Head Of Marine Managed Services
World Wide Recruitment Solutions
Total years of experience :21 years, 0 months
Headhunted to establish and set up marine manged service in an extremely challenging business environment within the UAE. Direct board reporting. Policy and procedure development. Management of crewing officers and 170 offshore personnel.
Achievements:
• Secured $10m contract for managed services for 3 vessels in West Africa and South America.
• Successfully managed 3 vessel contract with zero downtime from incomplete crew.
• Negotiated various resourcing and ship management contracts.
• Devised and implemented HR procedures
Recruited to provide HRM leadership to onshore and offshore teams. Direct board reporting. Policy and procedure development. Management of crewing officers. HR Business partner function. Re-organised crewing team to meet needs of company expansion. Managed development of crewing team and crewing of 4 new build vessels.
Achievements:
• Devised and implemented policy and procedures
• Improved external crewing compliance audit from very weak to satisfactory in 9 months.
• Improved crew retention by 20% in 6 months.
• Reduced costly overstays by 22% in 6 months.
• Successfully reduced travel costs by 12% by introducing new offshore logistics plan.
• Retention for offshore personnel 98%
Contracted to Viking Seatech (Jun13 to Aug 13) as Marine Business Development consultant to establish and build a marine division. Reviewed Viking policies and employment contracts to ensure marine and employment law compliance. Trained local staff on marine compliance, STCW, Flag State, ISPS, ISM etc
Achievements:
• Trained and developed staff regarding STCW requirements.
• Reports to senior management.
• Fulfilled contract brief to budget and on time.
Selected to implement leadership change to failing local office HR and crewing function for new drilling project. Liaised with onshore and offshore management regarding crewing and HR issues. Provided leadership advice and mentoring to local HR team regarding local employment requirements to clear backlog of visas etc.
Achievements:
• 37 (twp) short term visas, backlogged with MINPET for 3 months’, cleared within two weeks of joining.
• Devised and managed process and training to secure 45 long term visas as per timescale for Kizomba B project personnel.
• Resolved long term visa issues by close management of local agent.
• Successfully reduced travel costs by 10% by introducing new offshore logistics plan for 45 personnel
Managing team of 7 in house crewing staff to successfully crew 100+ vessels and 3000 offshore personnel with global assignments including new build and acquisition programme. Benchmarked HR function against competitors. Developed and managed HR management policies from hire to retire. Liaised directly with global operations managers and senior management team.
Achievements:
• Streamlined processes using manpower forecasting resulting in direct savings to company.
• Managed 2 x vessels working in Brazil ensuring that all invoices/costs were minimized and kept under budget.
• Completed 6 x week recruitment cycle for 6 new vessels into Saudi Arabia on time and to budget.
• Restructured crewing team to meet future needs of the business.
Managed and developed a team of 6 HR and crewing officers to manage 45 vessels on contract in Europe, Mediterranean & West Africa. Produced annual crewing budget presentations to global HQ board meetings. Conducted spot audits on manning contractors, medical and training centers.
Achievements:
• Streamlined manning agent contracts to simplify processes and provide savings to company.
• Successfully Reviewed compensation and benefits policy.
• Implemented and assisted new HRIS system.
• Restructured the HR team
• Successfully opened up communications between UK office and West Africa Offices
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Recruited to rescue failing crew management function. Managed and developed crewing team to manage 34 offshore standby vessels operating in North Sea. Budget holder and provided regular reports to board level management.
Achievements:
• Overseen assimilation of former Viking policies and procedures after takeover by Vroon.
• Improved recruitment and retention of crew.
• Developed and implemented far reaching changes to improve HRIS system.
• Lloyds registry audit improved from failed/non-compliance to full compliance during tenure.
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• HRM & Psychology • Change Management • Business Development & Strategy • Value Creating Management • Performance Management • Leadership & Empowerment
