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Recruiter - Crew Operations

Leer, Aberdeen, Berlin, EXT-Services / Vendor Location, Remote England, Remote Latvia, Remote Poland...
Full-time
Permanent employee

Your mission

You will focus on sourcing, screening and placing highly qualified and experienced crew who meet industry standards as a minimum, hold the required certification, and satisfy client and stakeholder expectations, while ensuring recruitment activities are efficient, cost-effective and compliant with national and international regulations.
 
What You’ll Do
  • Be the focal point of contact for offshore crew recruitment and sourcing
  • Manages the full recruitment life cycle from vacancy request through to onboarding handover
  • Builds and maintains a qualified talent pool of seagoing personnel to meet current and future manning needs
  • Ensures candidates meet STCW, MLC and client/tender certification requirements before progressing
  • Confirms candidate readiness and maintains regular contact throughout the recruitment process
  • Monitors legal instructions and maritime laws and regulations relevant to recruitment and employment
  • Ensures new/local regulations are followed and that recruitment practices remain compliant
  • Makes cost-effective sourcing and recruitment decisions based on all information available
  • Drives the development of recruitment processes to provide a high standard service to the crewing department, candidates and stakeholders
  • Oversees that candidates are equipped with, or scheduled for, the right certification and training to comply with tender requirements, maritime legislation and UOS standards
  • Takes an active part in audits and audit follow ups and ensures that recruitment records and files are up to the required standards
  • Continuously drives process improvements and incorporates lessons learned to consistently enhance the candidate experience.
  • Creates, maintains, analyses and monitors recruitment budgets and agency costs
  • Fulfils other administrative duties
 

Your profile

What You’ll Bring

  • Degree or experience in HR, Nautical Science or similar
  • Offshore/seagoing background strongly preferred (e.g. prior service aboard offshore support vessels or similar), providing credibility in the technical vetting of seafaring candidates
  • 2-4 years' experience in recruitment: job postings, active sourcing, interviews scheduling, manning agencies contact etc. ideally within an international shipping, offshore or oil & gas company
  • Working knowledge of STCW and MLC regulations and how they apply to crew certification
  • Experience using applicant tracking systems and/or crew/manning databases
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills at all levels
  • Demonstrates confidentiality and integrity in all professional matters
  • Experience in dealing with confidential and highly sensitive information
  • Experience with international travel arrangements and coordination of pre-joining logistics
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. German is a great plus.

Why us?

United Offshore Support GmbH (UOS) is a leading global operator of sophisticated offshore support vessels specializing in the technical, crew and commercial management of high-powered anchor handling tug/supply (AHTS) vessels, large platform supply vessels (PSVs) and subsea vessels working in the offshore energy industry worldwide. Headquartered in Leer Germany, UOS has a growing office in Aberdeen and commercial management presence in London and Singapore. The on and offshore teams at UOS are highly experienced with a long track record of delivering safe and reliable operations to end clients in just about every offshore energy basin around the world.


At UOS, we manage a global offshore workforce supporting vessels and projects around the world. We are looking for an experienced Recruiter - Crew Operations to manage the end-to-end recruitment of seagoing personnel (officers, ratings and specialist crew) for the company's offshore support vessel fleet serving the oil and gas industry.


Why UOS?

  • International offshore environment
  • Flexible working hours and working from home options
  • High level of responsibility and ownership
  • Opportunity to shape and improve processes
  • Growing business with long-term career opportunities


Ready to make an impact? We’d love to hear from you.


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