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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

Own how Scout is tested, lead its sea trials, demonstrations and customer deployments, and build the field team that runs them.

Scout deploys for scientists, survey companies and offshore operators in the UK and overseas, from single-boat trials to several Scouts working together as a swarm. You will plan and run those operations, lead demonstrations for customers and partners, and be the person customers rely on in the field. You will also own how every Scout is tested, from local sea tests and accelerated testing to post-production checks before a boat ships, and your results will set engineering's priorities. You will set the standard for field safety and hire the field engineering team as we grow. Your background could be in operations or in engineering.

What you will do

• 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.

What you will bring

• 15+ years in sea trials, offshore operations, test and evaluation or field engineering.
• A track record of organising large trials or demonstrations with customers and partners.
• Experience writing and running test plans for equipment used at sea.
• Long-standing customer relationships, and the judgement to represent the company on trials and at exercises.
• Experience building and leading field teams.
• A record of running safe operations and building a safety culture.
• Time on the water (sailing, diving, commercial boats or the navy) and powerboat qualifications, or willingness to get them. We pay for training.

Southampton. On site. Full time. Competitive salary. Travel.