DIRECTOR OF SEMISUBMERSIBLE AND OFFSHORE PLATFORMS

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About the Company

Direct the strategy, operation, maintenance, reactivation, mobilization, and economic performance of semi-submersible platforms, ensuring personnel safety, asset integrity and reliability, contractual and regulatory compliance, as well as the profitability of offshore projects.

About the Position

Will be responsible for converting the General Management's objectives into executable operational plans, aligning technical, operational, financial, commercial, and administrative areas to ensure safe, efficient, and sustainable offshore operations.

Responsibilities

Define and execute the operational strategy of semi-submersible platforms aligned with the business plan.
Direct the operational, technical, financial, and contractual performance of the assets.
Ensure the availability, reliability, integrity, maintenance, reactivation, modernization, and life extension of the units.
Lead SPS, UWILD, upgrades, major inspections, mobilizations, and shipyard campaigns.
Evaluate investments, acquisitions, leases, sales, reactivations, and strategic alliances related to offshore assets.
Establish technical governance for critical drilling, subsea, marine, electrical, structural, and safety systems.
Ensure decisions on critical equipment and systems are evaluated by specialists under formal risk management processes.
Ensure compliance with HSE standards, quality, asset integrity, risk management, and operational continuity.
Lead executive response to emergencies, major incidents, and events affecting business continuity.
Manage OPEX and CAPEX budgets, overseeing costs, utilization, contractual profitability, EBITDA, and budget deviations.
Participate in tenders, technical and economic proposals, contractual negotiations, and business opportunity development.
Oversee contractual compliance, claims management, economic recoveries, and penalty mitigation.
Maintain strategic relationships with clients, authorities, insurers, classification societies, shipyards, OEMs, and key suppliers.
Coordinate Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Projects, Marine, HSE, Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Human Resources, Commercial, and Legal areas.
Design the organizational structure, define responsibilities, and develop key talent through succession and leadership plans.
Promote a culture of safety, operational discipline, responsibility, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Present operational, financial, contractual, and risk results to General Management, transforming complex technical issues into executive recommendations with economic, operational, contractual, and reputational impact.

Qualifications

Education: Petroleum, Mechanical, Naval, Marine, Electromechanical, Industrial Engineering, or related field.
Desirable: Master's degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, Offshore Engineering, Finance, Project Management, or equivalent.
Age and gender: Indifferent.
Languages: Advanced English indispensable for negotiation, document review, conducting meetings, and presenting executive results. Spanish desirable for interaction with clients, authorities, and local teams.

Required Skills

Executive leadership and strategic thinking.
Comprehensive business vision and results orientation.
Decision-making under pressure and uncertainty.
Financial acumen and technical-commercial negotiation.
Risk, crisis, and organizational change management.
Effective communication with Senior Management and the Board of Directors.
Cross-functional influence and leadership of multidisciplinary teams.
Talent development, succession, and leader formation.
Operational discipline, integrity, ethics, and confidentiality.
Ability to technically support decisions and maintain absolute commitment to safety.

Preferred Skills

Executive with solid technical and business experience to direct semi-submersible platforms, balancing safety, profitability, contractual compliance, and organizational development.
Ability to manage high-value assets and high-risk operations, maintaining strategic control without micromanagement.
Skill in building teams, establishing discipline, making complex decisions, and developing sustainable solutions.
Credibility with technical staff, clients, authorities, and senior management, with an openness to reconsider decisions based on new information.
Ability to represent the company before national and international clients, authorities, insurers, partners, shipyards, and strategic suppliers.
Preference will be given to candidates with experience in the comprehensive management of fleets, units, or offshore businesses, rather than exclusively consultative or technical specialty roles.

Salary Range and Compensation Package

Benefits above the legal minimums

Required skills

sales electrical systems english mechanical engineering engineering maintenance negotiation quality standards operations confidentiality reliability benefits strategy business development availability continuous improvement financial reporting collaboration risk management crisis management effective communication leadership development risk assessment ethics team building regulatory compliance emergency response integrity safety systems modernization proposals industrial engineering mobilization strategic thinking operational reporting asset management spanish succession planning talent development tenders client relations safety culture fleet management client representation procurement coordination sps technical areas decision making electromechanical engineering financial acumen technical governance risk reporting leases claims management sustainable solutions business plan business continuity results orientation ebitda marine engineering hse standards project profitability oems acquisitions supply chain coordination executive presentations organizational change management upgrades executive leadership shipyards asset performance naval architecture classification societies master's in business administration compensation package strategic alliances contractual negotiations supplier relations organizational structure utilization reactivation asset integrity commercial coordination structural systems commercial areas cross-functional influence operational plans marine systems maintenance coordination operational areas business vision operations coordination petroleum engineering operational discipline critical systems credibility authority relations contractual compliance operational continuity safety commitment budget deviations economic performance financial areas asset reliability offshore platforms personnel safety administrative areas legal coordination life extension drilling systems investment evaluation opex budget master's in finance engineering coordination major incident response semi-submersible platforms sustainable offshore operations uwild major inspections shipyard campaigns subsea systems asset integrity management capex budget cost supervision contractual profitability economic recoveries penalty mitigation insurance relations projects coordination marine coordination hse coordination finance coordination human resources coordination responsibility definition contractual reporting master's in operations management master's in offshore engineering master's in project management senior management communication board of directors communication multidisciplinary team leadership leader formation technical decision support strategic control discipline establishment complex decision making authority representation partner representation shipyard representation supplier representation offshore business management consultative roles technical specialty roles

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