Daniel Joseph Wade
Waltham,NE Lincs
Summary
With 24 years of offshore experience in UK waters, this professional excels in operational and safety-focused environments. Demonstrated expertise in health and safety compliance, training and development, and shift operations management ensures punctuality and reliability. Adept at adapting to change, performance assessment, equipment operation, and incident reporting, the candidate is committed to enhancing operational efficiency while maintaining high safety standards.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Shift supervisor
Conocophillips/Chrysaor/Harbour Energy
Aberdeen
04.2018 - 12.2025
- In this role I am responsible for the day to day operations of the Judy platform which includes Jade when unmanned and Joanne subsea. I was designated the permit verifier and isolation supervisor within the control of work system. In these roles I have the responsibility that permits are fit for purpose and inline with company procedures. The isolation supervisor role ensures any isolation is within standard and in line with company isolation procedures which align to HSG253.I am also responsible for Locked open/Locked closed valves and fugitive emission monitoring and recording. The day to day aspect of the role is to direct the operations team including x2 CRO's and x4 area operations technicians to maintain production within targets safely and in line with procedures. This may be from requests from onshore or from ensuring the plant is operated correctly. If any plant issues were identified I would collaborate with other trades to ensure a timely rectification to allow maximised production to resume. I am responsible for planning the daily work tasks for the operations team and utilise maximo maintenance system for this to ensure all operations PM's are complete in time and inline with performance standards.
- Delegated tasks to staff members to ensure efficient shift operation.
- Carried out shift handovers with back to back shift supervisors and also within the larger Platform leadership team.
- I have responsibility for performance management of 4 harbour employees along with 4 contract employees. The role is now also the sole Harbour energy supervision on nights for 48 personnel and this includes monitoring of multiple teams and workscopes to ensure they are being conducted safely. Reporting of any safety concerns/incidents to the dayshift.
- Throughout my time as a Operations co-ordinator/ Shift supervisor I have been a member of the platform Emergency Command Centre in the positions of historian or incident liaison with the on scene commander. I have completed the offshore regulations training course in 2018 and 2025.This included Health and safety at work act, Safety case regulations,Design and construction regulations, PFEER, PUWER. I have also completed OIM management of major emergency training.
J area single train maintenance team
Harbour energy
Aberdeen
03.2014 - 04.2018
- My responsibilities in this role were to assist in the planning and execution of maintenance campaigns initially on Judy gas turbines.
- This role was based in the company offices in Aberdeen with offshore mobilisations for the execution phase of the planned activities.
- Developed permits and isolations for various work scopes, along with requisite job step plans.
Contributed to outage plan creation for seamless operations.
Led offshore vendor supervision, acting as the primary contact for troubleshooting and material verification.
Coordinated with onshore vendor personnel to enhance communication and collaboration. - Assumed barge team leader role in August 2016, facilitating co-ordination of project teams, asset integrity teams, and vendors during Judy compression optimisation project (JCOP) and 2016 maintenance shutdown.
- The Judy Compression Optimisation project (JCOP)was a large scale compression upgrade for Judy to assist in maximising production at lower suction pressures. I had 3 direct reports in this role to assist with instrument and electrical queries the project may have. I became the main operations focal point during the commissioning of the upgraded compression trains. This included identification of logic issues which were different from original intent. During the commissioning phase I trained up any involved operators with the changes to the equipment and logic to ensure they were capable to operate the upgraded compression trains.
- Post commissioning of the compressors I wrote a Job step plan to allow the compression trains to be set up correctly post any maintenance outage to prevent any excursion from design.
- My role in the single train team expanded from being responsible for Judy gas turbine maintenance to campaign maintenance outages on separation vessels on Judy. These included Separator desanding, Zinc Oxide bed media replacement and larger annual shutdowns were my position was responsible for progress reporting, dealing with any emerging issues and communicating these with onshore support
lead tech
Judy Operations
Aberdeen
08.2010 - 02.2014
- During this role I was responsible for creation of isolations, mentoring of operations personnel, Permit office duties including permit issuing in line with company procedures.
- This period was a busy period with the Major brownfield modifications for the Jasmine project taking place. This included attendance at a number of HAZOPs at the contractors office in London.
- I also covered for an experienced CRO who was seconded to the project. I covered him for 6 months along with doing additional duties.
