Marine Geoscience Graduate/Associate (Geophysical)
Apply locations Southampton, United Kingdom time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id R00025928
Our time is NOW.
ERM, the world's largest pure play sustainability consultancy, has a fantastic entry-level opportunity for a Marine Geoscience Associate, with a geophysical focus.
Our Marine Renewables & Infrastructure team includes an integrated geophysical and geotechnical team offering specialist services to clients across a range of sectors including marine aggregate, offshore wind, OFTO, wave and tidal energy, subsea cable installation, coastal/marine engineering, and ports/harbours developments.
You will be required to support a range of geoscience projects, with a focus on hydrographic and geomorphological interpretation using survey data, following appropriate support, as well as feed into technical report writing. You will interpret bathymetry, sidescan sonar, magnetometer and shallow seismic data using industry-standard software. You’ll interrogate these data to assess seabed habitats and shallow sediments for marine aggregates, offshore renewables and marine interconnector development, and provide support in writing proposals for future projects.
Why join ERM?
Flexible working to suit your life – need to do the school run? Not a problem! More productive and happy if you work from home a couple of days per week? Go ahead! Love to travel? Ask about our Cross Border Remote Working! You’ll have 25 days annual leave + public holidays, 6% employer pension contribution, twice annual promotion opportunities, annual salary review and performance related bonus, private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection, EV car salary sacrifice scheme, Cycle2Work scheme, travel season ticket loan, volunteering and Give As You Earn opportunities, employee assistance programme and premium account for Calm (the #1 app for sleep and meditation) in order to look after your wellbeing, plus discounts on gym membership and gift cards for a wide variety of retailers and restaurants.
We offer employees a safety-first, diverse and inclusive culture in which difference is embraced, valued, and celebrated. With a robust career framework in place and 20+ technical communities of global experts you can join, there are great opportunities to advance your career here at ERM.
About you
* Degree-qualified in a relevant marine geoscience or geophysics subject
* Experience with at least one specialist geoscience software program, such as IHS Kingdom, SonarWiz or ESRI Arc Map/ArcGIS Pro or QGIS
* Possess an understanding of offshore geophysical site investigation equipment and techniques, data acquisition/assessment
* Have a reasonable grounding in interpreting seabed features and marine geomorphology
At this early stage in your career, it is important for your development to be in and around the team as much as possible, soaking in the knowledge around you; therefore you will need to live within daily commutable distance of our Southampton office (please confirm any intention to relocate in your application).
We look forward to reviewing your application!
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