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Party Chief / Surveyor 12936 22 February 2012 4 weeks
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Employment Type: Temporary

Start Date: 22 February 2012

Duration: 4 weeks

Required Skills: Previous Starfix.Seis experience essential

Duties: Offshore Baku on an AUV survey

Reference: 12936

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Hydrographic Surveyor 12932 1 March 2012 4 weeks
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Employment Type: Temporary

Start Date: 1 March 2012

Duration: 4 weeks

Required Skills: EIVA NaviPac experience essential

Duties: Offshore UK sector of the North Sea on Dive Support work

Reference: 12932

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Online Surveyor 12928 15 February 2012 2 weeks
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Employment Type: Temporary

Start Date: 15 February 2012

Duration: 2 weeks

Required Skills: QINSy experienced required.

Duties: Offshore UK in the North Sea debris clearance surveys and sidescan sonarmultibeam pipeline inspection by ROTV

Reference: 12928

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Data Processor 12927 15 February 2012 2 weeks
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Employment Type: Temporary

Start Date: 15 February 2012

Duration: 2 weeks

Required Skills: QINSy, Experience Required.

Duties: Offshore UK in the North Sea debris clearance surveys and sidescan sonarmultibeam pipeline inspection by ROTV

Reference: 12927

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Reports Coordinator 12925 31 January 2012 1 week
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Employment Type: Temporary

Start Date: 31 January 2012

Duration: 1 week

Required Skills: Previous Reports Coordinator experience essential

Duties: Offshore UK on a Dive Support project

Reference: 12925

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Latest permanent jobs

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Workshop and Mobilisation Engineer 127 6 February 2012 Permanent
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Employment Type: Permanent

Start Date: 6 February 2012

Duration: Permanent

Required Skills: A minimum 10 years’ experience in the offshore survey industry or related disciplines is preferred. •A degree or equivalent in electrical engineering and or IT. •Preferably to show and indicate personal development in respect of training and courses undertaken to further the individual in electronics, IT, management etc. •Excellent communication & organisational skills, eye for detail, QC etc. •Proactive / common sense approach to projects and problem solving. •Hold (or ability to obtain) current medical & survival certification. •Competent with the MS Office suite – Word, Excel, Powerpoint & Project. •Previous use of an asset management system would be desirable, but training/ familiarisation can be provided.

Duties: Managing and supporting the clients survey and subsea department (and certain operations department) survey equipment – computers, IT, DGPS, radios / communications systems, printers, plotters, cabling etc. Also responsible for maintaining inhouse management system / software and handling dispatch / receipt of equipment in support of project operations. 1.To manage and support all survey & subsea department survey equipment and computer systems. 2.To look after and maintain > £0.5M worth of equipment, based at the Cambridge office. 3.To provide survey & subsea equipment technical support to project teams (onshore and offshore). 4.To liaise with the Procurement department. 5.To manage the dispatch and receipt of Survey & Subsea department equipment. 6.To support, coordinate and play an active role in project mobilisations and demobilisations. 7.To work with other client divisions in survey & subsea equipment / computer systems support. 8.To be the custodian of all survey & subsea department equipment / computer systems.

Reference: 127

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Marine Resource Analyst 126 6 February 2012 Permanent
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Employment Type: Permanent

Start Date: 6 February 2012

Duration: Permanent

Required Skills: The ideal candidate will be an oceanographer who has some survey experience focus on tidal elements of oceanography. Knowledge and experience of ADCP deployment, data retrieval and analysis is considered essential. The applicant should have some knowledge of CFD modelling. Duties: Duties will include but not be limited to: •Site identification from published data, site visits, contacts and other sources, •Specifying, commissioning and overseeing geophysical, geotechnical and tidal velocity (ADCP) measurement survey work on existing and potential sites in UK and Canada. •Geothechical and ADCP survey data validation and analysis, using spreadsheets, Matlab and GIS. •Tidal resource modelling to predict tidal currents from both published and survey data. •Development and maintenance of a GIS database of site information. •In addition to the above, the role will also be responsible for analysing and reporting on the performance data generated by turbines already in situ. •Specifying, supervising and interpreting subcontractor hydrodynamic modelling services for site energy distribution and array layout. •Woking with the financial and engineering functions to develop a comprehensive financial model for new and existing projects. Computer Skills •Advanced experience of Microsoft Office tools, primarily good knowledge of Excel and macro programming. •Knowledge of MATLAB and ArcGIS would be useful but not essential, training can be provided. •Ability to learn and enhance MCT developed prediction models wriietn in Matlab and Excel.

