Salary range: $75,000 to $90,000 per annum
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Collecting hydrographic data utilising sophisticated computer systems and equipment such as multi-beam and single beam echo-sounders, sonar, GPS and other navigation systems
- Collecting oceanographic data by taking seabed samples, observing water clarity and temperature, measuring the speed of sound through water and observing bioluminescence
- Conducting tide camps, field operations and Rapid Environmental Assessments
- Conducting seamanship evolutions including anchor work, rope work, small boat handling and operations, berthing, towing and deploying and recovering surveying equipment such as side scan sonars and moving vessel profilers
- Conducting watchkeeping duties at sea such as lookout, helmsman and survey systems operator
Requirements:
- Degree qualified in Hydrography or Surveying with experience in hydrographic projects and at least three years’ experience in hydrographic surveying using multibeam sonars in support of dredging projects and general seabed mapping.
- Must have experience processing and interpreting MBES bathymetric data (experience in collecting and processing other geophysical data sets will be highly regarded), generating GIS and mapping products, and communicating the results in survey reports. Experience with the QPS suite of programs will be considered an advantage.