What are the responsibilities and job description for the ROV Tooling Workshop Supervisor position at TechnipFMC?
TechnipFMC is committed to driving real change in the energy industry. Our ambition is to build a sustainable future through relentless innovation and global collaboration – and we want you to be part of it. You’ll be joining a culture that values curiosity, expertise, and ideas as well as diversity, inclusion, and authenticity. Bring your unique energy to our team of more than 20,000 people worldwide, and discover a rewarding, fulfilling, and varied career that you can take in anywhere you want to go.
In this thrilling role, you’ll:
- Lead Regional Efforts: Collaborate with diverse teams across regions, tackling design challenges head-on and providing top-notch support to our North Houston Gremp campus service team.
- Innovate and Strategize: Identify and price cutting-edge equipment, whether sourced internally or externally, to ensure our projects are equipped with the best tools for success.
- Support Tender and Project Activities: Play a crucial role in tender processes, ensuring our project proposals are competitive and compelling.
- Ensure that project factory acceptance tests and system integrations tests for remote intervention tooling interfaces are complete and executed according to plan.
- Lead a dedicated team of ROV Tooling Technicians on the maintenance and repair of the TPFMC Tooling Pool
- Understanding of SAP software application for procurement of tooling and services.
- Ability to work unsupervised in remote locations i.e. West/East Africa, Trinidad, North America.
- Assists in readiness reviews to ensure tooling is available for projects.
- Ensure that the TPFMC tooling is keep up to industry standards.
- Recommend tooling upgrades to enhance TPFMC offshore operations.
- Minimize tooling costs by ensuring the correct ROV tooling from 3rd party rental companies is delivered and returned according to schedule.
- Advise on general installation and testing procedures to confirm ROV tooling suitability.
- Ensure that all ROV tools and equipment proposed and utilized for the project are engineered and fit for purpose.
- Maintain the ROV Tooling Tracker for billing purposes.
- Ensure all ROV tooling and hydraulic hoses are certified and maintain a certification log.
- Assist with VMAX team to optimize design and accessibility to our subsea hardware.
- Implement an RFID data base of all tooling and accessories for tracking and locating tooling during mob and demob of projects.
- Operation and maintenance of mock ROV for project system integration tests.
- High school diploma or GED required.
- Greater than 10 years of experience in offshore/subsea industry with particular emphasis in ROV operations and ROV tooling.
- Experience supervising a team of Tooling Technicians of all levels.
- Ability to obtain a TWIC, VISAs and medical certs such as BOSIET, UKOA and/or OGUK.
- Fluency in written and spoken English.
- Strong understanding of Subsea Umbilical’s, Risers, and Flowline (SURF) infrastructure with general awareness of SPS (Subsea Production Systems)
- Strong understanding of ROV capabilities, operations and experience in collaborating with vessel teams
- ROV piloting experience
- Must have good planning, organizational and time management skills.
- Takes responsibility for delivery.
- Familiar with installation software tools Autocad.
- Proactively engages with Quality and HSES initiatives.
- Shows respect for subordinates and coworkers.
- Collaborates transparently to address what truly matters and always delivers on promises.
- Proven ability to build trust with project and field support team members.
- Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. without restriction. For this position we are not sponsoring or taking over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
Work Environment:
- Workshop based position with occasional trips offsite/offshore.
- 75% workshop environment and 25% field (onshore / offshore) environment.
- Up to 25% Travel required to support business trips and/or project execution (mobilization, demobilization and offshore operations) domestically and internationally.
Physical Demands:
- Frequent sitting and operating a computer when in the office.
- Frequent walking, standing, climbing stairs / ladders while onboard the vessel, as well as exposure to sea conditions (vessel movement, summer heat, etc.)
Being a global leader in the energy industry requires an inclusive and diverse environment. TechnipFMC promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion by ensuring equal opportunities to all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, gender expressions, disabilities, or all other pluralities. We celebrate who you are and what you bring. Every voice matters and we encourage you to add to our culture.
TechnipFMC respects the rights and dignity of those it works with and promotes adherence to internationally recognized human rights principles for those in its value chain.
Nearest Major Market: Houston