Duties: Our client is recognised as being one of the leading tidal energy technology developers. This role is to support the client in the identification and analysis of possible future sites for individual turbines and tidal turbine arrays. The role includes the specification of marine geophysical and geotechnical survey requirements, acting as the client representative during survey activities, post processing and manipulation of survey data in GIS, spreadsheets and Matlab. The individual will be responsible for the validation of the tidal resource at the proposed development, the outputs of which will be used to justify the financial requirements for the development of the array. The ability to interpret tidal measurement and predict tidal turbine energy capture and thus electrical delivery to the grid is key to the success of the role. In addition, the ability to interface and manage third party contractors preparing hydrodynamic models based on survey results and planning array layouts is critical. The successful application will work within the site development team reporting to the Business Development Director

Reference: 126

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Senior Surveyor / Senior Survey Engineer 124 12 February 2012 Permanent
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Employment Type: Permanent

Start Date: 12 February 2012

Duration: Permanent

Required Skills: Degree level or equivalent qualification / experience in Hydrographic Survey or related disciplines •Offshore experience including rigs and vessels with direct customer involvement •Operational knowledge of LBL/USBL products and systems, product applications and detailed performance parameters Person must be ableto work within the UK and if non European must possess UK work permit if applying for this work

Duties: UK, predominantly office based role. Objective: to increase customer awareness and understanding regarding the detailed capabilities and effective use of the client's systems in core business markets through the provision of technical, sales and offshore operational support, delivery of learning forums, development of technical written material and active participation in industry events, thus gathering valuable feedback for product development requirements and potential business opportunities.

Reference: 124

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Data Processor 119 6 February 2012 Permanent
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Employment Type: Permanent

Start Date: 6 February 2012

Duration: Permanent

Required Skills: • University or College Survey, Cartography or GIS education and/or Industry training in similar. • Possess current offshore medical and survival in-date certification. • Previous experience of offshore survey processing projects involving processing of surface and subsea positioning data, construction survey data and ROV based survey data.. • Fully conversant with industry standards relating to health, safety and the environment.

Duties: Responsibilities: • Assist with the installation of survey equipment and software systems. • Assist with the conduct of calibrations of gyrocompass and pitch/roll sensors for both the survey vessel and the ROV. • Assist with the conduct of health checks of the DGPS systems. • Assist with the conduct of observations of seawater parameters in order to determine the speed of sound in seawater. • Installation ad configuration of data processing systems and hardware. • Networking of data processing systems to online system, printers, plotter and data archiving systems. • Implementation of project geodetic parameters in processing and charting routines. • Verification of project databases and creation of structure files for use online. • Prediction of tidal levels using a combination of harmonic constituents and co-tidal data. • Import or raw survey data from online into processing system. • Implementation of vessel and ROV offsets in processing. • Planning of processing flows. • Processing of data from all survey sensors, both from the ROV and from the vessel, e.g. vessel track based on DGPS, ROV track based on DGPS/USBL/Doppler, dual-head scanning profilers, multi-beam echo sounders, bathy systems, pipe-tracker, events as recorded online, (digital) video review. • Integration and interpolation of survey data by time and by KP. • Review data sets and highlight problems with a given data set and relate those problems to online acquisition techniques where relevant. • Production of digital listings of seabed or pipeline status in relation to the seabed plus events. • Production of industry standard data formats such as UKOOA P5/P6. • Production of Pipeline alignment charts showing plan view, longitudinal profile, cross profiles, pipeline embedment and event panels. • Management of raw and processed data, together with chart revisions. • Safe back-up and archiving of all project survey data. • Act as the data processing team leader as required in the absence of the Party Chief. • Perform Risk Assessments and tool box talks in the course of day-to-day activities as and when required by the Party Chief or Superintendent. • Develop an awareness of the relevant commercial and contractual issues of each project as defined ini such documents as Scope of Work and Tender documents. • Display proficiency and general computer literacy with Microsoft products, e.g. Word and Excel, email and Windows operating systems. • Ensure that all personnel under own supervision follow the QHSE guidelines and requirements as defined in project specific plan or as required by the Vessel Operations Manual. • Attend training courses as required as part of the ongoing development of individual and Company capability. • Adhere to Company safety, health and environmental procedures and policies. • Participate positively in safety meetings, project risk assessments and tool box talks. • Recognise risks and develop mitigation to reduce risk to an acceptable level where possible. • Operate with the vessel permit to work system when required. • Ensure that all personnel under own supervision follow the QHSE guidelines and requirements as defined in project specific plan or as required by the Vessel Operations Manual. • Conduct all activities within the Integrated Management System Policy, Procedures and Work Instructions.

