Superintendent role

Ray,

To be fair, I’d say there’s a 50-50 % balance of Supt. who are worthy of the title.

I guess my experience was about normal then !

looks like I posted this in the wrong section aswell……..nevermind.

piedpiper

I guess not as it was a Rookie type question 😉 ….. or failing that it could have been added to the jokes section.

I think though if the guys on deck at rookie level do not know what the job of each level within the team is then the training within that firm is lacking.

Fair comment.

Of course there are a growing number of people who claim the title of superintendant who should in reality only be a tech but then that is just my opinion.

You’re kidding! Would you let half the Stupidnintendos you’ve met actually work on a sub? And expect it to work again? Even Tech would be too high a grade 😀

Rov Valley Commando,

Well said! With real companies you don’t see Supt’s on drill support jobs, unless that is either it is to up man and there is nobody else available and his days req making up, trouble shoot if there has been problems, or more than likely shoved out of harms way, Oceaneering incidently has 2 Supt grades…Mind you most of their supts are on 3 man Bed support jobs.
After being involved with ROV’s since 1981, I have to be honest I am quite happy as a shift supv, as the crap a construction vessel supt has to put up with is unbelievable, 18hr days the norm and the whinging from our own guys, greetin’ from the reps, HSE bollox etc.
Carry on guys, your welcome to the extra few pounds a day…

Could not agree more with Lostboy. The problem was highlighted earlier when you have superintendants (or those people who claim to be) basically being glorified supervisors.

What concerned me is that this thread was started by someone working offshore who was unsure of the roles and responsibilities of the top person involved with the ROV on a day to day basis.

Surely everyone should be given that kind of information or at least have it available so that everyone knows where the lie on the ROV ladder.

And more importantly you then know who to blame when it all goes wrong. Although it is not about blame its about accountability these days!!!!!

Ray, I presume your comments are based on people you have worked with at Fugro seen as that is where you have spent most of your ROV career? Unitil you work for one of the major players (and Fugro is not one of them) where you have 3 or 4 and even 5 in some cases ROV systems on a large construction vessel/barge you shouldn’t tar all superintedents with the same brush (and no i’m not one)

I was replying back to Luckyjim37, about the Superintendents that he had worked with, knowing where he has been working over the last few years. I did not say all Superintendents are like that. I certainly agree that the ones in the likes of Technip who run large jobs are what I would class a proper Superintendent.

More and more nowadays, unfortunately, you get people who are given that position because they have been with the company a long time, not be cause they can necessarily do the proper role of a Superintendent (nor indeed do some companys – such as the one you mentioned – normally carry out jobs that require a Superintendent role in the first place).

And when you have companys who have 2,3 or even 5 grades of Superintendent, its obvious they are doing this just to stick some kind of pay grading scale in, not because they need Superintendents to superintend jobs.

And Jim, from your description of Superintendents, it would make more sense financially for a company to supply an offshore secretary in a lot of cases instead of a Superintendent 😀