Job Location: Offshore Newfoundland, onboard the DSV, Deep Explorer
Contract Length: August 1, 2025 - October 15, 2025
Business Address: TechnipFMC Canada Ltd., St. John's, NL
How to Apply: All applications must be received through the provided e-mail address: [email protected]
Language of Work: English
Number of Positions: 14
Supplemental pay types: Bonus pay
Job Purpose: The Diver is required to work on deck as Stand By and underwater utilising a variety of equipment under instruction from the Diving Supervisor. May undertake supervised panel time to gain the appropriate IMCA requirements towards Dive Supervisor (Air/Gas) qualification.
Reporting lines and interactions:
Hierarchically reports to: Offshore People Manager
Operationally reports to: Dive Supervisor Air or Gas and Life Support Supervisor during saturation chamber occupancy
Directly supervises: Trainee Divers (when mentoring)
Key interactions (internally, externally): Dive Supervisors, LSS, LST, Dive Technicians, Deck Crew, Training and Competence Department
Job Scope (budget, management, specific criteria):
Management
- Liaising with the Life Support Supervisor, Dive Supervisor and Dive Technicians as to the readiness of the equipment
- Communicate feedback and interpret Dive Supervisors instructions whilst performing diving duties.
- Ensure an effective shift handover including any safe work procedure and explanation of current working conditions.
- Ensuring all operational or system changes are managed in accordance with company MOC process.
- Actively participating in feedback and developing emergency training/drills
- Report any illness or other medical condition that may prevent safe diving.
Safety
- Anticipation of unsafe working conditions on deck and sub-sea operations
- Operations are carried out in accordance with company requirements ensuring proper protocol is followed with regards JRA and PTW
- Dive system emergency training and familiarisation is carried out in accordance with company guidelines.
- Practical working knowledge and use of personal survival equipment in bell and hyperbaric lifeboat
- Dive system internal firefighting equipment operational awareness.
- Ensure any additional work or panel hours are planned appropriately and in no way infringe on their main tasks when working as stand by diver.
Operations
- Ensure all equipment checks and operations are carried out by competent personnel.
- Familiarised with all aspects of the system and equipment including diving bells, chambers, personal dive equipment and deck layout.
- Good understanding, knowledge and management of diver's umbilical lengths to suit job requirements.
- Ensure that the scope of the task is understood and is within the range of present competence.
- Familiarised ad competent to operate any tools required for the work scope and any ambiguities are clarified prior to undertaking the dive.
- Practical appreciation and working knowledge of gas supplies and reclaim systems.
- Understanding of decompression and excursion dive tables
Technical / Systems
- Logging of any incidents involving equipment malfunction or failure
- Equipment failures/ issues are captured within the system defects log and reported accordingly.
- Ensure all documentation in use is relevant and traceable within the BMS/FMS or exerts from vendor operational manuals.
People
- Ongoing personnel mentoring and timely completion of appraisals and competency portfolios
- Continued logging of all relevant details within their personnel logbook
- Familiar with the Company's Key Human Resources Policies and Procedures
Qualifications (professional, technical, academic):
Essential:
Industry Certification (IMCA)
- HSE Part 2 certificate or recognised equivalent for bell diving operations
- Professional gas diver as per ODIA Diver Pay Grading Matrix
- OPITO Rigger Initial Training or OPITO/TechnipFMC competence assessment
- Stand by Diver attaining panel hours - IMCA Closed Bell Supervisor certificate
Company Required Certification
- Current DMT certificate (Saturation)
- Valid Offshore Survival Certificate
- Valid Diving Medical Certificate
- JFD 1 day COBRA training certificate
- Valid DCBC Certification
Typical background and experience required:
Essential:
Practical Knowledge
- Industry and local legislation/ guidance ensuring compliance.
- TechnipFMC Group Values and Dive Management Manuals demonstrable in daily activities
- Company BMS/FMS, SMS and vessels ISSOW
- Good working knowledge of diving and rigging techniques in all aspects of sub-sea activities.
- Knowledge and practical ability to carry out all wet Bellman and/or Standby Diver duties effectively.
- Experience undertaking Saturation Diving Operations from DP3 Dive Support Vessel.
Additional information:
Personal Qualities
- Effective communicator, reporting all relevant information to and from management clearly and concisely; listening to others and prepared to receive feedback.
- Good time and team management, identifying priorities and remaining focused on outcomes.
- Proactive and shows initiative towards improvements in the work site and safety awareness within the team.
- Sets realistic goals which are achievable and measurable, motivating others and acknowledging achievement.
- Accepts responsibility for own behavior and actions.
- Self-motivated, can work unsupervised and has good organizational skills.
Team Member Behavioral Qualities
- Showing initiative and 'self-starting'
- Constructive and responsive to supervisor's / manager's requests
- Learning and developing skills and knowledge
- Listening to others and prepared to receive feedback.
- Cooperating with others and adapting to change
- Mutual support and coaching of colleagues
- Accepting responsibility for own behaviour / actions
- Appropriate self-confidence / awareness of limitations
- Raising concerns assertively but calmly
- Demonstrating respect for others
- Good situational and spatial awareness