Program Overview

GG6582: Project Management for Offshore projects

Course Fact File

• Code: GG6582
• Teaching Mode: Part-Time
• Fees: Skillnet Course Fee: €500
• Closing Date: September 2025
• Credits: 5
• Start Date: October 2025

Outline

• Introduction to Offshore Project Management
• Project lifecycles in offshore infrastructure (concept, design, construction, operation, decommissioning)
• Stakeholders and governance in offshore projects (developers, regulators, contractors, communities)
• Project planning and scheduling (Gantt charts, milestones, critical path)
• Risk management in offshore environments (weather, logistics, environmental, financial)
• Budgeting and cost control for offshore projects
• Procurement and contract management (EPC, O&M, supply chain considerations)
• Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) management in offshore operations
• Communication and reporting in multidisciplinary teams
• Regulatory and permitting frameworks for offshore projects (national and EU context)
• Tools and software for project management (e.g., MS Project or ProjectLibre, GIS integration)
• Case studies of offshore wind and marine infrastructure projects
• Emerging challenges and innovations in offshore project delivery

Additional Teaching Mode Information

• 1 x 4hr long kick off lecture on UCC campus
• 10 x 2hr hour long online lectures

Practicalities

• Report: 100 Marks
  • 2000 words
  • Report on a offshore wind project

Lecturer

• Tom Murphy, Statkraft/UCC

Requirements

• Applications will also be considered from graduates in other disciplines, including those in the Arts or Social Sciences, who have a demonstrable interest and/or experience in coastal and marine management, and who can offer sufficient numerical abilities.
• A primary degree (180 credits or equivalent), in a cognate area, plus at least 2 years' experience in a relevant maritime industry (applied) as approved by the module coordinator on a case by case basis under Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).

Fees and Costs

• Skillnet Funding
  • Skillnet is dedicated to fostering skills and expertise in the field of green technology, is partnering with UCC on the Project Management for Offshore projects micro-credential to fund part of the course fee for eligible participants.
  • Skillnet Course Fee: €500
• ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
  • Trainees must be based in the Republic of Ireland to be eligible.
  • Trainees must be employed within private enterprise/self-employed.
• Key requirements regarding the eligibility of businesses to participate in funding:
  • Companies must be from private enterprise based in the Republic of Ireland.
  • Skillnet Ireland funding is not available to public sector bodies or organisations that are publicly funded such as community-based not-for-profit companies or charities.
  • Commercial semi-state companies are eligible providing that income contributed to a Network is not sourced from the public purse.
  • Sole traders are eligible as Companies.
• If you have further queries on funding please contact [insert contact information]
• If you are not eligible for funding the course fee is €900.