About this role
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Shorebase Foreman duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Direct daily shorebase operations by establishing work priorities, coordinating personnel and resources, and ensuring readiness to support vessel, trucking, and offshore activities.
• Supervise and support shorebase personnel responsible for vessel movements, cargo handling, material tracking, and daily operational activities.
• Communicate with offshore operations, shorebase personnel, logistics, and vendors to confirm transportation requirements, cargo priorities, vessel readiness, and schedule changes.
• Anticipate, coordinate, and respond to changing operational priorities, weather-related disruptions, vessel availability issues, cargo constraints, and other delays.
• Oversee vessel arrivals, departures, berth assignments, loadouts, backloads, and turnaround activities through assigned personnel, ensuring safe and timely execution.
• Oversee vessel on/off-charter checks and documentation; confirm readiness with logistics and authorize vessel release in accordance with established requirements.
• Review vessel activity and utilization to identify idle time, inefficiency, unnecessary trips, and opportunities to consolidate cargo or improve vessel support.
• Ensure compliance with cargo cutoff times, material QA/QC requirements, and accurate preparation of manifests, shipping documentation, labeling, and required shipment notifications.
• Maintain accountability for company materials, rental equipment, and returned cargo, including proper storage, discrepancy resolution, and timely processing or vendor return.
• Ensure shorebase personnel consistently and accurately use designated logistics management systems to manage cargo movements, material accountability, and required operational records.
• Verify vessel logs, enter spend allocations, review invoices and discrepancies, and coordinate corrections or approvals with logistics as required.
• Oversee assigned shorebase and third-party contractors, monitor service quality and cost-effective execution, and provide vendor performance feedback and recommendations.
• Promote Incident Free Operations by ensuring compliance with Talos HSE policies, established cargo-handling procedures, and applicable shorebase and environmental requirements; promptly communicate incidents and operational safety concerns.
• Ensure required inspections, equipment certification checks, hazardous and nonhazardous shipment documentation, and applicable NORM and waste-handling procedures are completed by responsible personnel.
• Identify recurring operational, reporting, or system issues; coordinate corrective actions with shorebase personnel, logistics, operations, HSE, and vendors to improve long-term performance.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
• 7–10 years of relevant experience in shorebase logistics supporting offshore operations.
• High School Diploma or equivalent.
QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:
• Relevant experience in shorebase operations, offshore logistics, marine logistics, materials management, or a similar industrial environment; Gulf of America offshore oil and gas experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading personnel and coordinating multiple operational activities in a fast-paced logistics environment.
• Working knowledge of vessel support operations, cargo receiving and shipping, material staging, vessel loadouts/backloads, trucking, and offshore material movements.
• Working knowledge of cargo handling, lifting and rigging practices, hazardous and nonhazardous material requirements, and applicable shorebase HSE procedures.
• Strong planning and organizational skills with the ability to prioritize personnel, equipment, cargo, and transportation requirements while responding to changing operational needs.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to establish expectations, delegate responsibilities, coach personnel, address performance issues, and promote accountability.
• Experience overseeing contractors and service providers, including monitoring safety, service quality, operational performance, and cost-effective execution.
• Proficiency with logistics management systems and Microsoft Office applications; experience with Kabal or similar marine/cargo logistics platforms preferred.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to coordinate across offshore Operations, Logistics, HSE, vendors, contractors, and shorebase personnel.
CERTIFICATES & LICENSES:
• In GOA Operations a minimum of 30 CFR 250 (T-2) certification is required.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Offshore employees must be able to consistently meet the following physical requirements for the duration of a shift (14 consecutive - 12 hour days).
• STANDING – Ability to remain feet in an upright position at a workstation on hard/uneven surfaces (concrete/grating/steel) without moving about.
• WALKING – Ability to move about on foot on hard/uneven surfaces (concrete/grating/steel).
• LIFTING – Ability to raise or lower 50 lbs., from floor to waist, from one level to another.
• SWING ROPE – Must be able to transfer from boats to landing areas of the platforms during moderate to heavy seas.
• STAIRS – Ability to move up and down stairs while carrying equipment.
• BENDING/REACHING – Ability to bend the spine downward and forward at the waist. Ability to extend the hands and arms in any direction.
• HANDLING – Ability to hold, grasp and turn both hands with significant weight or resistance.
• PULLING/PUSHING – Ability to move equipment from one workstation to another.
• KNEELING – Ability to bend the legs at the knees to come to a rest.
• FINGER WORK – Ability to pick and pinch, working primarily with the fingers.
• TOLERANCE – Ability to tolerate extreme temperatures, adverse weather conditions, exposure to the elements, exposure to elevated noise/vibration and work in close quarters while wearing protective equipment and clothing.
• VISION – Must have depth perception to safely sense distance and sufficient peripheral vision to see objects and detect motion at wide angles.
• HEARING – Must understand detailed communication at normal levels and detect changes in sound levels.
• RESPIRATORY – Must be able to work in a variety of respiratory protection equipment.
• WORKING AT HEIGHTS – Must be able to climb ladders and scaffolds to perform work at elevated locations.