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Trades that match our ambition
From trainees on board to the executive board, Bourbon Offshore offers a vast array of jobs to graduates from the Merchant Navy colleges. With technical and operational, sales and marketing jobs, BOURBON opens up innumerable career opportunities for qualified sailors, together with positions of responsibility at its bases on land and in its Quality, Health, Safety and Environment departments.
All these posts are based on shared values, a professional attitude, the enriching experience of pooling the talents of all kinds of different people and accountability. They are also a measure of personal job satisfaction, autonomy and progress.
Bourbon Offshore currently employs 4,000 collaborators, sailors and officers, aboard its vessels specialising in services to offshore oilfields. Bearing in mind the expansion of the fleet and the company’s international growth, this figure is bound to increase very quickly.
Jobs at Bourbon Offshore:
At Sea
- Master
- Chief Engineer
- Chief Officer
- Second Engineer
- Dynamic Positioning Operator
- Helicopter Landing Officer
- Boatswain
- Engineer
- Deck Assistant
- Seaman
- Deck Foreman
- Offshore crane operator
- Rigger
On Land
- QHSE Manager, Head Office
- Base Safety and Environment Officer
- Shipping Engineer
- New building engineer
- Base Manager
- Base Engineer
- Operations and contracts manager
Trades specific to the Subsea Services Activity
- On-board operations officer
- Deck officer on-board
- Specialized crane operators
- Seamen / specialized slingers
- Project manager established locally
- Operations Manager of the IMR vessel fleet
- Engineers
- Project managers
- ROV Supervisor
- ROV pilot
Trades specific to the Salvage Activity
The trades specifically related to assistance and salvage operations involve dedicated response units made up of the following personnel:
- Salvage Master.
- Salvage Officer.
- Salvage Engineer.
- A liaison and control team on board the salved vessel.
These response units are essential for the smooth running and the success of each such operation.
Zoom on :
The ROV Supervisor
He is responsible for the ROV mission and for abiding by safety and operational standards. His main job is to make sure that the crew responsible for the ROV is in perfect control of all the parameters of the operation. He also sees to it that the contractual terms are complied with, in accordance with the client and BOURBON’s operating and safety standards. Lastly, he guarantees the safety of the ROV crew and that both ROVs and their equipment are operational.
The ROV pilot
The ROV is operated by remote control. The pilot therefore operates in safety at the command post on the bridge of the vessel. He sees to the steering of the ROV and the execution of the work assigned through remote orders from the command post. The ROV pilots are extremely qualified. They are experts in electronics, electricity and electrical engineering, and they also have in-depth knowledge of mechanical hydraulics. Lastly, they have enough knowledge to provide complete maintenance of the ROVs and their equipment during operation.