Marine Specialist

Job Title: Marine Specialist (Offshore)
Working Location: Qatar Offshore

Contract Type: Contract
Contract Duration: 36 months (with possibility of extension)
Work Schedule: Rotation - 28 days on / 28 days off

Technical Department
Major Projects

Key Responsibilities

Job Purpose
- Support the overall implementation of project marine assurance and governance processes including regular inspections and verifications onboard project marine spreads.
- Lead the verification and validity of Project Marine Units, Crew, and Personnel documentation in compliance with International and company regulations to enable safe and efficient offshore marine operations.

Reporting and Relationships
- Reports to Marine Lead (Offshore).
- Direct reports: None

Internal Contacts
- Frequent contact with company Marine Department.
- Periodic contact with various Major Project teams.

External Contacts
- Frequent contact with EPC Contractor.
- Periodic contact with Third Parties.

Job Context & Major Challenges
- Work in a dynamic project environment, supporting key technical interfaces between the EPC Contractor, Marine Central Function, and company Marine Department.
- Major challenges include balancing the needs and timelines of diverse project teams while ensuring adherence to regulatory and procedural standards, often in time-sensitive scenarios.

Financial Dimension
- As defined for this job level in the Delegation of Authority and/or approved budget.

Generic Accountabilities - All Employees

Safety, Health & Environment
- Ensure all activities are undertaken in compliance with Company Safety, Health and Environment and Quality policies, regulations, and standards.

Qatarization Program
- Contribute to the development of Qatari employees. This is a condition of employment for expatriate employees.

Firewall Compliance
- Ensure all activities undertaken comply with anti-trust and competition laws and company firewall policies and procedures.

Key Job Accountabilities
1. Review and steward Marine Units Certifications to ensure compliance with international marine regulations, company, and project requirements. Validate Marine Units Crew Certifications to maintain operational compliance and readiness. Contribute to overall project marine assurance and compliance reporting.
2. Maintain full traceability of marine units and crew compliance. Track and update compliance documents to reflect real-time status of marine units and crew credentials and prevent lapses in mandatory marine documentation.
3. Assist on project marine assurance and compliance reporting and KPI monitoring, in accordance with company requirements.
4. Monitor regulatory adherence and support Project Management Team (PMT) with project documentation review to ensure compliance with industry, company, and project marine requirements and specifications.
5. Attend marine units and perform regular inspections to verify compliance with international marine regulations, company Marine Operations Procedure, and project requirements.
6. Provide site support and onboard verification during marine incident investigations, mechanical breakdown management, and fit for service protocols/reporting.
7. Facilitate and support offshore situational awareness and emergency response readiness onboard marine units; support onboard safety and welfare campaigns; promote sharing and implementation of lessons learned and best practices.
8. Support HAZIDs, risk assessments, project technical reviews, and marine execution readiness (RTP) sessions. Coordinate with EPC Contractor Marine team to ensure alignment in marine assurance requirements.
9. Contribute to capturing marine operations lessons learned, support areas of improvement identification and implementation, and follow up on marine incident investigation corrective actions.
10. Act as PMT Marine Representative onboard project marine units to ensure technical objectives are met within approved procedures and manage technical marine-related interfaces between PMT, site PMT, Marine Warranty Surveyor (MWS), Contractor, and Marine Crew effectively.

Requirements

Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in sciences, marine disciplines, or engineering OR Diploma in marine or nautical disciplines, and STCW II/1, STCW III/1 Certification.

Knowledge and/or Experience
- 8 years marine operations experience.

Technical and Business Skills
- Knowledge of national and international maritime and shipping regulations.
- Strong technical and operational marine knowledge.
- Experience handling offshore marine units operating in the oil and gas industry.
- Knowledge of critical marine operations including offshore installation, construction vessels and barges, heavy lifts, transportation, pipe and cable lay, jack-up accommodation barges, and dive support vessels.
- High level of proficiency in written and spoken English.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a focus on teamwork and the ability to communicate and interact within a PMT.
- Computer literacy with regular use of professional office and technical applications.