Shorebase Logistics Foreman

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:

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  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.