Job Title: Party Chief
Location: UK with opportunity to travel globally.
Contract: Full-time (Perm)
Our client, an ambitious marine surveying company specialising in precise dimensional control, hydrographic and marine engineering surveys across the UK and Europe, is currently seeking a Party Chief to join their team on a permanent basis due to increased growth of the company.
This role will be suited to someone with 7+ years of offshore experience, with a minimum of 3 of those years serving as a Party Chief.
The Party Chief will specifically be responsible for:
* Working under the applicable regulations and requirements of the client and the industry.
* Overseeing and advising on technical aspects of conducting hydrographic survey operations including vessel mobilisation, data acquisition, processing and reporting of hydrographic data.
* Assisting with technical queries from clients and the clients team members and problem-solving for colleagues working offshore.
* Assisting with compilation of company hydrographic survey procedures and policies, including those required for complying with ISO accreditations.
* Liaising with clients to provide technical survey advice.
* Supporting the Project Manager to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.
* Contributing to hydrographic survey strategies regarding projects, tasks, and operations current and future.
* Identifying and resolving potential technical issues relating to clients, project over-runs, etc. and reporting these to the Project Manager and department managers.
* Assisting with QA for projects within the offshore survey department.
* Line management, mentoring and teaching of junior team members.
HSEQ:
* To regularly review and check that departmental ISO documents and forms are kept current.
* Ensure that the requirements of the Health, Safety, Environment & Quality procedures, insofar as they affect works under their control, are properly implemented.
* Responsible for ensuring that risk assessments and method statements are followed by staff and contractors under their control.
* Initiate, implement and record safety inspections, TBT etc.
* Ensure that all repair and maintenance work is carried out by competent persons.
* Communicate to all personnel working on project sites the requirements of the clients Health & Safety and Environmental procedures and applicable statutory requirements and ensure compliance.
* Continually engage with project teams and contractors to ensure that the clients high HSEQ standards are being maintained at all times.
Requirements for the role of Party Chief will be:
* Competence in most surveying procedures, be it hydrographic or geophysical.
* Ability to create technical survey documents, procedures and reports.
* Competent user of online survey instrumentation: GNSS, MRU, MBES, SSS, Magnetometer, SBP.
* Competent user of online survey software: QINSy, Beamworx, Caris HIPS + SIPS, POSPac, Sonarwiz etc.
* Excellent communicator at all levels both internally within all ranks of the team and externally to clients.
* Ability to understand the commercial and financial aspects of completing a project on time and within budget.
This is a great opportunity with our client to work for an ambitious group, building out in the Renewables industry and continuing to further work on projects across the UK & Europe.
If you are in the contract/freelance world looking to make the transition back into full-time employment as well, this is something for you to consider.