Lead Surveyor

Position: Lead Surveyor
Location: Mozambique LNG Camp, Afungi Peninsula, Mozambique with travel to other project sites (Maputo, Pemba, etc) as needed during rotation.
Status: Rotational 28/28

Activities

• Liaise with Project teams to identify all onshore and offshore positioning/survey activities and operations conducted by Project that require positioning techniques.
• Technically manage bid evaluations, award recommendations and contract document preparation.
• Issue survey elements for SimOps dossier or any other request from stakeholders.
• Support positioning activities relative to these operations on behalf of Company (site surveys, rig moves, pipeline inspection, pre-lay, as-laid, as-built surveys, metrologies for both offshore and onshore).
• Review Contractors specifications, procedures and method statements relative to positioning or survey activities and ensure their effective implementation.
• Perform QA/QC of survey results and liaise with Geomatics Team for implementation in GIS system.
• Support survey-grade drone operations at site by providing supervision and expertise in ground control, trajectory computation, bundle block adjustment and validating final products accuracy (3D model, orthophoto, DTM/DSM) .
• Perform geodetic, topographic, GNSS calculations by use of appropriate survey software.
• Support Project teams on ad-hoc requests by providing insights in topography, positioning and geodesy and any other geomatics related field and issue reports/memos documenting critical findings.
• Define and implement a positioning data management policy based on Company standards to guarantee reliability and sustainability of the data.
• Manage company-owned survey equipment including metrology interfaces and make recommendations for technological implementation in improving positioning accuracy at site.
• Manage service company spending and ensure cost forecast are in accordance with budget.
• Ensure compliance with safety and environmental rules during work and travel.

Qualifications/Experience required
Bachelor of Science required (Master of Science preferred) in Hydrography, Geodesy or Land Survey

Required qualifications include:

- Minimum of 10 years of experience in the technical domain (Land Survey, offshore survey including LBL, Sparse LBL, USBL, INS processing).
- Minimum of 5 years of experience acting as Company Representative for positioning & survey activities (Rig Moves, Survey, Installation, Inspection,
Metrologies).
- Experience in manipulating commonly used CAD & positioning processing softwares (AutoCAD/Microstation/CIVIL3D, Novatel, Leica, RTKLib, Sonardyne
Fusion, Kongsberg APOS, EIVA, SALSA, DelphINS).
- Experience in aerial photogrammetry and LiDAR survey and processing.
- Experience in GIS and remote sensing would be a plus (QGIS, ESRI suite, Global Mapper).
- Good knowledge of Field Development Projects in Oil&Gas industry both Offshore and Onshore.
- Fluent oral and written knowledge of English is required.
- Soft skills: Rigorous, Conscientious, Observant, Pro-active, Autonomous, Adaptive, Team player.





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