Offshore Stock Keeper-Brooklyn, NY

About the role

The Offshore Stock Keeper is the accountable owner of all materials, tooling, consumables, lifting gear, and inventory control processes aboard the Service Operations Vessel. This role ensures materials are correctly forecasted, received, controlled, maintained, and available to support safe and uninterrupted offshore operations.

Responsibilities

• Act as the offshore material readiness owner, ensuring no work proceeds without compliant, available, and validated materials, tools, and equipment.
• Ensure all materials required for scheduled maintenance are forecasted and ordered more than six months in advance in alignment with approved operational plans.
• Evaluate consumption trends and global V236 fleet behaviors to anticipate future material demand and prevent offshore shortages.
• Conduct rotation-start material readiness reviews to confirm inventory sufficiency, identify surplus for offloading, and flag items nearing expiry.
• Track and manage expiry dates for all chemicals and consumables, ensuring only valid materials are available for planned work.
• Propose Safety Stock and demand forecast adjustments based on consumption trends, operational plans, and risk assessments for approval by the SOV Shift Manager.
• Raise, track, and actively manage all P70/P80 urgent material requests through suppliers, warehouses, logistics channels, and vessel arrival points.
• Provide clear, proactive daily communication to the SOV Shift Manager, Offshore Shift Supervisor, and Lead Tech regarding material ETAs, risks, shortages, and mitigation options.
• Serve as the primary offshore interface to the Onshore (ONS) Warehouse Coordinator, coordinating inbound and outbound shipments, port-call readiness, and pending transactions.
• Verify and receive materials transferred to the SOV, ensuring correct documentation, condition, compliance, and readiness for offshore execution.
• Perform and validate all Goods Receipt and Delivery Note processes in SAP, verifying quantity, condition, expiry, and batch or serial data.
• Maintain detailed knowledge of alternative vendors, backup stock locations, and approved substitute components or sizes.
• Maintain oversight of all tools, rigging, slings, shackles, lift bags, and mechanical lifting aids, ensuring availability, certification, and serviceability.
• Conduct and document pre-use inspections and periodic certification checks for rigging gear, lift bags, and tools.
• Maintain accurate labeling, storage, and segregation of all onboard materials and manage SAP-compliant returns for unused parts.
• Maintain oversight of all tools, rigging, slinging, shackles, lift bags, and mechanical lifting aids, ensuring availability, certification, and serviceability.
• Perform routine cycle counts each rotation and full inventory counts per corporate requirements, investigating discrepancies and supporting audits.
• Identify materials suitable for surplus, DEF, or REN processes and coordinate compliant packaging, documentation, and return logistics.
• Create, document, and track NCRs for damaged, missing, or non-conforming materials and support close-out actions.
• Provide structured inventory and readiness updates to the SOV Shift Manager covering upcoming expiries, rotation preparedness, risks, and discrepancies.
• Maintain safe, compliant warehouse and storage environments onboard the SOV, including hazardous-material handling and segregation controls.
• Ensure compliance with all lifting, rigging, tool-handling, and storage procedures while maintaining daily 5S standards.
• Serve as a qualified Rigging Inspector and Fire Extinguisher Inspector, performing annual, periodic, and pre-transfer inspections as required.

Essential Functions

• Ability to work independently and make time-critical decisions supporting turbine availability.
• Ability to maintain high organizational standards in a limited-space offshore warehouse.
• Ability to perform repetitive stock handling safely in varying weather and vessel motion conditions.
• Ability to understand administrative tasks, tooling needs, technical demands, and safe work sequences.
• Ability to work and live on an SOV for extended rotations.
• Ability to obtain OEUK Medical Clearance and successfully pass a Chester Step Test.

Education, Training, and Skills Required

• Strong SAP competency or the ability to learn SAP quickly.
• Experience in logistics, warehouse operations, or inventory control, ideally in an offshore environment.
• A strong understanding of Safety Stock principles, demand forecasting, and supply chain dependencies.
• A high degree of computer literacy, including Excel, SharePoint, Outlook, and MS Teams.
• Strong communication and coordination capabilities.
• The ability to complete rigging inspector and fire extinguisher inspector qualifications.
• Offshore or marine logistics experience.
• Experience using SAP transactions such as MIGO, VL10G, VL06P, MB52, MI04, and MI05 or similar tools.
• Previous wind turbine or broader energy-sector experience.
• Familiarity with V236 platform material requirements.

Physical Demands

• Ability to work and live onboard a Service Operations Vessel in various weather conditions and sea swells.
• Ability to frequently walk, stand, look up/down, balance, stoop, twist, kneel, and bend.
• Ability to frequently lift, push, pull, and carry items up to 50 lbs.

Work Environment

The work environment described below represents the conditions an employee typically encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. This role is primarily performed onboard a Service Operations Vessel (SOV) at sea and within offshore wind turbines. Work areas may include confined spaces, elevated locations, and marine environments. Noise levels can range from moderate to high, depending on operational activity and equipment use. Motion from sea swells should be expected while aboard the vessel. Living and working conditions may vary based on the specific SOV configuration. Typical vessel accommodations may include sleeping quarters, restroom and shower facilities, meal service, and shared or designated recreational areas. These conditions are not guaranteed and may differ by vessel or assignment.

Pay

Hourly compensation $24-28/h, with additional and allowances for offshore work.

DEIB Statement

We recognize the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion in driving innovation and success. We strongly encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, particularly those who may hesitate due to their identity or feel they do not meet every criterion. As our CEO states, "Expertise and talent come in many forms, and a diverse workforce enhances our ability to think differently and solve the complex challenges of our industry."