Kevin Melville

• Deck foreman duties
• Installation of concrete mattresses
• Full demobilisation

• Mobilisation of vessell for cable installation
• Preparing vessell for cable installation
• Cable loadout
• Cable installation
• Managing deck riggers on shift

• Transpooling umbilical operations
• Vertical spooling from factory to vessel carousel
• General lifting operations to mobilse vessel

• Supported deck team riggers and external parties in completing tasks on vessel's deck.
• Communicated with team regarding specific tasks needing completion.

Led deck crew during mobilisation of cable loadout.

• Overseeing deck team, riggers, and third parties executing tasks on vessel's deck.
• Communicated specific tasks to team members during meetings
• Lead the deck crew during subsea cable installation; managing cps assemblies, cutting co assemblies and overboard deployment operations.
• supervising equipment such as tensioners ensuring safety, conducting briefings and communicating with bridge to ensure cable lay safety.

• Loading export cable for transportation to USA
• Securing sea fastening

• Working on the Boka Ocean cable-laying vessel at the Bokrum Offshore Wind Farm.
• Perform cable layout from quayside to vessel.
• Duties include cable end preparation, cutting, and sealing. Assembling CPS systems for both power and fibre cable.
• Proceed with cable installation and laying. Other duties include general deck duties, moving operations, and maintenance tasks.
• Educating and mentoring colleagues.

• Shore-end cable pulls Coll - Tiree, Shetland Mossbank - Yell
• Mobilising and setting up the shore end for the cable pull.
• Performing cable pulls.
• Demobilising sites.

• Assisting and setting up tensioners and box rollers for cable transfer between tanks.
• Completed transfer of cable.

• Assisting setting up queyside 15 tonne tensioners.
• Assembling chute.
• Laying highway of box rollers for cable loading from barge to queyside storage tank.

• Team lead, Directed team activities, maintaining focus on health and safety standards. Delegated tasks to complete lifing operations
• Working on-board SOV Vestri Enabler on NNG Windfarm
• Executed lifting operations between vessel and tower.
• Removing back-up generators across NNG Site

Cable pull on Sofia Windfarm OCP Platform prepare winches and rigging for fibre cable pull and HV Cable pull

Strip cable and install hang off clamp

De-mobilisation of site

• Served as acting foreman during shoreside operations
• Setting up winches, quadrants, box-rollers and other equipment for preparation of beach pull both ends for cable lay between Kirkwall and Shapinsay
• Trenched and buried cables
• Demobilise site.

• Cable loadout from JDR factory
• Assisting and setting up queyside equipment
• Assisting loading cable onto barge for transportation.

• Assisting setting up quayside equipment for unload of cable from ship to storage tanks, and then demobilise site.

• Replacing alternators from generators on off shore wind farm, working aboard Vos Stone ship
• Lifted and loaded goods using safe rigging and lashing techniques for secure equipment installations.
• Attached pulleys and blocks to fixed overhead structures using bolts and clamps for secure rigs.

• Cable Scrappage from storage tanks and reels.

Working onboard Viking Neptun

Cable installations across NNG windfarm

• Mobilise NP459 barge in Rotterdam for cable replacement, removed and replaced CPS and cable from tower
• Return to Rotterdam for demob of barge

• Set up cable spooler and level winder. Set out roller boxes.
• Load cable onto drum straight from factory
• Transfer spooler and drum loaded with cable onboard ship

• Working as part of a team on MV Elektron preparing ship for cable lay, loading equipment.
• Load vessel with sub sea cable
• Assisting to lay cable from the ship to shore.

• Working as part of a team on MV Elektron, preparing ship for cable lay, loading equipment and setting up equipment to prepare for cable lay
• Load vessel with sub sea cable
• Assisting to lay cable from the ship to shore.

• Working as part of a team on the shoreside, helping to set up equipment and prepare site for receiving sub-sea fibre and power cable installation.
• Used proper rigging apparatus (chains, slings, , ropes) and techniques to perform safe and proper lifting.