Offshore Survey Technician

STR; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

STR is seeking a Survey Technician to support onshore workshop activities and offshore project execution. You will prepare, test, calibrate, and maintain survey and subsea equipment, ensuring data integrity and compliance with industry standards.

You will work across onshore and offshore environments, perform fault finding, diagnostics, and repairs, and assist in mobilisation/demobilisation of survey spreads while maintaining logs and documentation.

Qualifications

• Technical qualification (HNC/HND/Degree) in Electrical, Electronics or Engineering.
• Valid offshore certifications or ability to obtain them (BOSIET/FOET, OGUK/OEUK Medical, CA-EBS, HUET, GWO).
• UK driving license and passport are required.
• Previous offshore experience in Offshore Survey or ROV operations.
• Strong IT literacy and ability to work with survey software and hardware.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, test, calibrate, and maintain survey and subsea equipment onshore.
• Fault-finding, diagnostics, and component-level repairs as needed.
• Maintain calibration logs and asset management records.
• Support equipment mobilisation and demobilisation for offshore projects.
• Configure equipment to project specs, including firmware and interfacing testing.
• Ensure compliance with quality systems and client specifications.
• Assist with inventory control and workshop housekeeping.
• Collaborate with project engineers and offshore supervisors for readiness.
• Be part of the Global Technical Support on-call team.
• Install and operate equipment on vessels/platforms offshore.
• Support real-time data acquisition and troubleshooting offshore.
• Maintain daily technical logs and data quality documentation.

Skills

Fault finding or troubleshooting

IT literacy

Independent worker

Offshore survey operations

Education

HNC/HND/Degree in Electrical/Electronics/Engineering

Tools

Edgetech

onardyne

Exail

Teledyne

Valeport

Kongsberg

R2 Sonic

Innova

Job description

STR is seeking a Survey Technician to support onshore workshop activities and offshore project execution. You will prepare, test, calibrate, and maintain survey and subsea equipment, ensuring data integrity and compliance with industry standards.

You will work across onshore and offshore environments, perform fault finding, diagnostics, and repairs, and assist in mobilisation/demobilisation of survey spreads while maintaining logs and documentation.