- During the start up of the Jasmine project I was asked to be the platform liaison with the start up team. This included reviewing of the procedures to be used to start up production safely. Directing the Judy CRO's when the start up team were ready to progress between phases. Jasmine production successfully brought online without incident and on time.
J area operations engineer-secondment
Conocophillips
Aberdeen
09.2007 - 07.2010
- My responsibilities in this job included monitoring of J area facilities to ensure operational issues could be identified upfront,
- Providing assistance to offshore teams with Plant operation fault finding and start ups.
- Monitoring of plant efficiencies to allow early planning of intervention scopes such as 3 phase separator desanding and ZnO bed media replacement.
- Supervision of vendor personnel offshore during the scopes mentioned above.
- Organizing and attending HAZOPs/HAZIDs/MOC's for upcoming intervention scopes
CRO
Judy
Aberdeen, Aberdeen City
09.2005 - 09.2007
- Duties involved the monitoring and control of plant and equipment to maintain production in a safe manner.
- Monitoring of fire and gas system to ensure process incidents could be identified and dealt with in an efficient manner.
- Ensuring production rates were inline with customer nominations
- Emergency response to any emergency on the platform whether raise through the DCS or by personnel.
Viking Bravo-Operations specialist
Coconocphillips
Great Yarmouth
01.2002 - 08.2005
- Duties included monitoring plant and equipment.
- CRO training until competent which I achieved in 12 months.
- Preparation of shutdown isolations and job step plans as shutdown focal point.
- Assisting onshore engineering with the design and writing of operations manuals for a new install coalescing filter.
- During this time i commenced studying for a Chemical engineering degree via distance learning. I completed 2 years of the course but had to leave due to ill health and work commitments.
Operations technician
Kellogg brown root
08.2001 - 12.2001
- Duties included monitoring of process equipment, isolation and deisolation of equipment.
- Creating isolations for maintenance activities
ECITB-Process and control apprenticeship
Conocophillips
Aberdeen, Aberdeen City
08.1997 - 07.2001
- This apprenticeship included 2 years based at Aberdeen college Altens site. The first 6 months included multi trade training in mechanical,electrical and instrumentation before focusing on Process operation and control.
- Post the 2 years college based learning I was posted to Theddlethorpe gas terminal for 6 months, LOGGs for 12 months and Viking Bravo for 6 months.
- The apprenticeship resulted in a level 3 NVQ in process operation and control and HNC in process operation and control.
Education
Incident investigation
COMET
AberdeenCOSHH assessor
University of Aberdeen
AberdeenHNC - Process operation and control
University of Sunderland
Sunderland 08.1999 - 08.2000
Skills
- Adapting to change
- Health and Safety Compliance
- Production plan implementation
- Shift operations management
- Team Leadership
Affiliations
- Season ticket holder at Grimsby Town FC
- Member of Cleethorpes golf club
Certification
I have completed the following courses during my time with Harbour Energy
- Further offshore emergency training(FOET) including use of escape chutes
- MIST( Minimum industry safety training)
- OEUK medical valid until 2027
- CRO Management of major emergencies (MOME)
- Offshore installation manager management of major emergencies training.
- Authorised gas tester
- Competence assessor training
- Confined space entry training
- Energy institute Environmental awareness
- OPEP level 1 Offshore on scene commander
- CAA offshore aeronautical radio operators certificate
- UK offshore regulations valid until 2028
- Working at height level 2
- Offshore search and rescue management(OSRAM)
Timeline
Shift supervisor
Conocophillips/Chrysaor/Harbour Energy
04.2018 - 12.2025
J area single train maintenance team
Harbour energy
03.2014 - 04.2018
lead tech
Judy Operations
08.2010 - 02.2014
J area operations engineer-secondment
Conocophillips
09.2007 - 07.2010
CRO
Judy
09.2005 - 09.2007
Viking Bravo-Operations specialist
Coconocphillips
01.2002 - 08.2005
Operations technician
Kellogg brown root
08.2001 - 12.2001
HNC - Process operation and control
University of Sunderland
08.1999 - 08.2000
ECITB-Process and control apprenticeship
Conocophillips
08.1997 - 07.2001
Incident investigation
COMET
COSHH assessor
University of Aberdeen