Looking Beyond the Hurdles With Mashona Marsh, Facility Manager for Subsea 7

Mashona Marsh is the Facility Manager for Subsea 7, a global leader in the delivery of offshore projects and services for the energy industry. Mashona has been in the facilities management industry for over 28 years, building his strengths in strategic planning, communication, facility and human resource modeling, and resource coordination. 

Before joining Subsea 7 in 2001, Mashona worked in facility services at Mercer and was a Site Manager for Alliance Strategic Business Services. He attended the University of Nebraska at Omaha and won the gold medal for 110m high hurdles at the 1975 Nebraska State High School Track and Field Championships, setting the record at 13.8 seconds.

In this episode…

How do the best facilities managers solve the most difficult problems? 

As a record-breaking athlete-turned-facilities manager, Mashona Marsh has lived through some challenging obstacles. His biggest piece of advice for working through them? Look beyond the hurdles. There's often a fear of failure when you come face-to-face with a big task, but when you keep your goals at the forefront, you'll push through whatever comes your way.

In this episode of Watching Paint Dry, Greg Owens is joined by Mashona Marsh, Facility Manager for Subsea 7, to discuss the challenges of the industry and how to overcome them. Mashona shares how the pandemic affected his work, advice for achieving your loftiest goals, and how being thoughtful and composed can help you become the facilities manager you've always dreamed of. Stay tuned!