Operations Lead and Logistics Interface
Location: Paramaribo, SurinameContract Type: Contract Position (24 Months, Monthly Renewable)
Status: Onshore Rotation (4 weeks on, 4 weeks off)
Start Date: January 2027
Purpose of the Role
The Operations Lead and Logistics Interface will oversee co-activities and interfaces with logistics teams and other project packages from preparation and installation through completion of the SURF scope. The role covers in-country fabrication and construction support, subsea onshore integration, offshore installation preparation and execution, and demobilisation, ensuring that activities are safely planned and comply with standards, project specifications, industry standards, and applicable regulations.
Project Context
This assignment supports the execution phase of a major deepwater offshore development in Suriname. The role will work within a multidisciplinary project team delivering subsea production systems, deepwater pipelines, and FPSO interfaces, with a strong focus on technical quality, cost, schedule, greenhouse-gas reduction, and H3SEQ performance.
Main Responsibilities
- Apply relevant project rules, general specifications, and project specifications.
- Coordinate and follow up SURF installation co-activities and interfaces with logistics teams and other project packages.
- Support subsea onshore integration, testing, and offshore-readiness activities, including mobilisation of subsea equipment and tooling for component integration, onshore operations, and offshore installation.
- Ensure contractors establish suitable key performance indicators, follow-up tools, and reports, and track progress each week.
- Prepare and review SIMOPS and COMOPS dossiers for the SURF scope, ensuring activities, constraints, mitigations, and actions are properly tracked.
- Define and manage interfaces with contractors, other packages, and project stakeholders, including reviewing punch lists.
- Monitor documentation relating to co-activities and package interfaces, review daily reports from vessels and the FPSO, and ensure the handover process is followed correctly.
- Ensure planning meetings cover the complete SURF installation scope and associated constraints, supporting the line manager with interfaces involving the drilling and FPSO teams.
- Support the Construction and Installation Manager in identifying technical and quality-control issues at offsite construction locations and onshore bases, and lead their resolution with the contractor, engineering team, and relevant construction personnel.
- Ensure an orderly transition into commissioning activities and FOPS.
H3SEQ Responsibilities
- Demonstrate exemplary behaviour and personal commitment to H3SEQ policy, rules, and requirements.
- Maintain awareness of and comply with applicable statutory and H3SEQ standards.
- Ensure H3SEQ requirements and constraints are implemented throughout the assigned area of responsibility.
- Contribute to continuous H3SEQ performance improvement and the development of a strong safety culture.
- Participate actively in safety-awareness programmes and project initiatives.
Professional Conduct
- Carry out the role proactively and remain accountable for meeting agreed objectives.
- Adapt to changes in work practices, priorities, and project activities.
- Act in the best interests of the project at all times.
Qualifications and Experience Required
- Degree-level qualification or higher in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related discipline.
- Relevant offshore oil and gas installation experience, including large deepwater EPCI projects involving pipelines and FPSO facilities.
- Experience managing and delivering offshore and subsea projects, particularly those involving subsea equipment and the integration of major modules within onshore plants, such as hydraulic power units and chemical skids.
- Practical knowledge of equipment delivery, HSE scope, and the constraints associated with simultaneous project activities.
- A practical problem-solving approach and the ability to achieve outcomes involving several stakeholders.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively within a small, flexible, and multidisciplinary team.
- Strong understanding of logistics and the factors affecting the adequacy and timely delivery of services, equipment, and materials.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to maintain a shared understanding of technical issues, progress, and objectives across a dispersed project team.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary and multicultural team.
- Strong self-management, time-management, priority-setting, and relationship-management skills.
- Fluent written and spoken English.
Training and Certification
- Current BOSIET, T-BOSIET, or FOET certification, as applicable.
- Golden Rules training.
- Valid OGUK or equivalent offshore medical certificate.
- Valid seaman's book.
- Valid OPITO CA-EBS certification.