Carl Lafferty

After moving to Aberdeen from South London, Carl started his offshore career some 16 years ago as a Trainee Survey Engineer  for a small marine consultancy.

Carl then went on to work offshore in the role of Survey Party Chief on various positioning and construction projects across the globe.

In 2013 Carl decided a career in project management was where his expertise would be best utilised. Accepting a role as Project Manager, at the world’s leading geodata specialist Fugro, and quickly found himself supporting energy industry giants Shell, BP and Total for their positioning, construction and ROV operations.

After 7 years of project management, an opportunity arose to grow his management and leadership skills in the role of Project Delivery Manager where he was directly responsible for supporting 5 project managers and 2 project surveyors in the day to day success of the positioning and construction support service line.

Some of Carls career highlights include in the world’s first remote FPSO heading control operation and the provision of survey services for the installation of the first turbine for the Kincardine floating offshore windfarm.

Today Carl is the Survey and Positioning Manager for First Marine Solutions.  Responsible for execution his business strategy and leading a team of support staff to undertake a range of survey, positioning and construction operations both on and offshore.