Senior Geophysical Engineer

Job DescriptionRoleSenior Geophysical engineer - Scottish PowerWhat you get• Hybrid Role• Competitive rate umbrella or PAYE• 6-12 Month contract• Glasgow HQ/LondonThe Senior Geophysical Engineer role is a maternity cover position. The role is a critical role within the Offshore Renewables Business, focussing on the delivery of all geophysical aspects of ScottishPower Renewables and Iberdrola's global portfolio of offshore wind farm projects, from development to operation.The Senior Geophysical Engineer role sits in the Ground Engineering Team within the Site Engineering Department and reports to the Geophysical Lead.The Ground Engineering team is a function that provides support to individual projects and the business. The company adopts an intelligent client business model for ground engineering services. This comprises a relatively small pool of company permanent staff with differing sub-disciplines (e.g. geotechnical design, geotechnical survey, engineering geology, geophysical survey etc.). Projects are led by a Ground Engineering Lead (GEL) and supported by the internal ground engineering team members, and external contractors and consultants.Key tasksThe Senior Geophysical Engineer will support the GEL and / or directly the project on all matter relating to geophysics. Key Tasks As a Senior Geophysical Engineer, tasks will include but not be limited to:• Manage site investigation activities from a geophysical engineering perspective across the offshore project portfolio, covering the life cycle of the project from early-stage project development through to operation and maintenance.• Support and lead the development of survey strategy, survey duration and cost estimates, and survey and consultancy scopes of work.• Overall responsibility for the successful delivery of geophysical surveys. This includes managing the Owner's Engineer who perform the survey management, and regularly making important judgements, decisions and recommendations that will influence multi-million pound geophysical campaign contracts.• Support tendering and contractual negotiations for geophysical surveys and consultancy work ensuring appropriate risk management.• Through geophysics, ensure that ground engineering risks on projects are identified and mitigated.• Provide technical support and advice on survey and equipment types to be used for all survey campaigns across the business. This shall also require an understanding of the specific engineering objectives, strategies and commercial agreements to ensure that cost effective technically sound solutions that achieve project objectives are identified. • Manage and support ground model development activities for engineering design and installation purposes, ensuring all engineering design and installation objectives are accounted for and that all ground model development methods meet the technical requirements.• Provide geophysical support and advice to different packages and stakeholders including transport and installation, cables, foundations, development, operations and maintenance etc.Key Criteria • Ensure compliance with industry guidelines and best practice, and awareness of suppliers and latest developments in technology, including assessment of suitable of new technology to support the project pipeline (identifying potential to reduce cost and risk, or improve safety)• Support innovation projects on behalf of the company. You will engage with the steering committee on those projects and, based on the project pipeline, ensure the best interests of the company are kept as priority.• Support the delivery of multi-contract packages within time, to budget and to a high quality following the best industry practice and observing the maximum respect for health, safety and the environment to ensure regulatory and legal compliance.• Support the development, maintenance and modification of geophysical related standard documentation and procedures to ensure optimised geophysical site investigations. • Ensure lessons learnt regarding offshore geophysics are captured, shared and solutions applied across the different projects through modification of procedures. • Support junior engineers and placement students. The requirement to perform these tasks will vary depending on business, project and team needs. Key Criteria To be successful in a role you will need to demonstrate the majority of the requirements below. Where a candidate does not meet all of the listed requirements but shows strength in key areas, they will be considered for the position:• Educated to degree level in a relevant geophysical, geological or highly relevant discipline.• Excellent experience in a variety of geophysical survey methods, including offshore acquisition, that are relevant to offshore wind farm development.• Excellent experience in the interpretation of geophysical datasets.• Experience of ground model development using geophysical datasets.• Excellent experience of planning, managing and executing offshore geophysical site investigations for large scale projects with multiple vessel survey campaigns.• Knowledge of and / or experience engaging with the different stakeholders of an offshore wind farm development and devising geophysical requirements to supports these.• Experience in balancing technical, commercial and programme requirements to ensure that project objectives are achieved.• Knowledge and/or experience of the integration of geotechnical and geophysical data to produce an integrated engineering ground model.• Experience with geophysical software tools (e.g. Kingdom, Oasis Montaj, SonarWiz and GIS).• Experience in influencing and developing key project and business decisions.• Experience supporting global teams and decision-making processes to achieve project objectives under challenging timelines and within a budget.• Experience communicating effectively and influencing decision making within a diverse team of different expertise and experiences to achieve results.• Pro-active and diligent approach. Innovative and creative thinker. Problem solver.• Excellent knowledge of industry codes and standards and offshore regulations.• Experience in dealing with health, safety and environmental legislation associated with site investigation and offshore construction projects.• Excellent ability in document writing in English and formatting, and excellent ability to communicate complex problems in a simple manner to a variety of backgrounds.• IT literate with the ability to effectively operate MS Office systems and the willingness to learn other IT based project management software.• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.If you're interested in this role – or know someone else who might be – please applyJBRP1_UKTJ