Survey Engineer

Acteon-Group; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Acteon Group’s UTEC division seeks a Survey Engineer for offshore and onshore survey operations. The role entails configuring equipment on vessels, calibrations, and ensuring safety, quality, and contractual compliance.

Travel and long hours are expected, with extensive time at sea in challenging environments. Education in electronics/engineering is preferred and prior survey experience is advantageous.

Qualifications

• Education in Electronics / Engineering preferred.
• Relevant industry experience or military/academic experience in survey related discipline.
• Must be team-oriented and able to work with others.
• Ability to achieve results with high accuracy and precision.
• Able to work independently and within teams.
• Experience in Industry Standard Survey Packages preferable.
• Must hold a valid passport enabling travel to company locations.

Responsibilities

• Experience with survey sensors across different operations.
• Interface equipment and sensors through survey vehicles to online systems.
• Understand electronics and wiring symbols; manage IT and networking solutions for onboard survey networks.
• Set up and test data protocols, CCTV/video systems, and video distribution on vessels.
• Create vessel wiring diagrams and setup notes in software.
• Maintain calibration, inventory, and certification of offshore survey equipment.
• Operate online software during survey operations.

Skills

Sensor integration

Electronics basics

Networking

Data protocols

CCTV systems

Vessel wiring and cabling

Survey software operation

Education

Electronics / Engineering degree

Tools

Survey software

Network testing tools

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.

UTEC is looking to add a qualified Survey Engineer to the Offshore team in the United States. The Survey Engineer is responsible for ensuring that all engineering work carried out on site is conducted in the best interests of UTEC and the Client and meets all project safety, contractual and quality requirements. The Survey Engineer shall also ensure that all equipment received to the vessel is configured correctly and calibrations and certification is kept up to date.

This is an both onshore vessel mobilizations and offshore support role and will require a significant amount of time spent on a vessel and may take place in inclement weather and extreme temperatures. Responsibilities may require an adjusted work schedule, long days, and evening/weekend hours to meet deadlines. Extensive travel is required.

Duties:

• Experience of all types of Survey sensors used across a different range of job/operations
• Ability to understand sensor pinout/wiring diagrams, how to interface equipment and sensors through survey vehicles into the online system
• Understanding of basic electronics, demonstrate understanding of commonly used electronic symbols and wiring principles
• Knowledge and understanding of IT and general networking solutions. How to setup a dedicated survey network and interface survey sensors to online
• Good knowledge of different data protocols used with survey sensors, serial 232, 422, 485 protocols, ethernet comms, fibre optic
• Experience of CCTV and video systems. Setting up video distribution on board vessels
• Ability to problem solve and fault find issues with equipment. Demonstrate good problem‑solving practices and show common sense logical thinking to identify problems
• Ability to make up and terminate all types of cabling, using specific tools, for interfacing, antenna cabling, network cabling, serial cabling, video cabling, ROV/survey sensor cabling
• Ability to create vessel wiring diagrams, setup notes in relevant software packages
• Maintain, service, calibrate equipment used in offshore survey operations
• Keep vessel inventories, manifests, equipment certification up to date
• Knowledge of data storage systems
• Knowledge of online software packages, interfacing survey sensors to online systems and testing,
• Ability to perform online and operate software during operations

Required:

• Education in Electronics / Engineering preferred
• Relevant industry experience or military/academic experience in survey related discipline
• Must be team-oriented, possess a positive attitude and work well with others
• Ability to perform tasks and achieve results with a high degree of accuracy and precision
• Ability to work both independently and within teams
• Experience in Industry Standard Survey Packages preferable
• Must hold a valid passport free from status or restrictive conditions that preclude travel to and work in countries where the Company routinely operates

UTEC, part of Acteon Group, is one of the world's largest independent offshore and onshore survey providers. We provide a wide range of survey, positioning and data management services using the most advanced equipment and techniques. The data we generate provides our clients with the information they need to make critical, well informed, business decisions.