Crewing Officer/Crewing Team Leader (Subsea)
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Posted 14 days ago
About the role
- Diploma or Bachelor's Degree in Maritime Studies, Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- Experience in marine, offshore, or oil & gas crewing coordination.
- Strong understanding of offshore crew mobilization, certification management, travel coordination, and personnel logistics.
- Working knowledge of STCW requirements, MLC 2006, offshore crewing practices, and client compliance requirements.
- Experience coordinating with vessel owners, manning agencies, offshore personnel, logistics providers, and immigration authorities.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple crew rotations, project schedules, and certification deadlines simultaneously.
- Excellent communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.- Experience using crewing management systems such as CrewLogix, FrontLine, or equivalent is preferred.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and personnel management systems.
- Responsible for coordinating crewing operations for offshore survey, diving, and subsea personnel, ensuring timely mobilization, certification compliance, travel arrangements, and workforce readiness across active and upcoming offshore campaigns.
- Working closely with the Crewing Team Leader, project teams, vessel owners, logistics providers, and offshore personnel, you will ensure crew deployment is executed efficiently and in compliance with statutory, client, and company requirements.
- Coordinate the mobilization and demobilization of offshore survey, diving, subsea, and marine personnel, ensuring crew are deployed in accordance with project schedules and operational requirements.
- Monitor crew certification validity, including STCW, IMCA, ADNOC, offshore medicals, visas, passports, and client-specific approvals, ensuring all personnel remain fully compliant before deployment.
- Prepare, verify, and submit crew documentation required for flag state, port state, immigration, client approvals, and vessel onboarding processes.
- Arrange crew travel, accommodation, airport transfers, and port transportation in coordination with logistics providers to ensure seamless crew changes and project mobilizations.
- Maintain accurate crew records within the crewing management system, updating qualifications, certifications, rotations, availability, contact details, and employment records.
- Monitor crew rotation schedules, identifying upcoming manning requirements, certificate expiries, approval delays, and resource gaps while escalating issues to the Crewing Team Leader.
- Liaise with vessel owners' crewing departments and third-party vessel operators to coordinate crew changes, approval status, and manning requirements for chartered and externally managed vessels supporting marine operations.
- Track third-party vessel crew certification, competency, and client approval status, proactively identifying risks that could impact vessel readiness or project schedules.
- Prepare crew lists, manning documentation, flag state crew agreements, and supporting records required for vessel mobilizations and offshore campaigns.
- Support the onboarding of new offshore personnel by verifying qualifications, certifications, medical fitness, and compliance requirements prior to their first offshore assignment.
- Assist with crewing reports, manpower forecasts, rotation planning, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and workforce readiness.
Work Location: In person