Senior Surveyor

UTEC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

UTEC, Acteon's Geo-services unit, seeks a Senior Surveyor for offshore US operations. The role represents UTEC on watch, reporting to the Party Chief, ensuring safe, efficient, timely execution and QA of the project.

Education in Geomatics/Surveying is required, with 24 months experience and offshore days. The position involves supervision, data handling, and client liaison on a marine vessel.

Qualifications

• Education in Geomatics, Surveying Science.
• Nominally 24 months experience, including offshore days as Surveyor Grade I.
• Relevant industry, military, or academic survey experience.

Responsibilities

• Supervise survey operations ensuring safe practices and contractual compliance.
• Manage mobilisation and demobilisation activities with safety of personnel/assets.
• Ensure systems comply with contract, procedures, and company standards.
• Oversee data collection, QC, and distribution per project procedures.
• Advise on deviation via Change Procedure and document it.
• Prepare concise operational/field reports per client specs.
• Complete final reporting and data transfer per procedures.
• Communicate with client and onshore representatives.
• Ensure offshore team understands roles and responsibilities.
• Conduct performance reviews and provide feedback to supervisors.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Geomatics

Surveying

Education

Education in Geomatics, Surveying Science

Job description

From seabed to surface, Acteon develops solutions to the energy industry's most complex problems. We harness data, engineering knowledge and operational expertise to efficiently design, install, maintain, extend the life of, and decommission offshore energy assets to ensure they deliver maximum economic value. Using the latest technology, we gather and analyse hard-to-reach data in the most challenging environments. We partner with customers to apply it to their specific needs and challenges and devise tailored plans to help them safely and responsibly accelerate projects and reduce the total cost of operations. This allows our customers to focus on enhancing their core operations, growing sustainably and profitably and, ultimately, delivering the energy the world needs.

UTEC, Acteon's Geo-services business line, harnesses data to optimise designs, save time and maximise your project's economic value by providing a holistic understanding of the marine environment. Our insights underpin customers' decision-making from design to asset life extension, ensuring every decision delivers.

The Senior Surveyor for the Offshoe United States is UTEC's senior representative on a watch reporting to Party Chief or senior representative on vessel and must ensure that all work is conducted in the best interests of UTEC and the Client. He/She must thoroughly understand work specifications, project requirements and client objectives, and is responsible for the safe, efficient and timely execution of, as well as Quality Assurance for the project.

Duties:

• Supervise survey operations ensuring safe working practices at all times and with due regard to contractual requirements, scope of work, procedures and regulations.
• Manage mobilisation and demobilisation activities with regard to safety of personnel and assets.
• Ensure all systems are functioning in compliance with contractual requirements, project procedures and company procedures to effectively conduct the scope of work.
• Ensure collection, collation, QC and distribution of all survey data relating to the scope of work as per project procedures and company procedures.
• Advise onshore management, company and client representatives when deviation from the approved procedure is necessary and record through the Management of Change Procedure.
• Compile operational / field reporting in a concise manner and in accordance with project procedures, client specifications and company procedures.
• Complete final reporting and data transfer / backup in accordance with accordance with project procedures, client specifications and company procedures.
• Effectively communicate with client representatives and company representatives onshore.
• Ensure all personnel in the offshore team understand their roles and responsibilities.
• Conduct personnel performance reviews/appraisals for your direct reports and provide specific performance data/feedback to supervisors of non-direct reports assigned to your projects.
• Perform other duties or tasks as assigned.

Required:

• Education in Geomatics, Surveying Science.
• Relevant industry experience or military/academic experience in survey related discipline.
• Nominally 24 months experience, including 200 operational days offshore as a Surveyor Grade I.