Understanding the submarine cable landscape has never been as important as it is now. At OceanIQ®, we can now provide you with detailed fault rate heat maps that outline the number of faults that can be expected on each kilometre of a cable, within a specific area, per year.
Utilising our cable database, analyse 6,000 historical global cable faults to easily identify areas of high fault rates, overall minimising system downtime.
When planning new cable systems, dealing with cable crossings can be complex and if preparation is done incorrectly, can result in huge repair costs for existing cables in the surrounding infrastructure. Submarine cable maps help identify the existing cables on the seabed, which alongside many other factors. For example, the physical attributes of the area, selection of suitable landing points, dredging areas and marine protected areas, all take part in influencing the best possible route to take when laying a cable.
Having accurate cable data is paramount to carrying out a successful subsea operation. Take a listen to our subsea experts, Brian Perratt, Global Support Services Manager and Stuart Wilson, Route Engineering Survey Manager, who took a look into the challenges cable crossings bring to a cable system. As well as, other factors to consider when planning for a complex subsea project.
Below we show a detailed view of the North Sea and its cable crossings, using a submarine cable map.
At OceanIQ®, we recently carried out a study for a cable system across the North Sea, which crossed 16 pipelines, 6 power cables, 11 in service telecom cables and 10 out of service cables.
We’re having to share the seabed like never before. The increasing growth of offshore renewables alongside the insatiable demand for global connectivity is having an impact on the existing and new cable infrastructure. GeoCable® GIS Data provides an understanding of where existing cables are on the ocean floor against any geographical and human risks.
Following the increase in seabed usage from industries such as telecoms, renewable energy, oil & gas and resource mining, our seabed congestion data prevents risks to both the security of the cable and to the process of acquiring permits.
Comprehensive cable data is critical to feed into detailed route development, effective crossing strategies and successful cable protection approaches for future systems. Overall, saving your project time and extra costs.
When planning new cable systems, dealing with cable crossings can be complex and if preparation is done incorrectly, can result in huge repair costs for existing cables in the surrounding infrastructure. Submarine cable maps help identify the existing cables on the seabed, which alongside many other factors. For example, the physical attributes of the area, selection of suitable landing points, dredging areas and marine protected areas, all take part in influencing the best possible route to take when laying a cable.
Having accurate cable data is paramount to carrying out a successful subsea operation. Take a listen to our subsea experts, Brian Perratt, Global Support Services Manager and Stuart Wilson, Route Engineering Survey Manager, who took a look into the challenges cable crossings bring to a cable system. As well as, other factors to consider when planning for a complex subsea project.
Below we show a detailed view of the North Sea and its cable crossings, using a submarine cable map.
At OceanIQ®, we recently carried out a study for a cable system across the North Sea, which crossed 16 pipelines, 6 power cables, 11 in service telecom cables and 10 out of service cables.
We’re having to share the seabed like never before. The increasing growth of offshore renewables alongside the insatiable demand for global connectivity is having an impact on the existing and new cable infrastructure. GeoCable® GIS Data provides an understanding of where existing cables are on the ocean floor against any geographical and human risks.
Following the increase in seabed usage from industries such as telecoms, renewable energy, oil & gas and resource mining, our seabed congestion data prevents risks to both the security of the cable and to the process of acquiring permits.
Comprehensive cable data is critical to feed into detailed route development, effective crossing strategies and successful cable protection approaches for future systems. Overall, saving your project time and extra costs.
Earlier this month, we held our Annual Awards Evening, recognising employees and teams both on and offshore right across Global Marine Group.
Designed to reward and recognise outstanding achievements over the last 12 months, the categories reflect the businesses underpinning values. Over 150 nominations were made by peers throughout the company.
Congratulations to this year’s awards winners:
Offshore Individual: Samantha Mason
Second Officer, Samantha, was chosen as the winner for this category for her outstanding response to Covid-19.
