Party Chief

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.