Surveyor (US Based)

The OBN Surveyor ensures the proper survey planning, real-time monitoring of surface and subsea positioning integrity, installation and maintenance of positioning sensors, and quality assurance and delivery of positioning data.

Main Responsibilities:

• Advises / assists the immediate supervisor in mobilization and survey planning, survey contract management, crisis management. Reviews and amends the relevant aspects of quality control plan/start-up sheet
• Holds the objective to maximize crew productivity by
• Operating equipment when deploying or recovering nodes.
• Ensuring the accuracy and timely delivery of positioning data and accompanying logs.
• Maintains configuration of equipment, for the department.
• Maintain real-time acquisition compliance with Company-defined technical standards, procedures, and contractual requirements.
• Maintaining the equipment by:
• Implementing maintenance plan based on office recommendations and supplier manuals (troubleshoots, repairs, preventative, predictive & condition-based maintenance)
• Documenting and reporting equipment maintenance in TMM, and other relevant tools
• Monitoring maintenance indicators and set-up corrective actions.
• Requesting for assistance, when necessary, expertise from other departments on board, external intervention, based on technical analysis and specification of needs, through the fault reporting system or the shipyard work list.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in hydrographic surveying, mapping, geodetics, marine engineering, subsea engineering or similar along with:

• Minimum of 1 year experience of deepwater subsea ROV survey operations
• Familiarity with industry standard surface and subsea positioning software such as Starfix, 4DNAV or Navipac, including configuration, operation and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with surface positioning systems including GNSS and AHRS such as Fugro Starfix GNSS and Kongsberg Seapath.
• Familiarity with subsea and ROV positioning systems such as Kongsberg HiPAP, iXBlue PHINS 6000
• Familiarity with systems integration with survey software, sensors and shared systems on ROV and vessel
• Maritime operations and Dynamic Positioning experience
• Advanced computer skills including understanding of wired networks.