Offshore Support-Fleet Utilisation Recovery Leader — Marine Energy

The mandate

Fleet availability has risen while productive offshore days fall because maintenance release, crew readiness, port windows, deck configuration and customer call-offs are planned separately. Several vessels wait technically available but commercially unusable; others sail with avoidable empty legs. The marine operations executive resigned after charter claims and common-mode equipment outages exposed incomplete fleet-level decision ownership.

The interim begins within fourteen days for eleven months, taking fleet operating authority through maintenance rebalance, contract recovery and two offshore campaign peaks. The first seven weeks reconstruct vessel-day truth and loss causality; subsequent waves reset scheduling, readiness and customer handoffs. Permanent recruitment begins after month five, with eight weeks of paired fleet command and two live call-off cycles before handover.

Handover requires vessel-day genealogy, technical and crew readiness, configuration standards, port and base capacity, charter-call rules, maintenance priorities, customer evidence and voyage economics. Completion is proved when the successor absorbs simultaneous vessel failure and port closure, reallocating work without marine-safety breach, contract misinformation, uncontrolled fatigue, hidden empty sailing or interim assistance.

The leader may reallocate vessels within charter and technical limits, resequence planned maintenance, reserve port and base capacity, approve substitute tonnage within R$65 million, replace recovery leads and settle operational claims within delegation. Marine assurance, vessel certification, contract amendment, permanent supplier award, workforce dismissal and expenditure above authority require accountable approval. Masters retain command of their vessels.

Fleet acquisition, customer pricing, new offshore-field design, collective bargaining, regulatory representation and replacement of fleet-management systems are excluded. The interim cannot pressure a master or technical authority, misstate readiness, exceed fatigue rules, substitute a non-compliant vessel or improve utilisation by deferring critical maintenance. Commercial allocation must never be presented as navigational command.

Why this seat is open

The prior executive left when a vessel-day review showed that availability measures excluded port, crew, configuration and customer usability. Temporary fleet authority is needed ahead of campaign peaks while the group recruits a permanent operator able to integrate marine safety with contract and technical reality.

What you will own

• Reconstruct all productive vessel days across technical status, crew, configuration, port, charter, voyage and customer readiness.
• Decide daily fleet allocation and maintenance sequence inside approved marine, contractual and certification boundaries.
• Establish call-off and substitution evidence that prevents nominally available vessels entering infeasible assignments.
• Align port slots, shore-base capacity, spares, crew changes and customer mobilisation with campaign demand.
• Govern operational claims through event, custody, communication, contract and cost evidence.
• Command six scenarios covering vessel failure, port closure, crew shortage, equipment recall and demand conflict.
• Transfer fleet authority after the successor completes two call-off cycles and one compound disruption.

Candidate qualifications

• Held fleet-level authority across offshore support vessels serving multiple energy customers and programmes.
• Recovered productive vessel days constrained by maintenance, crew, port, configuration and complex multi-customer charter conflicts.
• Managed technical, commercial and operational handoffs while preserving independent vessel-master and marine-assurance authority.
• Built vessel-day economics separating availability, utilisation, empty sailing, waiting and recoverable contract loss.
• Negotiated substitute capacity and customer recovery without misrepresenting safety or technical readiness.
• Transferred offshore fleet command through multiple live call-off cycles and compound disruption successfully.

Non-negotiables

• Available within fourteen days for Rio residence, ten vessel residencies and six simulations.
• Direct offshore support-fleet command is required; shipping finance or chartering alone is insufficient.
• Will disclose operators, energy clients, yards, lessors, ports, suppliers and maritime advisers.
• Will not override masters, certify vessels, amend contracts, exceed fatigue rules or defer critical work.

1. 49 words maximum. Describe a fleet where reported availability overstated commercially usable offshore vessel capacity.
2. 49 words maximum. How did you reallocate work without weakening a master’s or technical authority’s decision?
3. 49 words maximum. State your Rio availability and the largest offshore fleet you commanded.