Motive Offshore Group fuels growth strategy with multiple appointments across specialist Rentals Team

25 APRIL 2022

The past eight months have witnessed five new appointments across the Motive Rentals Team, helping continue to drive growth and revenue across the Group.

Reinforcing its position as a leading energy industry specialist, Motive Offshore Group today offers a wholly integrated end-to-end service offering covering equipment rental, design and fabrication, and certification and inspection services.

With ever-increasing deployments and equipment utilisation, 2022 has already been a ground-breaking year for Motive Rentals, its continued success supported by the appointment of 5 additional members.

All joining within the past eight months, together the team brings a combined industry experience of 100 years and has already made their mark, supporting new initiatives across the Rentals division and beyond, enabling delivery of an ‘always on’ 24/7/365 approach to client support.

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BACK ROW (L-R): Kevin Sharp - Richard Findlay - Lisa Cowie - Bruce Stuart - David Leith - Dawn Morrison - Kris Hartshorn
FRONT ROW (L-R): David Webster - Sonny Swann - Graeme Sutherland - Richard Fraser - Rory Cameron

Meet Motive Rentals

Richard Findlay joined the team as Rentals Equipment Coordinator, keeping the scheduling, planning, and forecasting of equipment on track for all upcoming operations.

Kevin Sharp, our Rentals Crewing Manager, has responsibility for project crewing, offshore field personnel, clients, and the operations team throughout mobilisation and crew changes.

Working closely with Kevin, Dawn Morrison is our Rentals Personnel Logistics Coordinator, ensuring our people are smoothly mobilised and demobilised worldwide.

Lisa Cowie, Rentals Document Controller, is responsible for managing all aspects of documentation produced within the Rentals Division, ensuring quality standards and procedures are met across all projects.

Kris Hartshorn joined the team as Rentals Project Engineer with responsibilities that include the planning, organisation, and delivery of projects, from concept through to final Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT).

Led by an experienced and long-serving Rentals Management Team comprising David Leith (Rentals Division Manager), Bruce Stuart (Rental Fleet Manager), and Ross Whittingham (Rentals Division Managing Director), Motive is delighted to have such a high calibre Rentals team. This wealth of experience is key as we continue to fulfil our growth ambitions and deliver best-in-class levels of support for our clients across the globe.

From the outset Motive has been about people and has committed to only employing the best - the appointment of Lisa, Dawn, Kris, Richard, and Kevin underpins this.

Their expertise in their respective fields, combined experience as a team, and everyday enthusiasm have proven invaluable in driving the Rentals Division operation worldwide.

As the company continues to grow, we are ideally structured to maintain our unsurpassable levels of service, and we are proud to welcome the talented new team into the Motive Family.

- David Leith, Rentals Division Manager

Continual investment in our People, Planet, and Products

The host of specialist appointments comes at a significant time of expansion for Motive Offshore Group, which recently opened its first Renewables base in the APAC region, as the company continues to develop its equipment and service offerings.

Part of this commitment to accelerate growth includes investing in and developing our people, advancing intelligent monitoring technologies across our equipment for enhanced safety and efficiency benefits, and developing clean energy solutions to address global sustainability challenges.

Motive Rentals supplies worldwide rental solutions for the back-deck, cable lay and subsea operations, and quayside transpooling. Our extensive range of equipment includes high-capacity winches and umbilical deployment equipment, power supply, and monitoring and testing equipment, with our multi-disciplined Personnel team available to support projects both on and offshore.