Field Operations Lead, Sea Trials & Deployments

Online Oceans; Southampton; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel

Job summary

Online Oceans in Southampton is seeking a senior field operations lead to plan and run sea trials, demonstrations, and customer deployments in the UK and overseas. You’ll manage logistics, organize large-scale trials, and direct a field engineering team to ensure safety and high-quality test results.

You will own testing across the lifecycle of each Scout, convert results into engineering priorities, and serve as the main customer contact during deployments.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in sea trials, offshore operations, test and evaluation or field engineering.
• Experience organising large trials or demonstrations with customers and partners.
• Experience writing and running test plans for equipment used at sea.
• Long-standing customer relationships; able to represent the company on trials.
• Experience building and leading field teams.
• Record of running safe operations and building a safety culture.
• Time on the water and powerboat qualifications, or willingness to get them.

Responsibilities

• Plan and run sea trials, demonstrations and customer deployments in the UK and overseas, from logistics to launch and recovery.
• Organise large trials and demonstrations with customers and partners, including several Scouts working as a swarm.
• Own Scout testing: local sea tests, accelerated testing and post-production tests on every boat before it ships.
• Turn trial and test results into clear reports and priorities for the engineering team.
• Look after customers before, during and after deployments, and be their main contact in the field.
• Own field safety: risk assessments, safe systems of work and small-boat operations.
• Hire, train and lead the field engineering team, and write the procedures it works to.

Skills

Sea trials

Offshore ops

Field engineering

Test plans

Customer relationships

Safety culture

Job description

Online Oceans in Southampton is seeking a senior field operations lead to plan and run sea trials, demonstrations, and customer deployments in the UK and overseas. You’ll manage logistics, organize large-scale trials, and direct a field engineering team to ensure safety and high-quality test results.

You will own testing across the lifecycle of each Scout, convert results into engineering priorities, and serve as the main customer contact during deployments.