Our client is one of the world’s most respected energy and civil services consultancies. They have a requirement for an Associate/Chief Energy Geoscientist to join their growing team on a permanent basis and to help support their increasing portfolio and workload. This role is located in Epsom, London, Glasgow.
Job Description:
The successful applicant will be a Marine Geoscientist or Marine Geophysicist with a proven track record and greater than ten years post-graduate industry and/or academic experience preferred.
Your day-to-day role may include the following activities:
- Acting as Technical Reviewer for Marine Geoscience, Offshore Ground Modelling and Marine Geophysics related projects.
- Managing, motivating and mentoring junior members of the Marine Geoscience and Geophysics team.
- Acting as bid manager for strategic marine geoscience, geophysics or cables related bids.
- Representing our Client at industry events.
- Developing a network of business contacts to contribute to the growth of the Marine Geoscience technical network.
- Developing and overseeing technical investment tasks and initiatives.
- Mentoring of early career team members in Marine Geoscience workflows.
- A strong academic background with a relevant degree (ideally MSc or equivalent) with geophysics and marine geoscience content.
- Chartered Status with the Geological Society or the Society for Underwater Technology (SUT).
- Ability to act as Technical Reviewer or Technical Lead for Marine Geoscience and Geophysics projects, including, for example, offshore ground models, geophysical interpretations and geophysical survey specifications.
- Project management – experience and understanding of the needs and approaches of geoscience consultancy in the offshore wind, subsea cables and hydrogen storage sectors.
- Proven track record of developing strong relationships with clients, and of leading work planning and commercial management.
- Strong applied background and experience in Marine Geology, Energy Geoscience and/or Geophysics.
- Extensive experience of acting as a Marine Geoscientist or Marine Geoscientist in a related field, such as offshore renewables, offshore geophysical survey, research or O&G.
- Ability to lead and develop marine geoscience and geophysics project teams.
- Proven experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams.
- Strong ability to assess complex geological and/or geophysical problems and provide guidance to the wider team.
- Experience in the use of seismic interpretation software.
- Excellent report writing skills with the ability to independently review others’ work.
The following qualities are desirable -
- Doctoral degree or equivalent experience is an advantage.
- Experience or academic background in the geology of glaciated terrains and glacial depositional environments.
- Experience in the use of IHS Kingdom or DUG Insight software.
- Experience in the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software (ArcGIS, QGIS or similar).
- Ability to provide technical leadership on offshore geophysical or geotechnical survey scopes of work.
