30/10/2026
🔧 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗧𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦: 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗹𝘁
From laying pipelines in Aberdeen to the world’s largest crane vessel and now, for the first time, sitting on the other side of the table.
As an engineering manager at TOP, Remmelt has spent nearly 30 years working on the construction and conversion of large offshore vessels. His specialty: making sure the vessel and the “mission equipment”, think cranes and pipelay towers, fit together perfectly. Sounds simple. It isn’t. As Remmelt puts it himself: “Shipyards know how to build a ship, construction companies know how to build a crane. But making sure the two connect seamlessly, that’s what we specialize in.”
One project he still looks back on with pride: Heerema’s Sleipnir, the world’s largest crane vessel. Nearly four years of engineering, 150,000 man-hours before a shipyard was even involved and the result showed it: a vessel that was delivered almost on time, a rare feat for a project of this scale.
After decades in oil & gas, Remmelt also worked on the shipyard side itself — at Damen in Romania, for example — focused on offshore wind: transformer substations, floating foundations, platforms, now continued in further investigations into serial production. New territory, same approach: keep critically asking “why?”, and never separate the technical problem from the people who’ll eventually have to build and install it.
His motto? Stay critical, stay curious. And that’s exactly what makes TOPPERS like Remmelt so valuable to our clients.
