment best value.

 Manage external consultants and support internal team as manager commercially

responsible for ensuring warranted operations demonstrate compliance with Marine

Warranty Surveyor standards without delay to project.

 Accountable for ensuring Marine Warranty Surveyor acceptance process, as appropriate

is completed, and documented for marine spread, entering, operating, and exiting

operations on sites.

 Ensure lessons learned regarding offshore wind farm development and construction are

captured and shared across the different projects (large work packages). Establish the

right mechanisms for this process and ensure that the specialist technical team implements

them to enhance business value.

 Manage tender process, assessment and contract management for Marine Warranty

Survey and other specialist marine services.

 Provide marine technical and operational support to the Marine Operations Department

and respective projects to enable consent, build and operation of offshore assets.

 Ensure that health and safety and environmental requirements are fully considered and

adhered to in design to ensure compliance with legislation and industry best practice.

Requirements:

 Bachelor’s degree in a Marine related subject, such as naval architecture or Credentialed Chief Mate Unlimited with shore-based experience, or equivalent professional experience.

 Must be familiar with the concept or warranted marine operations, standards, and purpose.

 Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

 Project management capability.

 Comprehensive knowledge of HSE legislation associated with US offshore/marine construction projects.

 Comprehensive knowledge of, and ability to develop offshore procedures, standards, and guidance.

 Ability to work independently and as an effective leader.

 HSEQ experience within a marine environment including accident investigation and claims management.

 Flexible to travel around the US and overseas.

 IT literate with the ability to operate MS Office systems and other IT based project management software.

 US or UK Renewables planning knowledge.

If interested please apply within.