Onshore Individual: Rebecca Hughes
Fleet Resourcing Manager, Rebecca was selected as a winner for this category for her ability to hit the ground running and make an immediate difference within the company.
Offshore Team: C.S. Sovereign
The C.S. Sovereign crew were nominated for their fortitude and resilience in the face of extremely challenging conditions. A big congratulations to the whole team.
Onshore Team: Roz Johnson and the Accounts Payable Team
This team has been recognised multiple times for their dedication and hard work, and for going to extra mile to ensure the business remained operational.
Excellence & Capability: Carla Bennet
Subsea Operations Administrator, Carla was selected as the winner of our Excellence and Capability Award due to her dedication and commitment to the company, her ability to go above and beyond their job role and for always being helpful.
Innovation: Brian Perratt
Global Support Services Manager, Brian has been recognised by his peers for approaching product development with flare and passion, and creating a positive impact on the business.
Customer Focus: Plamen Katsanski
The winner of our Customer Focus Award, IT Analyst Plamen, is highly regarded by his peers and always has the customers’ requirements in mind. Plamen has qualities, which have been described as ‘a great ambassador and attribute to their team and the wider business’.
Commercial Focus: Liam Cairney
The winner of the Commercial Focus Award was Proposals Engineer, Liam, who has been described as having exceptional dedication, commitment, and work ethic and always going above and beyond in his role.
Corporate Citizen: Andy Newman
Engineering Manager, Andy won this award due to his proactive approach in ensuring that our graduates and apprentices are fully supported and getting the right type of developmental experience.
Covid Hero: Elliot Gaitch
This special category introduced this year will recognise an individual that has not only gone above and beyond in their role during the pandemic, but has demonstrated their commitment to the Global Marine Group culture and values outside of their role within the business, supporting local communities or volunteering for others that have been in real need.
Second Officer Elliot, was nominated multiple times by his peers, and has been described as ‘a truly worthy Covid hero’.
Safety Champion: Jon Geddes
Jon has shown real diligence in his training and assessment of CTV Masters and Crew which has made a significant contribution to the reduction in incidents within the CWind fleet. Jon’s authenticity and setting of extremely high standards in his execution deserves to be recognised and makes him a worthy winner of the award.
Directors’ Choice: Dave Whiting
The Directors choice award this year goes to Dave, RQHSE Officer, who has been instrumental in ensuring that the business has continued to keep going despite the challenges of Covid. Dave have provided constant support to the Global Marine business unit over the past year and is always quick to respond to enquiries, supporting as best he can in every situation. A truly worthy award winner.
Congratulations and thank you to all our winners, shortlisted colleagues and nominees this year!
As an independent island nation, the UK is heavily dependent on the uninterrupted provision of communication and power services, the vast majority of which is delivered by subsea cables. But what happens when those cables are compromised? Our CEO Ian Douglas recently spoke with the National Preparedness Committee to offer a possible solution. Read the full article on their website here, along with other news, articles and reports for the commission surrounding the resilience of the UK.
In 2017 a new, young MP called Rishi Sunak provided a foreword to a Policy Exchange report on subsea cable infrastructure. He said that: ‘A successful attack on the UK’s undersea cable infrastructure would be an existential threat to our security. Yet, the exact locations of these cables are both isolated and publicly available – jugulars of the world economy which are a singularly attractive target for our enemies… most governments have not given undersea cables enough attention.’
Today, nearly all data traffic is carried via subsea communication cables which connect the UK to the rest of the world and underpin our digital economy. Around a quarter of our electricity arrives on the mainland via submarine power cables and this is rapidly expanding with the growth of offshore wind farms in particular.
Clearly, this an issue of great importance and consequence but subsea cables have yet to receive the political and policy/regulatory interest they deserve.
As well as the MP writing in 2017, the UK’s Defence Secretary and, indeed, US intelligence officials have recently spoken of Russian submarines “aggressively operating” near Atlantic cables as part of its unconventional methods of warfare. When Russia annexed Crimea, one of its first moves was to sever the main cable connection to the outside world.
