Survey Operations Manager, United Kingdom

The role

This person will oversee UK survey delivery by managing contractor crews, running direct survey operations, and supporting training and certification. They will also handle equipment maintenance, logistics, and troubleshooting to keep UK jobs on track.

What you will do

• Overseeing active survey jobs carried out by Bedrock-trained contractor crews across the UK
• Serving as the primary escalation point for contractor crews during live operations
• Stepping in directly to perform survey operations including load-out, mission planning, deck operations, and demobilization
• Supporting delivery of Bedrock’s contractor training and certification course
• Supporting onboarding of new contractor crews
• Assisting with mobilization and logistics for UK and European jobs
• Performing routine maintenance, troubleshooting, and minor fabrication or repair on survey equipment
• Providing regular status updates to the wider Ops team and to clients
• Maintaining detailed records of daily job activity
• Feeding field issues, near-misses, and lessons learned back to operations and training functions

Required qualifications

• Experience operating marine technologies directly related to Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV's)
• Experience leading, training, or supervising field crews or technicians in a maritime or offshore environment
• Experience working with contractors or vendors in the maritime world
• Troubleshooting capability on marine survey equipment
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to assess crew performance and job readiness against a defined standard
• Based in, or willing to relocate to, the United Kingdom
• Right to work in the United Kingdom without a visa or work permit
• Ability to travel regularly for survey operations, including nights away from home
• Prolonged periods of standing on a vessel and sitting at a desk
• Working in outdoor weather conditions on a vessel
• The ability to lift up to 50 pounds at times

Nice to have

• Certified Hydrographer
• Experience developing or delivering technical training content
• Working knowledge of unmanned underwater systems and related systems such as marine remote sensing instrumentation and software
• Knowledge of AutoCAD, GIS and Global Mapper
• Near shore / offshore vessel operations experience, e.g. an OOW or Master's certificate of competency
• Strong metal work and mechanical fabrication skills
• Experience with harnessing and cable building, debugging, soldering, crimping, splicing, potting, routing, field repairs
• Prior experience managing contractor or subcontractor relationships in an offshore/maritime context
• Experience with equipment mobilization/logistics

About the company

Bedrock is operationalizing the largest Earth-exploration mission in human history by developing robotics and software to explore, map, and classify the entirety of Earth's ocean floor.