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: 2
Job Purpose: Operationally the Life Support Technician is there to support the Senior / Life Support Supervisor and assist with the maintenance of depth, all aspects of hygiene / chamber environment and gas management whilst there are divers in saturation.
Reporting lines and interactions:
Hierarchically reports to: Offshore People Manager
Operationally reports to: Senior / Life Support Supervisor
Directly supervises: Assistant Life Support Technician and Divers within the chamber complex
Key interactions (internally, externally):
Dive Supervisors, Dive Technicians, OMT, Deck Crew, Galley Staff and Bridge Crew, Training and Competence Department, Diving Regional Manager
Job Scope (budget, management, specific criteria):
Management
- Assisting with all relevant aspects of the dive system including, Sat control panels, Hyperbaric Lifeboat launch evacuation, dive system operational and emergency procedures
- Liaising with the Life Support Supervisor, Dive Supervisor and Dive Technicians as to the readiness of the equipment and personnel under his direct authority
- Ensuring all shift handovers are carried out clearly and concisely, ensuring relevant information is logged within the handover log
- Ensuring a detailed daily log is kept of all diver movements, dive activities, system breakdowns
- Ensuring all operational or system changes are managed in accordance with company MOC process
- Actively participating in feedback and review of Dive Manuals, updating Dive Systems Operations/ Emergency Manual, Dive System Design Documentation and developing emergency training/drills
Safety
- Chamber environmental control and gas analysis are maintained within company guidelines
- Dive system emergency training and familiarisation is carried out in accordance with company guidelines
- Dive system firefighting equipment operational awareness and all relevant personnel are fully familiarised
- All pressure related injuries/ incidents are dealt with in accordance of the company manuals, with any additional local legislative requirements reported appropriately
- All equipment entering the chamber complex has been checked for compatibility and fit for purpose
- Logging and supervision of administering medicines as advised by a qualified doctor
Operations
- Maintaining system storage and any changes affecting the integrity of the dive system
- Diver briefings are carried out in accordance with company guidelines and logged appropriately
- Planning and ongoing management of readiness of project equipment
- Ensure all system checks and operations are carried out by competent personnel
- All saturation procedures are carried out in accordance with the company manuals
- Assist in planning and ongoing management of quantities of gases and consumables to meet operational and minimum levels
- Ensure company hygiene procedures for chamber internal and external are followed and logged appropriately
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 FMS/BMS or exerts from vendor operational manuals
People
- Ongoing personnel mentoring, appraisals, feedback and assistance with competency portfolios
- Continued logging of all relevant details within their personnel lob book
- Familiar with the Company's Key Human Resources Policies and Procedures
Qualifications (professional, technical, academic):
Essential:
Industry Certification (IMCA)
- IMCA recognised Assistant LST training course, IMCA LST Certificate
- Meets the minimum IMCA requirements for experience and competency
Company Required Certification
- Completed a recognized Advanced First Aid / DMT course
- Valid Offshore Survival Certificate
- Valid Offshore Medical Certificate
- Completed Operators HMCS Skills Verification training
- Valid DCBC Certification
Typical background and experience required:
Essential:
Practical Knowledge
- Industry and local legislation / guidance ensuring compliance
- TechnipFMC Group Values and Diving Safety Management System (DSMS) demonstrable in daily activities
- Documented experience working with PLC based Hyperbaric Monitoring & Control System (HMCS) within the past 12 months
- Fully familiar with the COBRA charging procedures
- Company FMS/BMS, SMS and vessels ISSOW
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