Offshore and wind project mobilization process map

What is in this map

17 steps across 5 swimlanes and 5 phases, with 2 decision points.

Swimlanes (who does the work)

ServiceDesk, HSE / Compliance, Field Electrical, Project Manager and Customer

Phases (left to right)

Planning & competence, Mobilization & travel, Site induction & execution, Inspection & demobilization and Documentation

Why map this process

Offshore and wind sites can refuse entry to a technician whose safety training has lapsed, which makes certification the one decision that has to clear before anything else on this map is worth planning. The gate's own comment spells out what 'current' actually means — the certificate's expiry date, the specific module set (GWO Basic Safety Training, sea survival, working at height, first aid, manual handling, fire awareness), and any site-specific add-on like helicopter or CTV transfer training, all matching what THIS site requires today. The comment ends with a line worth keeping verbatim in any adaptation: a technician without current certification does not go to site, full stop.

The map is also honest about whose induction it is. The site-induction row's comment notes it is run by the site operator, not by the contractor, and that it's site-specific — a wind farm's muster points, comms channels and permit-to-work system are not the last site's. Drawing that as a distinct step, owned outside your own organization, is what keeps a crew from assuming one induction covers every site they'll ever mobilize to.

Every step in the map

This is the spreadsheet behind the diagram. The numbers in “Goes to” are row numbers, which is exactly what the editor’s “Line to” column holds — so you can read the flow here and retype any part of it.

The decision points

Every branch in the map, with the label on each outgoing line. These are the questions the process has to be able to answer.

• 4. All assigned technicians hold **current GWO and offshore safety certification** for this site?

  Owned by HSE / Compliance · Planning & competence

  • Certified → step 6
  • Not certified → step 5

• 12. Inspection and testing results **acceptable** for demobilization?

  Owned by Field Electrical · Inspection & demobilization

  • Acceptable → step 14
  • Not acceptable → step 13

Notes on specific steps

These notes travel with the map. In the editor they live in the Notes column and appear when you open a box.

1. Offshore/wind project mobilization request received

Customer or Scanel's own project team confirms the site, whether an offshore platform, a wind turbine installation or an onshore renewable site, the scope of work and the access window. Certification, equipment and travel are planned against this record, not against a verbal understanding of the job.

4. All assigned technicians hold **current GWO and offshore safety certification** for this site?

Current means the certificate's expiry date, the module set (GWO Basic Safety Training, sea survival, working at height, first aid, manual handling, fire awareness) and any site-specific add-on such as helicopter or CTV transfer training all match what this site requires today, not what the technician held on a previous job. A technician without current GWO certification does not go to site, full stop.

7. Plan travel and mobilization logistics (transport, accommodation, *weather window*)

Offshore transfer (CTV or helicopter, weather-dependent), accommodation and the return leg are booked together, because a mobilization that gets a technician to the harbour but not onto the transfer vessel is not a mobilization.

9. Complete site safety induction and *permit-to-work* briefing

Run by the site operator, not by Scanel, and it is site-specific: a wind farm's own induction covers its muster points, comms channels and permit-to-work system, which are not the same as the last site's. No technician starts work execution before this is signed off.

12. Inspection and testing results **acceptable** for demobilization?

Acceptable means the results match the same pass criteria Scanel uses to bring a system into service elsewhere in its work; a marginal reading is not a pass. A technician boards the return transfer with the tools they arrived with, not with an open item that becomes someone else's problem on the next visit.

Making it yours

Phases (Planning & competence, Mobilization & travel, Site induction & execution, Inspection & demobilization, Documentation) run Horizontal lane; the five roles run Vertical lane. When adapting the certification-check row, keep the module list in its Notes column specific to the site type — a fixed platform, a wind turbine installation and an onshore renewable site don't all require the same training stack, and that's exactly the kind of detail that belongs in Notes rather than a new branch.

What to watch out for

• Don't let 'reassign or train' become a quiet workaround for skipping the gate. The map loops an uncertified technician back to confirm-site-scope, not forward to mobilization — the point is a different, certified person goes, or training happens first, not that the trip proceeds anyway with a plan to sort it out on site.
• Keep travel and mobilization logistics as their own row rather than folding it into 'confirm dispatch.' The map's comment is specific that transfer (CTV or helicopter, weather-dependent), accommodation and the return leg are booked together, because a mobilization that gets someone to the harbour but not onto the transfer vessel isn't a mobilization at all.
• Don't skip the results-acceptable decision before demobilizing. The comment is direct: a marginal reading is not a pass, and a technician should board the return transfer with the tools they arrived with, not an open item that becomes someone else's problem on the next visit — which, for an offshore site, could be weeks away.

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