Lead Marine Assurance Manager

• Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland
• Salary: Market related
• Category

• Sector:
• Contract type Contract
• Consultant: Niamh Forbes

• Provide 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 Health, Safety and the Environment to ensure regulatory and legal compliance for offshore renewables projects.
• Provide expert advice and managerial capability to the Project Construction Manager and associated Marine Operations department. Principally responsible for the marine operation management team tasked to deliver
• specialist domain knowledge and endure due diligence requirements are met to secure consent and ensure compliance of consents from a navigation perspective, Manage and provide guidance to complete appropriate marine assurance for marine operations and support the development and implementation of the offshore procedures for all matters pertaining to the planning and management of marine operations.
• Provide expert marine assurance advice on appropriate bid levels / programme strategies / specialist technical strategies / risk levels and commercial agreements relative to a multi-million-pound, 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 assurance 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 shipping and navigation consenting matters, communications systems, shipping, offshore construction and Health, Safety and the Environment. Building strong relationships with all major marine stakeholders including Regulators, Shipping Authorities, Governments, Consultees, Communities, sub consultants and suppliers, on an international basis, will be key to deliver on consent requirements and to ensure that Development, Construction and Operational activities progress, in line with the project programme
• Act as point of contact for statutory Regulators in the project territories including the Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA), UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) (including release of NTMs) and Trinity House, Nautical & Offshore Renewable Energy Liaison (NOREL) Centres Régionaux Opérationnels de Surveillance et de Sauvetage CROSS, Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH) and United States Coastguard (USCG), depending on project jurisdiction.
• Provide commercial fishing liaison advice internally and externally e.g. Fishing Liaison with Offshore Wind and Wet Renewables Group FLOWW, Commercial Fishing Work Groups, if applicable
• Coordinate and cooperate with in-house offshore marine professionals in matters pertaining to marine related consent requirement and ensure compliance in execution, develop and apply in-house knowledge and understanding of maritime legislation and regulations in the project territories.
• Provide professional leadership, direction and development of the marine assurance team members, comprising employees working within several countries throughout Europe and the USA, to ensure professional technical standards are maintained (or enhanced) and the team delivers a consistent, high-quality, cost- effective service to the projects.
• Manage all marine interfaces both internally, and where applicable externally to ensure consenting and navigational requirement compliance.
• Resource the appropriate organisation structure to ensure delivery of the project or substantial work packages to programme and budget.
• 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, including lead in vessel deployment strategy and review of human factor/ ergonomic consideration in platform design and arrangements.
• Lead the implementation of offshore marine assurance 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 programme without compromising safety.
• Acting 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.
• Liaise closely with the Offshore HSE team in developing and updating the Safety Management System to ensure seamless procedures are developed & audits coordinated and minimised to reduce multiple attendances
• Directly lead the development of procedures in compliance with G+ Small Vessel Operating Guidelines such as Marine Coordination and Master's Handbook
• Manage external consultants and be commercially responsible for ensuring vessels are inspected and, where applicable owners audited to demonstrate compliance with Offshore Business SMS.
• Accountable for ensuring marine assurance process, as appropriate is completed, and documented for marine spread, entering, operating and exiting operations on SPR sites.
• Ensure lessons learnt 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.

• Sea-going experience as Master Mariner or Chief Officer, with directly relevant operational experience
• Operating as team leader for marine operations executed in the construction and maintenance of offshore wind farms.
• Demonstrable domain knowledge scope includes, but not limited to shipping and navigation consenting matters, communications systems, shipping and offshore construction Health Safety and Environment.
• Offshore/marine experience in gaining consenting / compliance.
• Educated to degree level in a relevant specialist technical discipline with a higher-level degree (e.g. MSc) desirable.
• Significant experience in leading office-based teams involved in large multidisciplinary work packages in international environments.
• Extensive experience in dealing with health and safety and environmental legislation associated with construction, marine and offshore projects.
• Proven experience in delivery of large packages/projects, including contract management, programme management, cost and risk control.
• Sound relationship management skills and confidence working with Project Directors and Senior Management.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to influence and develop key projects and business decisions.
• Excellent report writing, presentation skills and ability to summarize key parameters and drivers impacting the project and business.
• Ability to work, manage teams and manage decision making processes under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Sound planning and analysis skills with the ability to look forward and see / anticipate problems and thereafter plan and implements mitigating solutions to negate the effect of such problems.
• Proven ability in defining early Development Projects, giving accurate, concise and timely advice to development teams.
• Makes recommendations on the staff requirements to ensure delivery of projects (large packages) over a 4 - 5-year period.

• AVI accredited
• ISM Code auditor
• Kelvin TOP-SET

• GWO
• Offshore Medical
• HUET
• BOSIET

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