Cable Route Engineer

Cable Route Engineer | London, UK | £45,000 - £60,000 per annum

Role Purpose

The Cable Route Engineer oversees the planning, mobilisation, and operational activities of subcontracted hydrographic survey operations, which use full ocean depth capable vessels for most of the cable route, and smaller vessels inshore and topographic activities at cable landing locations. The Cable Route Engineer liaises with offshore teams to ensure the quality of operations, and to receive survey data deliverables that enable the creation of post-survey RPLs, an essential output for the company's manufacturing teams to use.

The Cable Route Engineer role is a highly skilled and key role within the company’s Marine directorate, enabling all pre-manufacturing decisions to be made about cable routing, manufacturing design and installation strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Office based role with responsibility for all aspects of Cable Route Studies (desk top studies, site visits), database compilation and chart production using ESRI ARCGIS software.
• Carry out Cable Route Engineering using Makai Plan (on Geomedia GIS) to generate Route Position Lists (RPLs) and Straight Line Diagrams (SLDs) for cable manufacture and installation.
• Review and perform quality control of the Marine Survey Reports delivered to the company prior to Customer delivery.
• Opportunities for offshore work and worldwide travel (site visits, customer & sub-contractor meetings, survey operations).
• Work as a member of the Route Engineering team, seeing projects through from initial feasibility studies to marine survey and up to installation phase.
• Working within the Marine directorate and supporting the Project Management directorate.

Experience / Qualifications Required:

• Degree in Oceanography and/or an Earth Sciences subject.
• Hydrographic Survey experience preferred.
• Experience with GIS systems.
• Ability to communicate effectively both internally and externally with suppliers and customers, delivering presentations in a confident and professional manner

For more information or to apply with contact Jack Baker on +44 (0) 2392322384 or email your CV to jbaker@navis-consulting.com