Senior Geophysical Engineer

Job Title Senior Geophysical Engineer 

Location Glasgow or London 

Salary from £54,800, up to 15% bonus and health cover  

Flexible Working Pattern 

Help us create a better future, quicker 

The Senior Geophysical Engineer is a critical role within the Offshore Renewables Business, focussing on the delivery of large-scale global offshore wind projects. 

The Senior Geophysical Engineer role sits in the Ground Engineering Team within the Site Engineering Department and reports to the Ground Engineering Discipline Manager. 

The successful candidate will work across the ScottishPower and global Iberdrola portfolio. As part of the ground engineering team, they will provide geophysical support and expertise to offshore wind farm developments at all stages in the life cycle, from development to operation. They may be required to operate across regions as well as be attached to projects for an extended period of time, depending on the stage of project and complexity of the works.

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. The Senior Geophysical Engineer will support the GEL and / or directly the project on all matter relating to geophysics. 

What you’ll be doing 

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.  

• 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. 

What you’ll bring 

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. 

What’s in it for you 

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%. 

At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include: 

• 36 days annual leave 

• Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave 

• Share Schemes 

• Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding 

• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases 

• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving 

• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans 

• Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments 

• Life Assurance (4x salary) 

• Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support 

• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more 

Why ScottishPower 

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we’re at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation. 

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in. 

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers@scottishpower.com. 

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