Senior Geophysical Engineer

Senior Geophysical Engineer

Base Location: Glasgow or London
Contract Length: 12 Months
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Working Pattern: Monday–Friday | Hybrid Working (Minimum 2 office days per week)
Sector: Offshore Wind / Renewable Energy
Main Purpose of Job
The Senior Geophysical Engineer role is to support the successful delivery of offshore geophysical surveys and geohazard management on the clients and European operational offshore windfarms.
The Senior Geophysical Engineer role sits in the Ground Engineering Team within the Site Engineering Department and reports to the Geophysical Lead. The Senior Geophysical Engineer will work with the Operation and
Maintenance (O&M) team to ensure survey data and deliverables meet the O&M objectives.
Key Tasks
As a Senior Geophysical Engineer, tasks will include but not be limited to:
• Manage site investigation activities from a geophysical engineering perspective across the O&M offshore project portfolio.
• Overall responsibility for the successful delivery of geophysical surveys, in some cases, including survey management. Regularly make important judgements, decisions and recommendations to ensure the Campaigns meet the strict programme and are delivered to specification and budget.
• Identify where consultant/Owner’s Engineer support is required, define the scope of the support, and support and lead the technical and contractual tendering process.
• Manage the Owner’s Engineer who perform the survey management, offshore client representation and/or data QC.
• Support and lead the development of survey and survey management strategy. This shall include survey duration and cost estimates.
• Provide technical support and advice on survey and equipment types to be used for all survey campaigns across the business. This shall also require an understanding of the specific project objectives, strategies and commercial agreements to ensure that cost effective technically sound solutions that achieve project objectives are identified.
• Develop geophysical survey scopes of work.
• Support and lead the tendering and contractual negotiations for geophysical surveys ensuring appropriate risk management.
• Ensure that O&M related seabed and sub-seabed geo and contractual risks on projects are identified and mitigated. This shall include but not be limited to O&M activities related to cables, scour, scour protection, turbine maintenance and major corrective works.
• Ensure compliance with industry guidelines and best practice, and awareness of suppliers and latest developments in technology, including assessment of suitability of new technology to support O&M projects (identifying potential to reduce cost and risk, or improve safety).
• Support the delivery of multi-contract packages within time, to budget and to a high quality following the best industry practice and observing the maximum respect for health, safety and the environment to ensure regulatory and legal compliance.
• Ensure lessons learned regarding offshore geophysics are captured, shared and solutions applied across the different projects through modification of documents, procedures and survey strategies.
• Support the development, maintenance and modification of geophysical related standard documentation and procedures to ensure optimised geophysical site investigations, with particular focus on operational and maintenance activities.
• Identify opportunities for improvements and innovation in the way the business acquires, manages, interrogates, interprets and uses geophysical data for the company’s operational and maintenance activities.
• Support innovation projects on behalf of the company. You will engage with the steering committee on those projects and, based on the project pipeline, ensure the best interests of the company are kept as priority. The requirement to perform these tasks will vary depending on business, project and team needs.
Key Criteria
To be successful in a role you will need to demonstrate the majority of the requirements below. Where a candidate does not meet all of the listed requirements but shows strength in key areas, they will be considered for the position:
• Educated to degree level in a relevant geophysical, geological or highly relevant discipline.
• Excellent experience in a variety of geophysical survey methods, including offshore acquisition, that are relevant to offshore wind farm development, with particular focus on geophysical methods relevant for O&M surveys, (e.g. multi-beam echosounder (MBES) and side scan sonar (SSS)).
• Excellent experience in the processing and interpretation of geophysical datasets, with particular focus on
geophysical methods relevant for O&M surveys, (e.g. MBES and SSS).
• Excellent experience of planning, managing and executing offshore geophysical site investigations for large scale projects with multiple vessel survey campaigns, with particular focus on geophysical methods relevant for O&M surveys.
• Experience in cable/pipeline/asset inspection surveys and/or asset burial surveys.
• Experience of project management and budget control.
• Knowledge of and / or experience engaging with the different stakeholders of an operational offshore wind farm and devising geophysical strategies to supports these.
• Experience in balancing technical, commercial and programme requirements to ensure that project objectives are achieved.
• Experience with geophysical software tools, particularly those relevant for O&M survey data, (e.g. SonarWiz, Caris and GIS).
• Experience in influencing and developing key project and business decisions.
• Experience supporting global teams and decision-making processes to achieve project objectives under challenging timelines and within a budget.
• Experience communicating effectively and influencing decision making within a diverse team of different expertise and experiences to achieve results.
• Pro-active and diligent approach. Innovative and creative thinker. Problem solver.
• Excellent knowledge of industry codes and standards and offshore regulations.
• Experience in dealing with health, safety and environmental legislation associated with site investigation and offshore operational projects.
• Excellent ability in document writing in English and formatting, and excellent ability to communicate complex problems in a simple manner to a variety of backgrounds.
• IT literate with the ability to effectively operate MS Office systems and the willingness to learn other IT based project management software.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment. The following aspects are considered desirable for this role:
• Experience of tendering and commercial aspects of geophysical surveys.
• Experience in the acquisition and application of a variety of geophysical methods for offshore wind farms.
• Experience of ground model development using geophysical datasets.
• Experience in the design, management, acquisition and QC of magnetometer and UXO survey.
• Chartered, or working towards chartered status (or relevant equivalent) with a relevant institution.
Key Interfaces
O&M, ground engineering and suppliers.
If you are an experienced geophysical professional with offshore wind experience and are interested in contributing to major renewable energy projects, we would like to hear from you.