Specialist Engineer - Survey

耐克森中国; Nantes; Sur place; EUR 65 000 - 100 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Nexans Nantes is seeking a Specialist Engineer - Survey to join the PWR Transmission group. Located in Nantes, France, you will work with a team of engineers to plan, execute and document marine survey activities for offshore cable projects.

You should bring substantial offshore survey experience, knowledge of geophysical/geotechnical methods, ROVs, and survey tools, plus strong collaboration with subcontractors and internal teams.

Qualifications

• Preferable BSc or MSc degree in Hydrographic surveying, Geophysics, Geology, Geomatics or similar.
• Long experience can substitute formal education.
• Over 10 years of relevant offshore or subsea survey operations experience.
• Knowledge of geophysical/geotechnical surveys, ROV and survey equipment.

Responsabilités

• Evaluate survey proposals with subcontractors and specify equipment/personnel for installation vessels.
• Provide survey input to procedures, plans, analyses and calculations.
• Develop technical solutions related to marine survey for cable laying and protection.
• Participate in QA and HSE activities within the department and projects.

Description du poste

Onboarding You To The Company

At Nexans, our global vision is to electrify the future. In our business group ‘PWR Transmission’ this means designing and fabrication the worlds’ best cable systems. We deliver EPCI turnkey projects all over the world. We have the best tools, equipment and people with competence and skillset to engineer, manufacture and install cable systems.

Job Description

Specialist Engineer - Survey

Posting Start Date: 8/5/26

Technical

France

Nexans France-Nantes

Full Time

Experienced - over 5 years

ID: 79673

Specialist Engineer - Survey

Onboarding You To The Company

At Nexans, our global vision is to electrify the future. In our business group ‘PWR Transmission’ this means designing and fabrication the worlds’ best cable systems. We deliver EPCI turnkey projects all over the world. We have the best tools, equipment and people with competence and skillset to engineer, manufacture and install cable systems.

Welcoming you to the team

Located in Norway, France and US, the team consists of more than 60 highly competent and diverse members. Due to the unique engineering skills of our team, we are able to plan and execute marine and land cable installation projects anywhere in the world. We are able to overcome environmental constraints and client requirements with our unique engineering expertise. This time our team is expanding, so we are looking for a new colleague. The workplace is in Nantes, France, and you will be reporting to the Team Lead – Survey.

Getting a flying start

To succeed as the Specialist Engineer-Survey, you need experience in the survey, energy, maritime, offshore, oil&gas or marine construction fields. The SOW of our projects will require you to have knowledge in geophysical and geotechnical surveys, ROV and survey equipment.

It is expected that you will have a good knowledge and network within the offshore survey industry, that will be utilized to keep Nexans in front when it comes to technology and methods with the survey discipline.

Working closely with subcontractors, you will first evaluate survey proposals and then specify survey equipment/personnel needed for our own installation vessels and subcontracted vessels. This will be based on project requirements and frame agreements with the survey and ROV subcontractors.

You will provide survey input to procedures, plans, analyses, calculations and other documentation. You will be an active participant in developing technical solutions and methods related to the survey aspect of marine cable laying and subsea cable protection in collaboration with other Marine disciplines. On top of that, you will participate in QA and HSE activities internally in the department and in projects.

Your starting point when you join

Preferable BSc or MSc degree in the area of Hydrographic surveying, Geophysics, Geology, Geomatics or similar. Long experience can substitute formal education.

Over 10 years of relevant experience from offshore or subsea operations. Typical background as a project surveyor, party chief, survey manager & online surveyor

Advantageous Knowledge For Your Role, But Not a Requirement

• Software
  • EIVA suite
  • Kingdom or SonarWiz
  • ArcGIS / QGIS
• Operations
  • Route surveys
    • UXO, MBES, SBP & SSS in particular.
  • Cable laying operations
  • Subsea cable protection (Jetting, Trenching, SRI etc)

In this role the likelihood of succeeding will increase if you are used to work structured and accurate when writing technical documentation/procedures.

Nexans works in teams based on project execution, so being self-driven and being able to take charge of one's own tasks are of the utmost importance.

Fluent in English – oral and written. Norwegian is a plus.

Your personal values are aligned with those of Nexans: Pioneer, Dedicated, United.

Our growth culture

At the individual level our growth‑culture is built on trust and collaboration. We wish to welcome you as a valuable member of our team. To enable impact, we believe in freedom and autonomy at the individual level at same time as we encourage knowledge sharing, team‑work mentality and can‑do attitude amongst our team members.