Key responsibilities and accountabilities

• Comply with the Top Fenders Limited Operating Manuals and Procedures provided in work pack.
• Verifies that agreed STS operating procedures are followed and that the operation is conducted in compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements.
• Inspect both client and third party STS equipment before and after each STS operation to ensure suitability for the STS operation.
• Empowered to reject both Top Fenders Ltd and third party STS equipment if considered unsuitable and in poor condition.
• Oversee the correct placement of primary and secondary fenders.
• Sights and review vessels mooring equipment.
• Conducts a pre-operations discussion with the responsible persons of involved vessels, including lightering support craft and tugs as appropriate.
• Confirms that personnel involved in each part of the operation are properly briefed.
• Complete JPO and review the location specific risk assessment for each STS operation.
• Verifies joint agreement of the mooring and unmooring plans.
• Make sure that approach and mooring operations are not attempted until there is proper and effective communication between the vessels, and the pre-mooring checks have been completed.
• Discuss current and forecasted environmental conditions and the need for their continuous monitoring throughout the operation.
• For ‘at sea’ transfers, discuss passage plan and agree courses/speeds for manoeuvring and mooring operations.
• Supervise vessels approach and manoeuvring alongside.
• Ensure operational updates, including fatigue management is provided as regularly as communications allow.
• Ensure time sheet tally’s with operational updates.
• Confirms that all required reports are made to the appropriate authorities.
• Ensures that all required checklist are duly completed and submitted.
• Oversee the safe connection of transfer hoses/arms and associated emergency release systems (ERS).
• Verifies that any emergency shut down (ESD) system is properly connected and tested.
• Confirms that cargo transfer rates are being monitored together with associated vapour management procedures.
• Verifies that the integrity of the mooring arrangement is continuously monitored.
• Ensure that the contingency plans are activated in the event of an emergency.
• Verifies that cargo transfer lines are properly drained and, where required, purged.
• Ensures hoses are safely disconnected and secured with blank flanges/hose flange covers. The blank flanges / hose flange covers must be fully bolted at all times when not being used.
• Supervise the unmooring and the separation of vessels.
• Supervises the return of primary and secondary fenders and transfer equipment to safe storage.
• Duly report incidents and near miss in compliance with procedure (TFL-HSE-PRD-REF-03- Incident Reporting Process & TFL-HSE-PRD-REF-03- -Near Miss Reporting Process)

Current schedule requires our mooring masters to be off the shore of Lome, Togo in 4 weeks on / 4 weeks off rotation.