Then there is the accidental damage to subsea cables through maritime activity, primarily demersal fishing (trawling) as well as ships’ anchors.
Previous events such as the ‘isolation’ of the Channel Islands in 2017 and loss of all power to the Scillies in 2016 have demonstrated the real risk of cable damage. In 2020 there were 33 emergency cable repairs in the Greater Atlantic region, with 17 to cables serving the UK.
Yet, despite communication and energy cables being an essential component of the UK’s critical national infrastructure, there is no integrated governance regime in place to mitigate the consequences of them being damaged.
A series of maintenance agreements between operators and countries served exist but these are based as much on convention and goodwill as a national security and, therefore, lack teeth and lead to inconsistent implementation. They need to be strengthened.
Network operators are increasingly taking a lax approach to their speedy restoration, potentially exposing the UK to a market environment which will not find it cost effective to repair UK subsea cables, especially when the UK is being bypassed more frequently as a main artery location. The new norm for repair times is months not days.
This is a fast-growing issue as the remaining UK cables are increasingly owned by US tech and multimedia giants but used by the UK telecommunications industry – and, indeed, HM Government – which do not have the same traditional telecommunications and connectivity approaches and requirements. These multinationals have low drivers for instant maintenance of their subsea infrastructure and typically allow multiple faults to develop before seeking to resolve them, leaving mission-critical services that rely on these cables to be ignored.
Major issues are often said to have no silver bullet. However, in this case there are clear steps the government could take, building on international best practice to build national resilience. The government should, for example, establish a governance policy fit to respond to threats both routine and hostile.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority, the Australian equivalent of Ofcom, operates an installation permit system which takes steps to ensure the safety and integrity of subsea cables. A key condition to secure such a permit is that the carrier must demonstrate that it has an adequate and available maintenance and repair solution.
The regulatory approach provides certainty in terms of operating rights as well as specific measures to protect critical infrastructure in Australian waters, ensuring a base level of resilience to the cable network overseen by government.
The UK Government should look to bolster its network resilience with a permit regime overseen by Ofcom and Ofgem and working closely with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Centre for the Protection of Critical National Infrastructure (CPNI). This would require a mandatory UK sovereign repair coverage 24/7, 365 days a year, and for a regular inspection regime, potentially mandating the use of UK-flagged vessels.
A strong and effective regulatory regime should also require providers to have a UK-based capability with cables stored in the UK and with maintenance, repair and overhaul processes provided under UK flagged vessels to support national security and strength the UK’s sovereign capability.
Such a regulatory regime will also strengthen the UK’s maritime industry and ensure that civil contingency and defence considerations are effectively addressed in a way that they are not today, giving the government more ‘directional’ options to use UK flagged vessels in a national emergency than it currently has.
It is time that the threat to subsea cables was taken seriously and the means to deliver greater resilience is fully considered by the government.
Global Marine Group is the only UK-domiciled company that lays and maintains communications cables and, as a member of Atlantic Cable Maintenance & Repair Agreement (ACMA), it operates two of the three vessels responsible for the cable repair and maintenance of systems in the North and South Atlantic, English Channel, North Sea, Caribbean Sea and South East Pacific.
Global Marine has completed the initial subsea fibre-optic cable route survey scope for the Scottish Government’s Reaching 100% Programme (R100), being delivered by Openreach on behalf of BT. The project covers inter-island connections between Orkney, Shetland, and the Inner Hebrides as well as two connections back to the Scottish mainland.
The Scottish Government-funded R100 project aspires to extend superfast broadband capabilities at speeds of at least 30Mbps to every premises in Scotland.
Utilising the extensive subsea knowledge of our sister company OceanIQ, also part of the Global Marine Group, and specialist service provider Fugro, the cable route surveys are now complete, ahead of the 16-route cable lay. The fibre optic cable installation is scheduled to commence early in 2022 and will be delivered by Global Marine’s multi-purpose vessel, Normand Clipper.
