Project Surveyor

The Technical Supervisor – Survey (Project Surveyor) is responsible for defining, maintaining and supporting the subsea surveying activities of the Company to support the delivery of best-in-class crew and fleet performance.

Main Responsibilities:

• Provides day-to-day support to field crew including:
• Offering expert-level assistance for Ocean Bottom Nodes (deployed in all water depths by ROVs and AUVs) in the domain of subsea positioning.
• Monitoring of system failure rates and causes, associated downtime and performance statistics including issue tracking with suppliers.
• Ensuring field crews have access to necessary equipment and stock levels via the Supply Chain and Operations teams.
• Arranging relevant field engineer and third-party maintenance visits to the vessels.
• Also assisting towed streamer or source seismic vessels as required, and as requested by the Technical Manager – Survey and Navigation.
• Maintains frequent communication with fleet Chief Surveyors using all appropriate methods.
• Identifies opportunities to improve efficiency and data quality for offshore operations.
• Ensures company assets and inventory are maintained and tracked according to company policy.
• Stays up to date with advances in equipment and technology and makes proactive suggestions to improve positioning services.
• Provides support to commercial teams including tender review, suggestions for technical exceptions, departmental contributions to bid replies, and supporting bid submissions, as necessary.
• Provides operational support at all stages of the project life cycle, including post-award activities, vessel, and job mobilization, supervising acquisition, monitoring survey trends, project closeout, demobilization and lessons learned for continuous improvement.
• Assists in the planning of departmental tasks in shipyards. Attendance at some shipyards is expected along with other team members depending on the scope of work.
• Contributes to near-term innovation initiatives, as well as some involvement with R&D projects.
• EHSQ:
• Is responsible for delivering a Quality service to all internal and external customers.
• Ensures compliance of the PXGEO Management System within their own team

Supervision of Personnel: No direct reports, but collaboration with field engineers, and coaching field crews is expected.

Internal Relations:Daily contact with Chief Surveyors. Close coordination with Project Managers and other support departments.

External Relations:Communicate with clients on navigation and positioning issues in support of sales and operations. Liaison with vendors and third-party service providers.

Requirements

• Detailed knowledge of, and extensive experience with, surface and subsea positioning operations and equipment. Familiarity with seismic operations is beneficial.
• At least degree level in a suitable surveying, or related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Good working knowledge of Navigation and positioning systems (Integrated Navigation Systems, GNSS, Acoustic positioning, Inertial Navigation Systems, Hydrography equipment, Motion sensors, etc...).
• Certification to board vessels offshore. 

Other Requirements:

• Commitment to Company’s environmental agenda.
• Flexibility to travel domestically and internationally, sometimes at short notice.
• Visits to vessels, mainly dockside but occasionally at sea.