PROFILTEAM: Human resource and crew management on board ships
THEME 1 : SHIPBUILDING AND LEISURE BOAT-BUILDING
While it is the case that human resource management within companies represents a profession equipped with special methods and tools, the same is not yet true on board ships. There is now a genuine and pressing need for optimum deployment of crews on board naval, merchant, research and passenger vessels. The world of professional sailors and crews demands particular expertise and inter-personal skills. Life on board for the limited number of personnel, sometimes from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, is governed by atypical work patterns.
PROFILTEAM is offering an approach to human resource management which cuts across both the special nature of the roles and related tasks of personnel on board different types of vessels and the capacity of each member of staff to act and inter-relate as part of a crew. By incorporating this approach into software comparable to that already existing within private sector companies, PROFILTEAM acts as a support tool throughout the lifecycle of a ship. It is involved in technical decision-making in ship design, producing ship fitting-out plans, drawing up daily work schedules for crew and staff career management. PROFILTEAM also makes it possible to optimize training by targeting points of weakness in trainees and, in particular, by accurately adjusting valuable but costly simulator training exercises.
Perfected and tested on board scientific vessels and developed for the design and management of naval ships, PROFILTEAM is also aimed at all forms of merchant shipping for which it will be adapted and marketed.
PROFILTEAM is offering an approach to human resource management which cuts across both the special nature of the roles and related tasks of personnel on board different types of vessels and the capacity of each member of staff to act and inter-relate as part of a crew. By incorporating this approach into software comparable to that already existing within private sector companies, PROFILTEAM acts as a support tool throughout the lifecycle of a ship. It is involved in technical decision-making in ship design, producing ship fitting-out plans, drawing up daily work schedules for crew and staff career management. PROFILTEAM also makes it possible to optimize training by targeting points of weakness in trainees and, in particular, by accurately adjusting valuable but costly simulator training exercises.
Perfected and tested on board scientific vessels and developed for the design and management of naval ships, PROFILTEAM is also aimed at all forms of merchant shipping for which it will be adapted and marketed.
PROFILTEAM PROJECT PARTNERS :
Companies:
- DCNS (Services division / Brest and Bagneux), project director, ship designer and prime contractor, develops innovative solutions in the provision of naval services relying on information technologies, particularly in the field of operational readiness,
- PerformanSe, Nantes, designs software tools for human resource management incorporating behavioural and cognitive dimensions for major companies and public services,
- GENAVIR, Brest, operates nine French oceanography research ships for the French research bodies, Ifremer and IRD. On behalf of these bodies, it is responsible for the operational readiness of crews, ships and scientific data acquisition equipment (seismic, sonar, etc.), and of both manned (Nautile) and remotely operated (ROV Victor) undersea vessels.
Research centre :
- Ecole Navale/IRENav, Brest: IRENav possesses multidisciplinary skills in the maritime and shipbuilding sectors and is currently developing several projects relating to maritime safety and decision-making tools.
Contact : - marc.boeuf@pole-mer-bretagne.com
- jean-yves.pradillon@pole-mer-bretagne.com