Three survey vessels were mobilised on the project to complete specific scopes of geophysical and geotechnical survey work along the different cable routes. The scope of work also included an Unexploded Ordinance (UXO) assessment. As well as land survey activities, an aerial lidar survey was conducted to acquire topographical and inter-tidal survey data and photogrammetry.
Bruce Neilson-Watts, Managing Director of Global Marine said: “We are pleased that this initial stage of the project is almost complete. The diverse elements of the subsea survey data will combine together to give a rich and detailed picture of the seabed environment and shallow soils regime, providing essential information to deliver this high-profile project safely and effectively for the long-term benefit of many of Scotland’s residents.”
Mr Neilson-Watts continued: “With 16 routes throughout the Northern and Western Isles of Scotland, there has been great cooperation between our survey teams and local fisheries, and other users of the sea to ensure safe and efficient working, with minimal disruption to all stakeholders.”
Clive Downing, R100 Programme Director, Scottish Government said: “We recently announced the start of build for Scottish Government’s R100 North contract area, where 16 new subsea cables will be laid to provide superfast broadband access to some of the hardest-to-reach areas.
“As a result of the R100 North contract many homes and business will benefit from full fibre broadband, far exceeding our superfast commitment and providing future-proofed full fibre connectivity to some of the most rural and remote communities in Scotland. This is something that will make a huge difference to both residents and businesses as we continue to work, learn and access public services remotely.”
“Fugro and Global Marine have successfully mapped out the subsea routes through complex underwater and overhead surveys and this work is the first step in connecting islanders to faster broadband. I look forward to hearing about subsea progress in the upcoming months.”
Robert Thorburn, Openreach partnership director for Scotland, added: “R100 is a hugely important project and the subsea build is both complex and sensitive. Over this summer, our specialist partners, led by Global Marine, have used innovation and technology – in the air and on land and sea – to gather the extensive, in-depth knowledge we need to design the full fibre network to more islands.”
International Women in Engineering Day (#INWED21) takes place on 23 June. We hope by sharing some of Global Marine Group’s success stories, we can help to raise the profile of women engineers across the globe, and encourage more people to consider engineering as a profession for all.
INWED is an international awareness campaign which raises the profile of women in engineering and focuses attention on the amazing career opportunities available to women and girls in this exciting industry.
Shannon Gray
“If you want to be a successful engineer then you have to be passionate about it.”
Lisbeth Sorensen
“My advice to anyone interested in becoming an engineer, would be education first and foremost.”
Ramona Vryonides
“Whatever type of engineering you specialize in, your work will focus on solving complex problems – a skill that is highly sought after in all sorts of industries.”
At Global Marine Group, we’re proud to support and nurture talent through a range of opportunities for applicants to gain experience and skills within our organisation.
Over the last 170 years, our success has been driven by our people, who are filled with passion and the creative vision to work collaboratively in order to achieve greatness.
As our people continue to deliver customer-centric solutions across the telecommunications and offshore energy markets, we know that their valuable skills can be utilised and harnessed to develop the workforce of the future.
That is why we offer a range of career development opportunities, such as work experience placements and Apprenticeships across departments such as finance, business administration and engineering.
Many of our back deck personnel were trained and qualified in-house through our training and development programs, enabling them to forge specialist careers in jointing, subsea, and cable engineering.
Our cadet program, which offers a sponsorship agreement for a cadetship alongside Ship Safe Training Group Ltd (SSTG), gives those just starting their offshore careers the opportunity to gain an Officer of the Watch qualification. Offering a mix of technical and academic training and practical experience, whereby our cadets complete work experience placements onboard our vessels around the world, our cadet program has led to very successful and prosperous careers within Global Marine Group and the wider industry.
We also have partnerships with Cadet schools in the Philippines, to develop the excellent pool of budding officer cadets there as well.
