Survey Performance Lead

Ocean Infinity; Southampton; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocean Infinity is seeking a Survey Performance Lead to drive operational performance governance across our survey operations. You will own procedures, competency governance, and management of change, ensuring safe, repeatable delivery and high-quality outcomes.

You will lead performance reporting, lessons learned, and continuous improvement, coordinating with Survey Operations, Technical Authority, Crewing, Training, and vessel teams to optimise delivery and risk management.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in offshore or remote survey operations.
• Experience governing procedures, competency frameworks and QA.
• Ability to use performance data and audit outcomes to drive improvement.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Commitment to HSSE, quality, compliance and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Assess project performance against procedures and controls to ensure compliance.
• Define and maintain the Survey KPI framework and improvements.
• Coordinate assurance activities, audits, and quality performance.
• Govern lessons learned and embed improvements into controlled changes.
• Act as governance interface between Survey Ops and support functions.
• Promote discipline, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

Skills

Offshore survey operations

Governance & compliance

Performance measurement

Stakeholder management

Data management

Change management

Risk management

Communication

Continuous improvement

Job description

At Ocean Infinity, we're using technology to transform operations at sea, making them safer, more efficient, and more sustainable.

We're a team of innovators, problem-solvers, and challengers who believe there is always a better way. If you're ambitious, collaborative, and excited by the opportunity to create meaningful change, we'd love to hear from you.

Join us and help shape the future.

The Survey Performance Lead is accountable for how survey operations are performed, governed, measured, and improved. The role owns operational procedures, competency framework governance, operational assurance, Management of Change governance, performance reporting, lessons learned, and continuous improvement across the Survey function. It supports the three-pillar Survey leadership model by maintaining the operational performance system required for safe, consistent, and repeatable delivery. The Operational Lead Survey remains accountable for client delivery, business outcomes, workforce leadership, resource utilisation, and project execution performance. The Survey Technical Authority remains accountable for technical standards, technical baselines, methodologies, equipment standards, technical assurance, and technical risk acceptance.

Primary accountability: Operational Performance Governance

• Assess project performance and issues against survey operational procedures, work instructions, competency standards, performance requirements, and process controls to ensure they are being implemented and followed during operations
• Define and maintain the Survey operational KPI framework, including procedure compliance, competency compliance, audit finding closure, MOC closure, training effectiveness, lessons learned implementation, and continuous improvement benefits realised.
• Coordinate operational assurance, audit readiness, audit finding closure, procedure compliance reviews, and quality management performance.
• Govern the lessons learned process by ensuring operational feedback, recurring issues, non-conformances, incidents, and assurance findings are captured, assessed, prioritised, assigned, tracked, and embedded into controlled improvements.
• Ensure changes to procedures, competency standards, operational controls, and performance requirements are assessed, approved, communicated, and embedded through controlled Management of Change.
• Act as the operational governance interface between Survey Operations, Survey Technical Authority, Crewing, Training, Project Delivery, ROC leadership, vessel teams, and support functions.
• Promote operational discipline, procedural compliance, competence, knowledge sharing, accountability, and continuous improvement across the Survey function.

Requirements

• Significant experience in offshore, remote, or technology-enabled survey operations, with strong understanding of survey acquisition workflows, ROC support models, operational controls, assurance processes, data management, and cross-functional delivery environments.
• Proven capability to govern operational procedures, competency frameworks, process controls, shift handovers, Management of Change, deviation reporting, quality assurance, operational records, and performance management within a structured management system.
• Ability to use performance data, audit outcomes, non-conformances, lessons learned, competency records, and field feedback to identify trends, address root causes, and drive measurable improvement.
• Sound operational judgement, including the confidence to challenge unclear or non-compliant working practices, intervene where standards are not met, and escalated safety, quality, competency, or delivery risks through appropriate channels.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence Survey Operations, Survey Technical Authority, Crewing, Training, Project Delivery, ROC leadership, vessel teams, and support functions without direct ownership of execution resources.
• Strong commitment to HSSE, quality, compliance, assurance, risk management, incident and near-miss reporting, Stop Work Authority, operational discipline, and continuous improvement.
• Professional, accountable, and structured working style, with the ability to maintain traceability, embed lessons learned, promote knowledge sharing, and support safe, efficient, repeatable, and high-quality project execution.

Benefits

Salary: 80,000 - 90,000 GBP per annum