Suffolk Survey & Subsea Services (S4) recently conducted a 4-day Survey Project Management Course with issued attendance Certificates for Briggs Marine operations management team (Marine Services).

The team largely provide all operational & commercial support for the companies 5 UK strategically located Guardian MCA Cat 2 coastal survey vessel fleet and 6m road transportable survey cat, UK Environment Agency contract operations & support including all the EA’s numerous smaller fleet vessels, amongst other client marine support and operations.

The course was held at Briggs office in Stamford, Lincolnshire, providing excellent support, training aids and hospitality.

With S4 having closely supported Briggs for a number of years and since 2013 with survey & consultancy support, the course was tailored to Briggs owned marine fleet assets and past surveys and data examples.

Subjects covered included – Professionalism, Communications, Continuity of actions, Document control, PM procedures & process (Prince 2 flow), Tendering & Commercials (best practise), Fit for purpose resourcing (vessels, equipment, personnel, software etc.), Client meetings & liaison, Client negotiations, Project legal/ contractual interaction & liaison, Department & management colleague liaison, Project preparations (kick off meetings client & internal, site visit, sub contractors meetings, audits etc.), Project HIR/ Risk and QHSE liaison, Project pre job briefings/ inductions, PM project visibility, Project actions, Project daily interaction & liaison/ reporting and comms protocols (client, sub cons, offshore and office), Project resource tracking, Project cost control & reporting, Project washups/ lessons learned.