• Job Description

  Req#: 492351

  Position Description:

  The Dive Operations Manager is responsible for planning and executing Mainstream Commercial Divers, Inc.’s projects safely and efficiently, scheduling and overseeing dive personnel, preparing bids, and building and maintaining successful client relationships.

  Travel:

  • Will be required to travel to various project sites for job walks and site assessments. Travel will depend on specific project needs and corporate meeting requirements.

  Duties and Responsibilities include:

  • Plan, schedule, and manage all dive projects.
  • Coordinate with Logistics and Shop Supervisor for dispatch of diving personnel and dive gear as needed for projects.
  • Execute projects in a manner that satisfies client needs and legal requirements, including but not limited to ADCI regulations and state and federal laws on commercial diving.
  • Coordinate dive equipment including associated maintenance and certification with the Shop Supervisor.
  • Ensure timely and accurate submission of EWOWS, associated job paperwork, reports, and video files from the field crew.
  • Coordinate with Dive Operations Managers in other regions as needed for personnel needs.
  • Supervise the dive staff, assign work activities, set goals, monitor performance, and evaluate results.
  • Visit project sites regularly to ensure quality control and safe diving practices.
  • Review diver/tender job applicants and assist with selecting personnel for hire.
  • Maintain adequate staffing levels to ensure the availability of qualified personnel required to execute the workload.
  • Attend pre-bid meetings, prepare responsible bids, proposal requests, and participate in job walks.
  • Assist service lines and other regions with proposals and job estimates as needed.
  • Write reports, including dive operations plans, correspondence, and client videos.
  • Identify and develop opportunities to market services to both new and existing customers.
  • Develop contacts with existing customers and maintain successful business relationships.
  • Before the mobilization of crews, communicate with all necessary internal stakeholders to ensure groups are kept adequately informed.
  • Ensure safe diving operations and participate in the Safety Committee.
  • Answer after-hours response calls and dispatch on-call dive teams.
  • Assists with supervision of diving projects, as needed (on-call rotation) Oversees in-house training program.
  • Other duties as assigned.
    
    

  Qualifications:

  Education/Experience

  • 10+ years' experience in a commercial diving and or marine construction role is required.
  • 5+ years as an ADCI Dive Supervisor preferred.
  • Working knowledge of the ACDI Consensus standard is required.
  • Previous experience in logistics preferred.
  • Successful completion of a pre-employment background and substance screening process including, but not limited to, employment verifications, criminal search, and Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) search as well as continued verifications throughout employment to ensure that all records meet company policy standards.

  Knowledge/Skills

  • Excellent organizational and time management skills.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Ability to work cooperatively with internal stakeholders and external clients.
  • Intermediate Microsoft Suite skills (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
  • Excellent customer service skills.
  • Must demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in a team environment.
  • Must be able to travel to project sites as needed, including the ability to travel out of town for short periods.
  • Must be able to write reports, business correspondence, presentations, and proposals.
  • Existing knowledge of the region with developed relationships in the maritime industry.
  • Current working knowledge of standard dive practices and recognized trade association regulations (ADCI).
  • Current knowledge of Federal/State regulations on construction and commercial diving.
  • Familiarization with blueprint reading and ship drawings.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, fluid environment.
  • Understanding of project management, cost estimating, cost control, operations, and workforce forecasting.

  Physical / Mental Requirements

  • Perform work in office and field settings.
  • Be available after hours and on weekends as needed.
  • Ability to pass a pre-employment physical.
  • Must be able to pass a pre-employment drug test and background screen.
  • Valid driver’s license, valid auto insurance, clean driving record.
  • Perform work in an office setting.
  • Perform work in the field, including work on boats and floating barges.

  EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

  MCDI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the objective of Mainstream Commercial Divers, Inc. to obtain qualified employees consistent with position requirements: to seek, employ, promote, and treat all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion/creed, handicap/disability, marital status, genetic information/history, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic or condition protected by law.

  MCDI will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with MCDI’s legal duty to furnish information. (41 C.F.R. 60-1.35(c))

  If you are a candidate with a disability in need of an accommodation in the application process, please HR.

  Apply online at MainstreamDivers.com/Employment

  Job Location: United States

  Position Type: Full-Time/Regular

• About the company

  Mainstream Commercial Divers, Inc. (formerly MER Commercial Diving Division) is a full-service commercial diving company, providing decades of quality service. We provide construction and maintenance projects for a variety of industries, vessel salvage and casualty response, vessel inspections, freshwater mussel surveys, diver-operated dredging and much more. In addition, our talented dive teams are routinely contracted to perform projects at nuclear, hydroelectric, and coal-fired facilities nationwide.

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