Offshore Manager

LMOceans; United States; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

LMOcans is seeking an Offshore Manager (Survey and Geosciences) for a Staff position to lead offshore geoscience and geotechnical drilling projects. The role combines on-board leadership with remote coordination from home bases and periodic client visits.

The successful candidate will oversee multidisciplinary teams, ensure safety and compliance, and maintain high data quality and project delivery standards across vessels and operating regions.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in offshore geotechnical drilling, site investigation, geoscience survey or similar vessel-based operations.
• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary offshore teams.
• Strong knowledge of drilling, sampling and offshore project execution.
• Excellent safety leadership and operational judgement.
• Experience managing clients, schedules, costs and operational risk.

Responsibilities

• Lead safe and efficient offshore project delivery.
• Coordinate drilling, sampling, coring, in-situ testing, logging and survey activities.
• Ensure compliance with company procedures, client requirements and applicable regulations.
• Lead daily planning, risk assessments, toolbox talks and operational meetings.
• Manage interfaces between project, drilling, laboratory, survey, deck and marine teams.
• Monitor progress, equipment readiness, downtime, costs and project risks.
• Maintain high standards of sample recovery, data quality and reporting.
• Act as the principal offshore contact for the client.
• Record and communicate delays, variations and changes to scope.
• Lead, coach and develop a multidisciplinary offshore team.
• Manage performance, competence, fatigue and employee welfare.
• Support incident investigations and close-out of corrective actions.
• Contribute to project planning, mobilisations, lessons learned and continuous improvement.
• Support reasonable onshore duties, training and business-development activities between assignments.

Skills

Offshore geoscience

Geotechnical drilling

Leadership

Client relations

Education

Degree or technical qualification

Tools

DP drillships experience

CPT

Downhole testing

Job description

BRAND NEW ROLE - Offshore Manager (Survey and Geosciences) - STAFF Position

Offshore Geoscience and Geotechnical Drilling

Location: Work from home and Offshore, with periodic attendance at company events and operational bases / client visits

Working Pattern: Periodic company offshore rotations, with reasonable flexibility for mobilisation, handover, training and operational requirements. WFH for all other occasions.

Role Purpose:

This brand new Offshore Manager will become an immediate permanent member of the company’s operational management team and its senior project representative onboard the drillship/assets.

This hire will become responsible for the safe, efficient and commercially effective delivery of offshore geoscience and geotechnical investigation projects and provide long‑term leadership, operational continuity and consistent application of company standards across vessels, projects and operating regions.

The Offshore Manager will lead the project, drilling, geotechnical, geoscience and operational teams onboard. The post-holder ensures that the work will be completed safely and in accordance with the project scope, client requirements, company policies, vessel procedures, applicable legislation and recognised industry standards. The Offshore Manager will work closely with the Vessel Master, who retains overriding authority for marine safety, navigation, security and operation of the vessel.

This role will have primary responsibility for all client interface, project execution and the coordination of drilling, sampling, in‑situ testing, logging and associated technical operations. Our client have deliberately set this out to be a staff role appointment to ensure that the role also contributes to the continued development of the company’s people, procedures, equipment, safety culture and operational capability - but also, so that this person can benefit from being involved in all of the client conversations and communication as well.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead safe and efficient offshore project delivery.
• Coordinate drilling, sampling, coring, in‑situ testing, logging and survey activities.
• Ensure compliance with company procedures, client requirements and applicable regulations.
• Lead daily planning, risk assessments, toolbox talks and operational meetings.
• Manage interfaces between project, drilling, laboratory, survey, deck and marine teams.
• Monitor progress, equipment readiness, downtime, costs and project risks.
• Maintain high standards of sample recovery, data quality and reporting.
• Act as the principal offshore contact for the client.
• Record and communicate delays, variations and changes to scope.
• Lead, coach and develop a multidisciplinary offshore team.
• Manage performance, competence, fatigue and employee welfare.
• Support incident investigations and close‑out of corrective actions.
• Contribute to project planning, mobilisations, lessons learned and continuous improvement.
• Support reasonable onshore duties, training and business‑development activities between assignments.

Authority

The Offshore Manager has authority to stop or suspend any activity that is unsafe, environmentally unacceptable or technically unsound.

• Significant experience in offshore geotechnical drilling, site investigation, geoscience survey or similar vessel‑based operations.
• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary offshore teams.
• Strong knowledge of drilling, sampling and offshore project execution.
• Excellent safety leadership and operational judgement.
• Experience managing clients, schedules, costs and operational risk.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Valid offshore medical, survival and role‑specific certification.
• Degree, technical qualification or equivalent relevant experience.
• Operational experience with DP drillships, geotechnical boreholes, coring, CPT and downhole testing.
• Experience in offshore wind, subsea cable, energy or marine infrastructure projects.
• Leadership, project‑management, well‑control or incident‑investigation qualifications.

Key Attributes

• Safety‑focused and decisive.
• Calm under pressure.
• Commercially aware.
• Technically credible.
• Strong people leader.
• Client‑focused and professional.
• Committed to the company’s long‑term success.

This is a new role for our client and whilst we appreciate there will likely be plenty of interest from the Freelance / Subcontractor market (as its a usually a freelance role type and shift pattern) - we must stress that this is not available in any form outside of a Staff role, simply because our client wants continuity of personnel for their client(s).