We also offer an exceptional graduate program spanning two or three years, with six-month placements around the business to gain maximum exposure to a range of departments. The program enables graduates to expand their knowledge of different markets and disciplines, as well as enabling them to discover a career path they really enjoy. Previous GMG graduates have gone on to become Project Managers, Project Engineers, Directors of Business Development and Marine Managers.
We also offer our existing colleagues a range of career development possibilities, including secondments and short-term opportunities within our international Joint Ventures or between our four business units – Global Marine, Global Offshore, CWind and OceanIQ.
The last year has been exceptionally difficult for those looking for work, and so in our latest efforts to support employment opportunities, we have committed to the UK Government’s Kickstart Scheme, which offers 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit the opportunity to gain vital skills and experience within an organisation. We hope that these work placements will enable young people to gain a passion for the offshore energy and telecoms sectors, and give them the confidence and skills needed to develop their careers.
Our commitment to transferring skills is not confined to the UK alone. As a Group, we understand that the key to our business growth and success is our diverse workforce, who bring innovative ideas and creative viewpoints to their work. Through recruiting and developing a local workforce within the communities we work in, such as the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we can help grow the sectors we work in across the globe, offering developing communities greater career opportunities in the process.
If you are interested in joining Global Marine Group, please check our careers website where you can apply for all available vacancies.
Global Marine has been awarded the desktop study, survey and cable installation scope as the turnkey contractor for BT’s R100 North contract in Northern and Western Isles off Scotland.
The Scottish Government-funded Reaching 100% Programme (R100) aspires to extend superfast broadband capabilities at speeds of at least 30Mbps to every premises in Scotland.
The festoon system in Northern and Western Scotland comprises 16 different cable routes, and will provide better broadband connections for the following communities: Colonsay, Iona and Lismore in Argyll and Bute; Eigg in the Highlands; Eday, Flotta, Hoy, Rousay, Sanday, Shapinsay and Stronsay in Orkney; Fair Isle, Unst, Whalsay and Yell in Shetland.
Desk Top Study work and initial project permitting has been completed by sister company OceanIQ, also part of the Global Marine Group. Survey vessels will be mobilised onto the project, including the completion of specific UXO hazard assessments following the guidance of the risk assessment and mitigations strategies, from Spring 2021. From Spring 2022, Global Marine will be utilising cable installation vessel Normand Clipper to lay the cable.
Bruce Neilson-Watts, Managing Director of Global Marine said: “This is an exciting project for us that will have a hugely positive impact on the residents of the 15 different islands included in the scope of the work. Quicker and more reliable connectivity is extremely valuable, never more so than right now with the world operating much more remotely than it ever has done.”
Mr Neilson-Watts continued: “Our in-house knowledge and track record for the planning and installation of systems such as this means we have the flexibility and agility to structure the work around the current economic climate as effectively as possible.”
Robert Thorburn, partnership director at Openreach, which is delivering the R100 contracts on behalf of BT, said: “Following the excellent progress of our live Scotland-Northern Ireland cable project with Global Marine, we’re looking forward to working with them once again in the coming months.
“The R100 programme will deliver a tangible improvement to so many individuals and businesses across Scotland’s network of islands and the subsea programme will be the first, vital step in bringing reliable, fast broadband to some of the most remote communities in the UK.”
In celebration and recognition of this year’s International Women’s Day, we asked a few of our colleagues to share their thoughts, views and opinions on what the day means to them.
Zalina Rahmat, Fleet Resourcing Executive – Subsea & Cable, Global Marine Group
International Women’s Day is well-known to celebrate the achievements of women and rallying for equality and gender parity. I feel that, even in this generation, women are facing bias environment and disparity in both social and working culture. Together, we can show our support and empower the women all around the world.
In my experience, working professionals, identifying as women, can face gender inequality, and can sometimes be branded as a stereotype, which typically can lead to difficulties in career advancement or not receiving pay parity.
