Manager Marine Liaison (7912)

Are you looking for an opportunity with plenty of growth potential? Do you enjoy working in an exciting, fast-paced, collaborative environment? Are you interested in working with the world’s most innovative companies to create a more connected world?

Connecting Continents. Impacting Communities.

The backbone of the Internet is a series of high-tech subsea fiber optic cables deployed throughout the globe - SubCom has deployed over 50% of them. Our employees ensure data communications networks are engineered, manufactured, deployed to the highest standards, enabling faster and more reliable connectivity to communities worldwide. Every member of the SubCom team plays a role in an end-to-end process that is critical to enterprises, governments, big cities, and rural towns.

We encourage, expect, and value creativity, thoughtful risk taking, openness to change, and diverse perspectives. Whether you’re a seasoned applicant seeking a new and exciting challenge, or you’re new to the workforce and looking for a flexible, rewarding, and fast-paced position with an innovative and stable organization (since 1953), SubCom has opportunities to advance your career.

Position Overview

The Marine Liaison Manager is responsible for all marine and fishing liaison activities for cable installation supply contracts by providing risk assessment and mitigation of manmade impacts to undersea cables.

Responsibilities include risk assessment, recommend mitigation measures, and develop fishing agreements, support surveys and cable installation to minimize fishing interference. The group is also responsible for cable awareness programs and for growing our Automatic Identification System AIS monitoring programs in support of our maintenance contracts. This includes identifying cable awareness sales opportunities, developing technical and cost proposals, closing the sale, and executing the work. A direct customer interface is required of this position.

Responsibilities

• Provide cable risk assessments and fault risk analyses for new systems
• Support cable planning, installation and operation phase
• Maintain SubCom Cable Fault Database and update records from available sources
• Conduct or contract fisheries desktop study, identify fishing hazards before survey and pass relevant information to route survey group
• In cooperation with cable owners conduct liaison with fishing industry prior to cable routing, where appropriate
• Provide fisheries information to installation and repair personnel
• Notify fishermen and mariners prior to cable operations
• Support the contracting of guard vessels to support installations
• Develop cable awareness programs for system owners, work with cable owners to develop policies regarding fishing
• Make port visits to inform fishing fleets of cable routes, develop and distribute flyers showing new cable routes
• Develop databases of fisheries contacts in various regions and negotiate fishing agreements
• Develop and maintain procedures for Vessel Snag Hotline operations, train hotline staff in procedures.
• Work within Automatic Identification System (AIS) monitoring programs in support of our maintenance contracts including refining vessel monitoring methods and refining effective criteria for automated alerts, making recommendations for AIS data feed and/or antenna placement, and management of staff to conduct this work.
• Maintain and enhance SubCom’s presence in the field through contacts with fishing experts and by presenting at conferences and meetings
• Manage relationships with subcontractors and other supplier