Offshore Operations Superintendent F / M

Alcatel Submarine Networks; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international firm in submarine technology seeks an Offshore Operations Supervisor to oversee cable installation projects. The role involves maintaining safety standards, coordinating with various stakeholders, and ensuring project integrity during operations. Candidates should have marine operations experience, strong documentation skills, and excellent communication abilities. Proficiency in MS Office, particularly Project and Excel, is required. This position is crucial for the successful delivery of marine projects and ensuring compliance with QHSE regulations.

Qualifications

• Experience as Master, Chief / Operations Officer, or Surveyor Team Leader in cable installation.
• Minimum years of relevant offshore installation operations experience required.
• Excellent English communication skills, French skills beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Supervise offshore cable installation and report progress.
• Ensure compliance with QHSE standards and safety protocols.
• Coordinate with stakeholders and manage operational challenges.

Skills

Marine operations experience

Understanding of offshore installation processes

Documentation management skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work under pressure

Tools

MS Office Suite

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Company

Alcatel Submarine Networks stands as an industry leader with over , km of optical submarine systems globally – that’s nearly times the Earth’s circumference.

We cater to a wide range of needs: from traditional telecom applications and webscale service provider infrastructures to offshore oil and gas projects.

Role Purpose

To supervise and report the progress of offshore cable installation and repair projects on ASN and third‑party vessels.

Ensuring the safe and timely delivery of all marine engineering technical services and solutions in the ASN fleet.

Together with the Fleet Services team in ASN Marine, develop and implement engineering solutions for subsea cable infrastructure installation including the installation of associated subsea hardware both in‑house and external third‑party solutions.

To support the LDA offshore vessel teams to achieve the installation or repair SOW and to drive and ensure a positive awareness of offshore QHSE standards.

Prime Responsibilities of the OOS

• Operations Management

  Review previous operational meeting minutes to assess the vessel for project readiness, reporting on the technical status of the lay spread equipment.

  Monitoring and reporting daily progress of the operation, ensuring the contractually agreed plan of work, procedures, controls and work methods are followed and adhered to.

  Comprehension of Survey operations is highly valued to provide support to the onboard Survey Team Leader to verify project parameters and installation protocol.

  Having the ability to provide support with regards to complex installation activities such as Branching Unit deployment calculations: for verification of cable re‑routing in the context of risk mitigation during installation activities (to safeguard subsea assets from fish aggregating devices (FADs)).

  For O&G projects, a strong understanding of geodetics, projections, metrology and application of dimensional control survey offsets is required to verify the project parameters prior to commencement of operations.

  Interfacing with the ASN Marine Offshore Operations Manager (OOM) and vessel Master / Operations Manager, agreeing all operational and technical matters, to ensure a favourable outcome for all aspects of the operation (HSE, Technical and Commercial).

  Reacting to dynamic situations, contributing to identifying solutions to unplanned events and implementing the necessary changes to the work plans to ensure that the safety of the operations is maintained by all involved, and to ensure a technically acceptable outcome to ASN and the Client.

  Communicating the agreed solution to the ASN Project Marine Manager (PMM) ensuring the right methods are being used to implement the solution.

  Ensuring that the Client Representative is kept informed of the project status and changes to activities that are carried out in the field of operations and coordinating with the Client Representative on any SIMOPS in‑field.

  On completion of an operation, hold a wash‑up meeting with all the relevant parties onboard and issue a report / minutes of the meeting to the OOM and ASN Fleet Services team, plus agreed distribution list.

• Asset Integrity Management

  Ensuring the integrity of the ASN supplied submarine fibre‑optic cable products is maintained throughout the installation or maintenance operation.

  Highlighting any issues arising from the onboard ASN fibre‑optic cable Jointing and Testing teams to the PMM. Reporting any asset integrity issues via the IIR (Installation Incident Report) and MIIR (Marine Installation Incident Report) forms and discussing the respective reports with the ASN HSE department.

  Including any asset integrity concerns that arise during the loading / offloading of cable and subsea assets.

• QHSE & Incident Reporting

  Ensuring the Health & Safety of the ASN team, and ensuring that the subcontractor complies with the contractual HSE requirements, through toolbox meetings and risk assessments.

  IIRs / MIIRs must be compiled with all incidents must be reported to the PMM. A separate incident report will be completed for each incident irrespective of whether the subcontractor also submits an incident report. This is an internal report and should only be distributed within ASN.

Experience / Qualifications

• Marine operations experience as Master, Chief / Operations Officer or Surveyor Team Leader within the cable installation industry.
• Extensive familiarity and understanding of offshore installation and QHSE processes.
• Minimum years of relevant offshore installation operations experience.
• Ability to identify and manage processes coordination and solutions for multiple stakeholders across the marine operations activity.
• Highly developed documentation management skills.
• Excellent computer skills are required – high level of familiarity with MS Office Suite of programs including Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel.
• Excellent English written and oral communication skills.
• French language skills beneficial.
• Ability to work autonomously and in a cross‑functional team environment.
• Ability to prioritise workload and work under pressure.