Having worked at Global Marine Group (GMG) for more than five years, I have seen the company embracing diversity and support of women, encouraging us to step up and pursue goals that traditionally could have favoured males.
GMG advocates upskilling and investing in their employees, as well as providing platforms for us, as women, to have our voices heard.
For the future, I would like to see all women around the world given equal opportunities, respect, and rights in their working environments, and for all companies to support the empowering of women.
To all the women in GMG and around the world, we can always remind one another, WE are making a difference and WE have the power to define who we are.
Ana Espana Diaz, Project Engineer, Global Marine Group
Personally, I have not seen any special challenge for being a woman in the workplace. I have been always treated as equal in the Engineering Team.
I have moved recently from Onshore EPC companies to my current position at Global Offshore, Part of the Global Marine Group, and my colleagues and in particular, my manager, have spent time helping my development and monitoring my progression and they are always willing to provide support where needed.
My manager had a great deal of trust in my abilities from the start and challenged me to come out of my comfort zone. I appreciate this tremendously as I feel I have experienced a range of project disciplines over a short period of time, thus resulting in a better understanding and knowledge of the different business areas. This is one of the main reasons I am grateful and motivated to drive my career in GMG.
I am also eternally grateful to my husband who has always supported me, especially at the beginning of this new challenge and for understanding the importance of my career development.
With the opportunities afforded to me, I have been able to change sector and country, applying my knowledge within different backgrounds and quickly adapting to new ways of working. This has been the biggest achievement of my career.
My next step will be to progress in my department and at the same time get my chartership as professional Engineer.
I feel that GMG offers equality in the workplace already, and as I see it, the company and managers trust in the potential of the people, no matter the gender. I really hope that in upcoming years, as more women join my department, they enjoy the dynamic environment and challenging workplace as much I do.
I really hope that the workplace continues in this way, with focus on the ability and potential of people irrespective of gender.
Sheryl Ong, Commercial Manager, Asia, Global Marine Group
In think one of the challenges for women in the workplace is finding the right balance of family/work life. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, women who were primary caregivers, sometimes had flexible work arrangements due to childcare requirements, which sometimes may not have been welcomed by some employers. I think the greatest change in this new decade, thanks to COVID-19, is that flexible work arrangements are now ‘the norm’ and actually embraced by most organisations.
This provides every individual an opportunity to experience what it is like to have flexible working arrangements. Working with children around, managing family logistics, and tending to family needs are now shared amongst family members for many more than before thanks to this new ‘home working’. Some of the challenges faced by us when forced to work from home, are actually the very same challenges for women in the workplace. With flexible work arrangements now being widely accepted, this may perhaps help to ease the challenges faced by women.
One thing I am certain is that opportunities are always out there. Sometimes, they come to you, but at times, you need to hunt for them yourself. The first step is to make your personal goals known, so that others are aware and able to help support you. Next step would be to never stop learning. Always look out for opportunities where you can learn and gain knowledge in new areas. I am very fortunate to have an extremely supportive and encouraging line manager.
GMG places a large amount of emphasis on ensuring there is equality and zero bias / discrimination within the workplace. This includes organising events and activities that are suitable for all genders, offering equal opportunities to one and all, and being a family-friendly workplace by supporting those with children and encouraging families to be engaged in activities together.
In conclusion, I hope for the future that all women can be treated with respect.
Michelle Morgan, Technical Author, Universal Joints, Global Marine Group
In my opinion, women in the workplace face discrimination for a number of reasons, but the main ones are perception, workload and expectations, and quotas.
Perception: There are still many assumptions around female employees, for example that they are led by emotion rather than logic, are less skilled, less interested in advancing, etc. Not only are these assumptions generally wrong, they could apply to anyone, they are not gender specific. Everyone has their own mix of skills, brain wiring and desires in work, and the most successful teams harness all these differences.
