Survey Operations Manager, United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Overseeing active survey jobs carried out by Bedrock-trained contractor crews across the UK, ensuring work is executed to Bedrock’s operational, safety, and data-quality standards.
• Serving as the primary escalation point for contractor crews during live operations- supporting go/no-go and abort/continue calls, and troubleshooting equipment or mission issues alongside the crew.
• Stepping in directly to perform survey operations- equipment load-out, mission planning, deck operations, and demobilization- when a job needs extra hands, is unusually complex, or hasn’t yet been assigned to a…
• Supporting delivery of Bedrock’s contractor training and certification course- assisting with hands-on/practical modules, helping assess trainee readiness, and reinforcing course material with real field experience.
• Supporting onboarding of new contractor crews after they complete training and certification, verifying field readiness before a crew is released to operate independently.
• Assisting with mobilization and logistics for UK and European jobs- equipment movement, customs and carnets, in-region vessel arrangements, and spares-coordinating with Bedrock’s logistics function as needed.
• Performing routine maintenance, troubleshooting, and minor fabrication or repair on survey equipment to keep UK-based gear field-ready between jobs.
• Providing regular status updates on active UK jobs to the wider Ops team and to clients.

Job requirements

• A true generalist who’s comfortable wearing multiple hats across operations, training, logistics, and hands-on fieldwork- you don’t wait to be told which lane you’re in
• Experience operating marine technologies directly related to Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV's), ideally with at-sea commercial experience beyond private vessel operation
• Experience leading, training, or supervising field crews or technicians in a maritime or offshore environment
• Comfortable teaching or mentoring others- as much at home helping run a training session as running a deck
• Comfortable moving between hands-on survey work and remote oversight of crews performing it- this role does all of it
• Experience working with contractors or vendors in the maritime world, ideally within the United Kingdom and/or European market
• Troubleshooting capability on marine survey equipment, including the ability to talk a crew through a fix remotely
• Strong communication skills; comfortable acting as the connective tissue between contractor crews, clients, and Bedrock’s core team