Riding squads · Onboard technical deployment
Riding Squads: Onboard Technical Teams for Maintenance, Modification & Project Execution
RAM mobilises technical personnel and complete teams onto the vessel itself, for defined maintenance, modification and installation assignments — with rotation and accommodation aboard where the assignment requires it.
OnboardRotationalTechnicalProject-based
When a riding squad fits the workfront
Some technical work cannot come ashore. The scope sits on the vessel, so the crew goes to the vessel.
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Onboard workfront
Technical personnel are deployed directly to the vessel, where the work front is.
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Defined assignment
The team enters for a specific technical scope or work package, not open-ended cover.
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Rotational deployment
Personnel can be organised around assignment-specific rotation and onboard logistics.
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Vessel & client interfaces
The working model is aligned with the vessel organisation and agreed responsibilities.
Two ways we work
Model 01
Workforce Solutions
Your vessel. Your supervision. Our people.
- Directs execution
- Your organisation
- RAM supplies
- Selected technical personnel, with employment, documentation and mobilisation
- When it fits
- You run the onboard programme and need qualified capacity against it
Model 02
Technical Subcontracting
A defined scope. A RAM-coordinated team.
- Directs execution
- RAM, around the agreed deliverables
- RAM supplies
- The team, onboard foremen and coordination against the agreed scope and interfaces
- When it fits
- The requirement is a package of work rather than additional hands
Onboard technical capabilities
No.CapabilityScope
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Onboard mechanical fitting
Mechanical fitters working on the vessel, on the equipment and systems inside the agreed scope.
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Pipe & flange dismantling and installation
Dismantling, fitting and reinstatement of pipe runs and flanged connections aboard.
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Onboard foremen & team coordination
RAM foremen coordinating the team on the vessel and reporting into the client’s organisation.
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Rotational onboard mobilisation
Crews organised around assignment rotation, travel and accommodation aboard where required.
Scope beyond this register is agreed per assignment, against what the vessel and the work actually require.
Real RAM onboard experience
Records of the assignments as RAM delivered them.
Assignment record
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Allseas Solitaire
Netherlands · Offshore pipelay vessel
- Assignment
- Onboard technical assignment
- Environment
- Onboard, alongside
- Deployment
- Rotational, with accommodation aboard
- Status
- Assignment executed by RAM
RAM was engaged on an onboard technical assignment aboard Allseas Solitaire in the Netherlands, on a rotational arrangement with accommodation aboard.
Assignment record
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Icon of the Seas
Finland & Spain · Cruise vessel newbuild
- Assignment
- Interior and mechanical works
- Environment
- Onboard, newbuild
- Locations
- Meyer Turku, Finland · Cádiz, Spain
- Programme
- Three months in Turku, then four weeks in Cádiz
- Phase
- Construction and sea-trial support
- RAM team
- 40 technicians
RAM deployed a 40-person technical team during the construction of Icon of the Seas, carrying out mechanical and interior outfitting works including bathrooms, sanitary areas, stair assemblies and associated interior installation works. The team worked for three months at Meyer Turku in Finland and continued for four weeks in Cádiz during the vessel’s sea-trial phase.
Before we mobilise
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Vessel & workfront
Which vessel, where it will be, and where on board the work sits.
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Scope & responsibility
What is to be executed, and who directs it.
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Personnel & documentation
People selected against the scope, with the documentation the assignment requires.
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Mobilisation & onboard interfaces
Travel, access and the working interface with the vessel organisation.
Tell us about the vessel and the workfront
Which vessel, where it will be, and what has to be executed on board.
Vessel
Type and where it will be
Location
Port, yard or route
Schedule
Window and duration
Scope
Work and interfaces
