Ocean Environment Technical Lead

2 weeks ago


Taunton, United Kingdom UK Hydrographic Office Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 297358**Salary**:

- £43,889- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- UKHO - Operations Content**Type of role**:

- Analytical
- Defence Operations
- Science**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Taunton, Somerset, South WestAbout the job

**Job summary**:
UK Hydrographic Office customers require us to provide professional advice and a range of Situational Awareness products providing information about the marine environment to assist in their planning. To support this, the Ocean Environment Team within the Scientific Analysis Group, acquires data from a variety of sources and analyses those data for subsequent use. Our Ocean Environment Technical Leads have the expertise necessary to advise on the use of this environmental data and provide an assessment of the environmental conditions likely to be encountered. This will be achieved through collaborations with external organisations and scientific communities.

We are in a position to be able to recruit 2 Ocean Environment Technical Leads to join and augment our Ocean Environment Team.

Due to the nature of the work of the team, and the level of customer engagement and support provided to colleagues, on average 2 to 3 days a week working in the Taunton office would be the norm, although this can fluctuate depending on work in hand.

**Job description**:
Activities and responsibilities fall into the following key areas:
Build scientific capability and expertise across marine environmental disciplines within the UKHO:

- Drive forward the technical development of specialist staff skills within the Ocean Environment Team - this includes technical specialists across Oceanography, Marine Biology, Geology, Acoustics and Data Analytics/Management.

Conduct research into:

- New marine environmental data acquisition (e.g. technology), processing (e.g. software) and analytical techniques (e.g. modelling)
- Marine environmental data sources and standards, assessing the relevance to UKHO strategy
- Complex technical issues relating to marine environmental data

Supervise Marine Environment related projects and programmes:

- Responsible for overseeing marine environmental data processing, validating and data-basing. Seeking continuous improvement of UKHO's Marine Environmental data deliverables and processing procedures by primary research advising on the best formats, systems and practices.
- Supporting the technical development of the Marine Environment databases and data management processes.
- Providing technical leadership and representing UKHO interests on issues relating to emergent oceanographic data gathering technologies, e.g. the management and use of data collected using AUVs.
- Verification of Marine Environment outputs, including assessing and editing geospatial data and associated text/reports.

Engage externally with Marine Environment experts, data suppliers and potential partners/collaborators, and UKHO Customers, including the Royal Navy:

- Provide technical leadership to Royal Navy Hydrographic and Meteorological staff regarding appraisal and use of marine environmental data.
- Represent the Marine Environmental technical interests of the UKHO throughout the MOD (including Allied), Government and academic communities.

**Person specification**:
Please note that we will only score against the sift and interview criteria and not the essential and desirable information below.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
- Developing Self and Others
- Working Together

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Working with large complex datasets
- Computer programming skills

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £43,889, UK Hydrographic Office contributes £11,850 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.At the UK Hydrographic Office, it's very important to us that our people feel valued.

We offer a huge range of benefits such as training and development, well-being support, flexible/ homeworking, a fantastic state of the art building, high spec equipment, and so much more.

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.How to Apply:
Timeline:

- Shortlisting: week commencing: 24 July 2023
- Interviews: week commencing: 7 August 2023

We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed



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