Naval Architect
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 26 Awst 2025 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 25 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | EC4Y 0AH |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | Morson Talent |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 246071RCO-44957 |
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Our client Scottish Power Renewables are currently recruiting for a Naval Architect to join their team based in London or Glasgow on a contract basis initially. Ideally for this role they are looking for an experienced Naval Architect who has extensive marine engineering experience. For more information on this role see below:
Main Purpose of Job
This is a key role within the Offshore Renewables Business, focusing on the delivery of large-scale offshore wind projects and providing support to the Development, Construction and Operations teams during the projects life cycle while acting as the point person for the project for managing marine risks and the Marine Warranty Survey Consultant scope and execution of work.
The position will provide expertise and advice in de-risking warranted marine operations, including but limited to loadout, transportation, transfer, and installation operations across projects to significantly de-risk, from a marine risk perspective (pre-FID) and support the management of risk during the construction phase.
The position is responsible for defining and implementing robust and cost effective specialist technical strategies and plans, tendering, negotiating and managing multi-million dollar offshore contracts, planning and implementing delivery sites and logistics, leading delivery phase including coordination of multiple offshore contractors and associated interfaces, defining company and business specialist technical standards and technical acceptance criteria, and ensuring quality, best practices and excellent HSE performance are applied. The candidate will be managing Marine Warranty Surveyor activities and decisions from a senior specialist technical perspective across the offshore project portfolio.
The position will need to establish and maintain strong relationships with all major marine stakeholders including Insurance, Transportation and Installation, Engineering, Consultees, Communities, sub consultants and suppliers on an international basis.
The position may require frequent travel to various locations with occasional international travel.
Key Tasks
•Provide expert advice and managerial capability to the Project Construction Manager and Marine Operations department. Principally responsible to provide specialist domain knowledge and ensure due diligence requirements are met to execute operations to recognized U.S. and international standards with an appropriate level of risk, manage and provide guidance to complete appropriate risk management for marine operations and support the development and implementation of the offshore procedures for all matters pertaining to the planning and management of marine site operations.
•Provide expert marine warranty advice on appropriate bid levels / program strategies / specialist technical strategies / risk levels and commercial agreements relative to multi-million-dollar, 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 Warranty Surveyor 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.
.Manage all marine interfaces both internally, and where applicable, externally to ensure Marine Warranty Surveyor requirement compliance.
•Ensure that HSE 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 Warranty Surveyor 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 program without compromising HSE.
•Accountable for ensuring Marine Warranty Surveyor acceptance process, as appropriate is completed, and documented for marine spread, entering, operating and exiting operations on Avangrid sites.
•Attend Operations Daily calls to understand and maintain MWS acceptance and approval of warranted operations
•In event of incidents, or hazardous observation work with packages and MWS consultancy to ensure changes are implimented to prevent reoccurance and document LL.
•Ensure lessons learned 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.
•Provide marine technical and operational support to the Marine Operations Department and respective projects to enable consent, build and operation of offshore assets.
•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.
Key Criteria
Essential
•Bachelor’s degree in a Marine related subject, such as naval architecture or Credentialed Chief Mate Unlimited with shore-based experience, or equivalent professional experience.
•Must be familiar with the concept or warranted marine operations, standards and purpose
•US or UK Renewables planning knowledge.
•Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
•Project management capability.
•Comprehensive knowledge of HSE legislation associated with US offshore/marine construction projects.
•Comprehensive knowledge of, and ability to develop offshore procedures, standards, and guidance.
•Ability to work independently and as an effective leader.
•HSEQ experience within a marine environment including accident investigation and claims management.
•Flexible to travel around the US and overseas.
•IT literate with the ability to operate MS Office systems and other IT based project management software.
Desirable
•Significant experience of concept of marine assurance and MWS Consultancy
•Demonstrable knowledge of Offshore Renewable Energy Installations (OERI) legislation and consent requirements.
•Relevant experience within offshore/marine/renewable sectors.
•Experience of IMCA Inspection processes and documents CMID & MISW
•Extensive knowledge and experience of offshore/marine sector Health and safety management skills
Key Interfaces
Internal
•Project Construction Manager, with functional line to Marine Operations Department Manager
•Coordinate support and key expertise from Discipline Leads (specialist technical, electrical, civil mechanical, marine etc) to ensure packages and contract where marine operations are requirement meet the appropriate level of assurance compliance and minimize associated costs/ risks
•Construction Management and other site-based operations teams’ representative e.g. Q, H&S, E) and Installation Manager to coordinate vessel owner audits, vessel inspections and oversee marine coordination and support incident investigation.
•Vessel and logistics strategy planning analysts.
Risk and interface managers
•Engineering and O&M management teams to ensure marine operational requirements are specified and incorporated so that assets are effectively designed into operation to mitigate hazards and maximise availability whilst adhering to standard operational procedures.
•Insurance team (GERIE)
•Procurement team
External
•MWS Consultants
•Public and private stakeholders (Insurance companies, certification consultants
•Partner companies, where applicable
•Vessel Owner/ Operator and Tier 1 Contractors