Offshore-Crew Transfer Safety Recovery Leader

The mandate

The marine safety director resigned after two technician-transfer incidents and conflicting internal investigations. Fleet growth brought different vessel designs, fender systems, masters, charterer limits and wind-farm access rules under one commercial schedule. Weather criteria are treated as universal although approach and transfer consequence vary. Technicians can decline, but operational pressure reaches them after mobilisation. A temporary executive must restore consistent, vessel-specific transfer judgement.

Two weeks is allowed to mobilise the executive, but the eight-month operating recovery must remain separate from both the permanent search and the independent incident process. Evidence preservation, restriction of unsupported vessel-site-person combinations and definition of transfer envelopes occupy the first 30 days. Dispatch, toolbox and abort practice are then observed across two seasonal operating cycles. Final-stage work closes critical actions, verifies behaviour during ordinary jobs and makes the successor coordinate live marine movements.

Successor control begins after four proofs are accepted: approved transfer envelopes for all 28 vessels; current readiness for every technician cohort; identical limits in dispatch and site systems; and two operating cycles in which abort decisions occur without retaliation or informal override. The transfer pack remains live, carrying incident-independent actions, vessel and site exceptions, charter conflicts, competence gaps, maintenance conditions and the next seasonal exercise-and-audit plan.

The interim may restrict vessels, sites or transfer combinations, direct shore marine staff, require training and maintenance action, and approve urgent safety spend up to NOK 18 million. Vessel withdrawal beyond thirty days, contract amendment, master removal, permanent appointments and capital above delegation require authorised approval. Masters retain navigation and final transfer safety; technicians retain stop-work rights; the interim cannot determine investigation blame.

Incident liability, vessel acquisition, long-term charter strategy, turbine-access engineering and permanent organisation design are outside scope. The leader will separate recovery evidence from investigation findings and refer design matters to qualified owners. This assignment is to restore safe routine decisions, not to produce an expert report or guarantee weather availability.

Why this seat is open

A sudden resignation followed two incidents while the fleet remained committed to seasonal maintenance campaigns. Existing managers cannot credibly harmonise limits they previously allowed to diverge. The board has created a temporary authority to protect work and evidence while independent investigations and permanent recruitment continue.

What you will own

• Establish vessel-site-person transfer envelopes covering motion, wind, visibility, fender, access, competence and recovery conditions.
• Restrict unsupported combinations immediately and record the evidence required before reinstatement.
• Align dispatch, wind-farm control, master, technician and charterer information before mobilisation and final approach.
• Protect stop-work and abort decisions through reporting, review and explicit prohibition on schedule-based retaliation.
• Conduct ten observations outside staged audit conditions and close recurring toolbox, maintenance and communication gaps.
• Reconcile charter availability expectations with safe envelopes without revising contracts beyond delegation.
• Induct the successor through live restrictions, incident-independent actions, vessel conditions and seasonal operating evidence.

Candidate qualifications

• Held marine safety or fleet authority across offshore crew-transfer vessels serving multiple wind-farm operators.
• Has restricted a profitable vessel-site combination after motion, equipment or competence evidence changed.
• Understands transfer envelopes, fender interaction, master judgement, technician readiness and site-control interfaces.
• Can protect independent incident processes while acting quickly on safety evidence that cannot wait.
• Challenged charterers and schedule owners without weakening master or technician stop-work authority.
• Completed a permanent leadership handover after proving revised behaviour through normal seasonal offshore operations and disrupted weather periods.

Non-negotiables

• Available in Stavanger within two weeks and able to complete ten offshore vessel and site observations.
• Brings direct crew-transfer safety authority; wind-farm HSE auditing alone is insufficient.
• Accepts master, technician, investigation, contract and board boundaries without informal override.
• Will disclose vessel operator, charterer, wind-farm, equipment and investigation interests before appointment.

1. 49 words maximum. Describe a vessel-site transfer combination you restricted despite schedule and charter pressure.
2. 49 words maximum. Confirm your Stavanger start date and the transfer systems under your authority.
3. 49 words maximum. How did you prove that abort rights operated without retaliation outside a staged exercise?