Craig is a qualified Master Mariner Class 1 and was formally the General Manager of Adsteam Offshore, a diversified company providing marine vessels and crewing services to the Australian offshore oil and gas industry.

Prior to this he held General Manager, Business Development and Marketing roles with major Australian and international marine companies including Tidewater Marine, Australian Offshore Services (now Farstad) and Brambles Marine Group as well as many years of seagoing experience.

Craig has over thirty years of both senior management and seagoing experience in the maritime industry and is familiar with vessel operations in the oil and gas industry, harbour and ocean towage, landing craft and the larger commercial shipping industry.

Craig’s Professional Development:
•  Leadership
•  Public Speaking & Presentation Skills
•  Advanced Financial Management
•  Negotiation Skills
•  Key Account Management
•  Australian Contract Law (short course)
•  Discrimination & Harassment, Counselling
•  Discipline & Termination

Key skills he brings to the TUCF Team:
•  Strategies & Processes for Profitability
•  Operational Systems Review & Management
•  Establishing Quality Management Systems and Processes (ISO9001 & ISM)
•  Financial Management
•  Analysis & Strategic Planning
•  Business Development – Offshore Markets
•  Project & Budget Management
•  Contract Law
•  Client Management & Industry Networking (Government & Marine Industry Sectors)
•  Negotiation
•  Communication & Liaison
•  Human Resource Management & Performance
•  Industrial Relations and Driving Cultural Change & Strategic Direction

Career highlights and achievements

Whilst National Projects and Business Development Manager for Adsteam Australia, Craig investigated and exploited opportunities for organic growth through the application of a high level of knowledge of the marine service business, vessel crewing & management, relationship building within the Government sector and successful tendering.

At this time he won the AMSA contract to provide seven of nine regions for emergency towage services and significantly grew non towage offshore & project business – successfully optimising productivity of vessels.

Craig led a review and managed procedural compliance with OHS & E statutory regulations as part of the TCEP Project for Woodside and the Conoco Phillips Bayu Undan Pipelay Project in the Timor Sea.

As the General Manager for Adsteam Offshore, Craig oversaw implementation and validation of quality assurance systems; ISO9001/2000 and ISM, such quality assured systems are fundamental to TUCF management and operations.

As Marketing Manager for Adsteam Oceans & Terminals, Craig won tenders and long term towing contracts at two major new LNG Terminals in Australia and the UK.

Responsible for financial management, reporting, budgeting, operations management, industrial relations, OHS&E, business development and formulation & implementation of a strategic direction, he secured a more advantageous market position for this company through introduction to the offshore market.

Craig successfully tendered for two major port towing contracts; Gunns and Port of Portland.

He utilised extensive contacts within the industry to access new markets and win con-tracts to charter vessels in offshore markets.

During this period Craig negotiated and finalised a new 3 – year Enterprise Bargaining Agreement with all maritime employees and unions.

Now with TUCF, Craig was responsible for setting up and running Petra Marine Australia, a company providing large offshore support vessels to the Australian and New Zealand markets.

Seagoing & Maritime Training - Australian and International Positions

From 1971 to 1982 Craig completed his Cadetship with ASP and the Master Class 1 Certificate. Subsequently he gained experience in; bulk carriers, container ships, tankers, cargo ships, offshore support vessels, offshore construction projects, dynamically positioned drill ships; through companies including Associated Steam Ships, Bank Line, ANL, J Ray Mc Dermott, Lombardo Marine. Projects included pipelay, platform and SBM installation and offshore towage.