Reference: 119

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Senior Data Processor 118 6 February 2012 Permanent
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Employment Type: Permanent

Start Date: 6 February 2012

Duration: Permanent

Required Skills: •University or College Survey, Cartography or GIS education and/or Industry training in similar. •Possess current offshore medical and survival in-date certification. •Previous experience of offshore survey processing projects involving processing of surface and subsea positioning data, construction survey data and ROV based survey data.. •Fully conversant with industry standards relating to health, safety and the environment.

Duties: This position is based in Aberdeen, UK Responsibilities: •Assist with the installation of survey equipment and software systems. •Assist with the conduct of calibrations of gyrocompass and pitch/roll sensors for both the survey vessel and the ROV. •Assist with the conduct of health checks of the DGPS systems. •Assist with the conduct of observations of seawater parameters in order to determine the speed of sound in seawater. •Installation ad configuration of data processing systems and hardware. •Networking of data processing systems to online system, printers, plotter and data archiving systems. •Implementation of project geodetic parameters in processing and charting routines. •Verification of project databases and creation of structure files for use online. •Prediction of tidal levels using a combination of harmonic constituents and co-tidal data. •Import or raw survey data from online into processing system. •Implementation of vessel and ROV offsets in processing. •Planning of processing flows. •Processing of data from all survey sensors, both from the ROV and from the vessel, e.g. vessel track based on DGPS, ROV track based on DGPS/USBL/Doppler, dual-head scanning profilers, multi-beam echo sounders, bathy systems, pipe-tracker, events as recorded online, (digital) video review. •Integration and interpolation of survey data by time and by KP. •Review data sets and highlight problems with a given data set and relate those problems to online acquisition techniques where relevant. •Production of digital listings of seabed or pipeline status in relation to the seabed plus events. •Production of industry standard data formats such as UKOOA P5/P6. •Production of Pipeline alignment charts showing plan view, longitudinal profile, cross profiles, pipeline embedment and event panels. •Management of raw and processed data, together with chart revisions. •Safe back-up and archiving of all project survey data. •Act as the data processing team leader as required in the absence of the Party Chief. •Perform Risk Assessments and tool box talks in the course of day-to-day activities as and when required by the Party Chief or Superintendent. •Develop an awareness of the relevant commercial and contractual issues of each project as defined ini such documents as Scope of Work and Tender documents. •Display proficiency and general computer literacy with Microsoft products, e.g. Word and Excel, email and Windows operating systems. •Ensure that all personnel under own supervision follow the QHSE guidelines and requirements as defined in project specific plan or as required by the Vessel Operations Manual. •Attend training courses as required as part of the ongoing development of individual and Company capability. • Adhere to Company safety, health and environmental procedures and policies. • Participate positively in safety meetings, project risk assessments and tool box talks. • Recognise risks and develop mitigation to reduce risk to an acceptable level where possible. • Operate with the vessel permit to work system when required. • Ensure that all personnel under own supervision follow the QHSE guidelines and requirements as defined in project specific plan or as required by the Vessel Operations Manual. • Conduct all activities within the Integrated Management System Policy, Procedures and Work Instructions.

Reference: 118

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