Specialist Engineer, Geomatics

Overview

Provide technical support and manage offshore geomatics surveys for oil & gas projects.

Key Responsibilities

• survey planning
• hydrographic survey
• geodetic definition
• spec development
• quality control
• contractor evaluation

Tasks

-Plan and execute overall survey projects for various field development activities and engineering design needs. -Manage the day to day operations, plan and determine the local priorities and approaches to achieve results implement operational forecasts and manage the outcomes. -Coordinate the preparation of survey reports and maps in consultation with relevant contractor and ADNOC Offshore. Quality control of all survey project plans and final reports, data and maps and ensure that learning and improvements are applied to new projects. -Develop scope of work including quality assurance processes for geophysical, geotechnical, topographic, geodetic, environmental, meteorological, oceanographic and aerial photogrammetric surveys. -Plans and produces technical specifications for all types of surveys carried out by the contractor. -Ensures that the contractor has provided the company with all the required deliverables at the end of the project in the required accuracy and format. -Defines geodetic references in Company’s offshore oil fields in conjunction with Company data sets to ensure coherence of references and continue to define the geodetic references in other company’s area of operation. -Evaluate contractor’s technical competency and inspect survey vessels to pre-qualify contractors, based on their adherence to client's Offshore standards. -Conducts hydrographic surveys in Company’s offshore concession areas using the chartered survey vessels, this includes bathymetric, and sides can survey to locate and map subsea pipelines and other seabed objects.

Requirements

• technical writing
• offshore survey
• 5+ years
• hydrography degree
• oil&gas
• iho certification

What You Bring

-Good technical writing skills for scope development and presentation skills -5 years of survey experience in Oil&Gas industry specifically offshore surveys -Bachelor’s Degree in Hydrographic Surveying or equivalent courses in Hydrography -15+ years of experience in oil & gas, with a strong focus on offshore projects -Certification from International Hydrography Organisation (IHO) would be ideal

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About Penspen

-As an independent consultancy, it delivers front‑end to operations engineering, project and asset management across energy lifecycles. -Driven by innovation, it created THEIA, a digital pipeline integrity tool blending AI, inspections and digital twins. -Its work spans large‑scale pipelines, carbon‑capture engineering, repurposed gas networks for hydrogen, and integrity audits. -Unusual fact: in the early 2010s it studied using trained dogs to detect pipeline leaks—demonstrating creative problem-solving.

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