Senior Vessel Planner
Posted Today by Belcan
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The Offshore Heavy Lift Vessel Coordinator role is a 12-month contract position based in the United Kingdom, focusing on coordinating offshore and onshore operations for vessel staffing and logistics. The coordinator will ensure alignment of personnel, training, travel, and documentation with operational demands to enhance safety and efficiency in vessel operations. This position is classified as outside IR35, indicating a limited contract arrangement. The role requires experience in offshore operations and logistics management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate vessel staffing plans in line with campaign schedules, crew rotations, and operational demand.
- Support the allocation and tracking of offshore personnel to ensure vessels are staffed with the required number of competent resources.
- Coordinate mobilisation and demobilisation activities for assigned vessels, including readiness of personnel, travel, documentation, and related logistics.
- Track vessel demand against available resources and highlight gaps, risks, clashes, and late changes to the relevant manager.
- Maintain accurate vessel coordination data, trackers, and planning records to support reporting and operational decision-making.
- Liaise with Vessel Site Managers, Resource Management, Project Management, EHS, Training, Procurement, Travel, and other support teams to ensure campaign alignment.
Key Skills:
- Experience in offshore operations, vessel coordination, logistics, workforce planning, or a similar operational support role.
- Good understanding of offshore mobilisation, crew coordination, and personnel readiness requirements.
- Experience maintaining planning trackers, reports, and operational records with a high level of accuracy.
- Experience working across functional interfaces to support operational delivery.
- Experience in offshore wind, marine, heavy lift, construction, or related field service operations is preferred.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Offshore Heavy Lift Vessel Coordinator
Location: United Kingdom - Remote
Contract: 12 months - Outside IR35 (Limited contract)
Our Client is an Energy technology company are seeking to Offshore Heavy Lift Vessel Coordinator . The role is for a contract position of 12 months Outside IR35. Our client has 150-year legacy of innovation and will focus on energy transformation, new technologies, decarbonization and Innovative leading-edge technology.
Role: As a Vessel Coordinator you will act as a key coordination point between offshore teams and onshore support functions. It ensures people, training, travel, documentation, tooling readiness, and planning data are aligned to operational demand. The Vessel Coordinator helps reduce disruption, improves readiness, and supports safe delivery across vessel operations.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate vessel staffing plans in line with campaign schedules, crew rotations, and operational demand.
- Support the allocation and tracking of offshore personnel to ensure vessels are staffed with the required number of competent resources.
- Coordinate mobilisation and demobilisation activities for assigned vessels, including readiness of personnel, travel, documentation, and related logistics.
- Track vessel demand against available resources and highlight gaps, risks, clashes, and late changes to the relevant manager.
- Maintain accurate vessel coordination data, trackers, and planning records to support reporting and operational decision-making.
- Liaise with Vessel Site Managers, Resource Management, Project Management, EHS, Training, Procurement, Travel, and other support teams to ensure campaign alignment.
Experience
- Experience in offshore operations, vessel coordination, logistics, workforce planning, or a similar operational support role.
- Good understanding of offshore mobilisation, crew coordination, and personnel readiness requirements.
- Experience maintaining planning trackers, reports, and operational records with a high level of accuracy.
- Experience working across functional interfaces to support operational delivery.
- Experience in offshore wind, marine, heavy lift, construction, or related field service operations is preferred.
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