Workload and expectations: Workload on women in terms of outside of work can be greater, often still acting as primary carers for older and younger family members, however the work environment does not always recognise this. Their careers are often interrupted/slowed down due to having children, and women around the world are often still sadly paid less than men for the same job.
Quotas: I had an interview once where they said “We have a female engineering working for us at the moment, would you like to meet her?” Oh dear, quota already ticked. We seem to have moved on from those days, especially at Global Marine Group (GMG), although there is still more to do in many other companies globally.
With the above three points in mind, that is why working at GMG is so different. Within my department I have always felt supported and respected, I have never felt questioned due to my gender, or about my ability and the skills I can bring to our team. I have been supported with flexibility but still with opportunities (and encouragement) to take on more responsibilities.
I have even had to opportunity to work on secondments – being borrowed by other departments based on my skills – which is one of my greatest professional achievements.
Two secondments in particular stand out – creating a capacity planning model to help understand the loading and providing the ability to plan a busy factory’s production as the company didn’t have a full MRPII system.
The second was a mass of mathematical modelling to calculate LNG loss from Boil of Gas for LNG shipping routes, comparing, and evaluating for a client what size and combination of vessels would be required to transport the contracted amount of LNG per year. I like challenging puzzles that do not feel like work; and being recognised outside your department is very rewarding.
In order to improve equality, people must have a greater understanding on the true meaning of equality and unconscious bias. It takes time to change preconceptions but recognising you have them, and making a plan to reduce them, is the first step. Having people in leadership roles mentor and champion women and showing you know women can add to the dynamic of the business, are equally important. Both men and women working together leads to great things (one is not better than other!) so you need to regularly review to ensure there are no gender or other inequality pay gaps.
GMG has a few role models in higher positions and recent promotions within the business, including the new female MD of OceanIQ, show opportunities are there if you want them. The company also has a number of engagement activities which help break down any general feelings of inequality. These include: new starter breakfasts with the CEO – being able to talk in small groups about your role and background, the internal communications ‘shout-outs’ giving little windows into what the other departments do and who they are made up of, and the break out areas, giving opportunity to sit for lunch with anyone at any level within the business (prior to the pandemic).
In the future, I hope we can irradicate this focus on ‘quotas’ – all jobs need to be awarded to the best candidate to complete that role. Everyone has different talents, strengths and weakness, and we should all know by now that these are not defined by appearances/physical differences. I think we need to work towards capability assessments for each role which rank the skills required to help measure people evenly on what abilities they bring to the team.
I hope the current momentum towards flexible working for everyone will lead to the ability to progress at work being based on a person’s performance, which should be evaluated on quality of output not hours sat at a desk. We all need to redefine the measures for success and performance, which in turn should help the work-life balance for everyone.
And finally, I hope that when someone attends a meeting, there are no assumptions of people’s job roles based on their appearance, and that each voice at the table is listened to, no matter their role.
Global Marine Group offers university graduates the opportunity to join the Company and experience a range of roles to gain important opportunities and insight into many different aspects of an offshore engineering company.
Rebecca Firth, Reuben Capstick and Matthew Planas, are the latest graduates to join the scheme and are currently working alongside the OceanIQ team, Global Marine Group’s Engineering Department and Global Marine’s Project Delivery team respectively.
Watch their videos below to find out more about their backgrounds and why they chose Global Marine Group to enhance their future careers in subsea engineering.
Rebecca Firth
“The Global Marine Group Graduate Scheme offers great training and a support network of people who are experts in their field. I am very much looking forward to developing my career with GMG.”
Reuben Capstick
“The support given to new graduates is second to none, where you are never left in the dark, and the comradery between senior management to graduate is outstanding.”
Matthew Planas
“Joining Global Marine Group during the pandemic has definitely been a highlight, everyone in my team has been very welcoming and open since my first day.”
If you have any questions about Global Marine Group’s Graduate Scheme, please send them to info@globalmarine.group.
