Barge Master

Roles and Responsibilities

• Acts as Head of the Marine Department Offshore.
• Deputises for Master/OIM in the event that the Master/OIM becomes incapacitated, serving as second in command of the vessel.
• Reviews and updates risk assessments and rig‑specific work methods with marine crews on a regular basis, ensuring that the appropriate risk assessment is reviewed prior to each task and updated after completion.
• Acts as SECT Owner and Verifier for personnel within the Marine Department.
• Supervises safety drills and emergency team training to ensure they are carried out in accordance with company expectations.
• Acts as Safety Officer on vessels lacking an appointed Safety Officer.
• Organises the workload of the deck crew to ensure safe, efficient and effective operations.
• Ensures that Dynamic Positioning and/or Mooring Operations are performed in accordance with company expectations and current marine best practices.
• Supervises stability calculations and ballast operations, maintaining watertight integrity.
• Supervises loading and unloading operations.
• Ensures compliance with COSHH regulations within the department.
• Ensures safe stowage of hazardous materials, including radioactive sources and explosives.
• Controls helicopter operations.
• Inspects and maintains all lifting appliances onboard and keeps the register of all lifting equipment up to date.
• Maintains marine certification and paperwork, keeping them current.
• Maintains marine planned maintenance, including all marine, fire‑fighting and lifesaving equipment.
• Ensures Marine and Control Room logs are maintained correctly.
• Maintains regular contact with and instructs the stand‑by vessel on operational requirements.
• Ensures a supply of cement to the cement unit surge tank during cementing operations while on duty.
• Complies with the Permit to Work System, ensuring compliance within the Marine department.
• Controls the Marine budget.
• Acts as Ship Security Officer under the auspices of the ISPS code.
• Ensures that Competence Assurance of the Marine Department is addressed in a timely manner and meets company expectations, addressing all outstanding and overdue standards and elements.
• Ensures Offshore Marine Appraisals are conducted in accordance with company procedures and completed on schedule.
• Performs any other duties as required by Master/OIM and/or Shore based Management.
• Allocates tasks to the Barge Engineer and provides adequate supervision to ensure all such tasks are carried out safely and efficiently.
• Is responsible and accountable for the safety of personnel working under their direction and is expected to conduct operations at all times in full compliance with company procedures (SMS).
• Identifies and addresses any violations of procedures concerning personnel under their direction.
• Highlights and brings to the attention of the HoD/Master‑OIM any continuous or repeated violations of policies or procedures.
• Complies with the Management of Change principle.
• Actively participates in accident/incident investigations when required.
• Reviews ORA’s to ensure they have appropriate and sufficient mitigations.
• Reviews Presight and Maximo data daily and promptly addresses overdue or failed target items that fall within the department.
• Performs any other duties as required by the Master/OIM.

Suitable Applicants Should Ideally Have

• Valid UK Class 1 (Master Mariner) Certificate of Competency or entitlement to obtain UK Class 1 (Master Mariner).
• Certificate of Equivalent Competency DP certificate.
• Previous, extensive experience on an anchored/DP drilling unit.
• Exposure to operations in areas such as Control Room Operator, Dynamic Positioning Officer, Senior Dynamic Positioning Officer on a drilling vessel, including extensive watch‑keeping.