Job Purpose:
Job Title: Senior Hydrographic Surveyor
Advertised Salary: £43,500 - £46,750 (depending on experience) + benefits.
Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Location: Remote, with regular travel across our national network required. Applicants must have access to Tinsley Marina, Sheffield.
https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/canal-and-river-network
Travel: This role will require regular travel (2 - 3 days a week) across the Trust’s national network of reservoirs, canals and river navigations. Around 30 - 35 overnights away from home per year may be required.
We’re the charity who look after and bring to life 2,000 miles of waterways across England and Wales, because we believe that life is better by water. Every role across the Trust plays its part in transforming our canals and rivers into spaces where local people want to spend time and feel better, bringing wellbeing benefits to millions.
We currently have a Senior Hydrographic Surveyor vacancy.The Senior Hydrographic Surveyor will lead a team responsible for collecting, processing, analysing, interpreting and presenting spatial information on the waterway environment.
The role holder will work cross functionally with others, contributing to the development and implementation of waterway asset management strategies and plans, and providing technical advice and leadership to support the Trust’s operation, maintenance, repair and renewal of waterway assets. The Senior Hydrographic Surveyors role is also to develop the Trust’s capabilities in spatial surveys and spatial information technology.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• To plan a survey programme, ensuring delivery; to undertake scheduled surveys, ensuring that they are completed to plan, data is captured, reviewed, approved and recorded in the prescribed format, to the prescribed quality; and to provide regular management reports.
• To lead the processing of hydrographic and other relevant spatial survey data, ensuring that it is completed to plan, is reviewed, approved and reported in the prescribed format, to the prescribed quality; and to provide regular management reports.
• To analyse and evaluate, and help others to analyse and evaluate, the outputs of surveys to support the identification, prioritisation and definition of maintenance, repair and renewal works for delivery by the Trust‘s teams and contractors, taking account of all statutory, technical, operational and customer requirements.
• To ensure that relevant information management systems (e.g. SAP / GIS / Sharepoint) provide and report reliable, accurate, timely and complete information which can be used to inform and defend Trust priorities and actions.
• To develop, review and update standards, procedures and processes as part of an integrated ISO business system.
• To contribute to the development & implementation of relevant asset strategies, including the dredging strategy.
• To drive innovation, development & wider application of the Trust’s hydrographic survey capabilities; other allied spatial survey techniques; and spatial information technologies to support asset management.
• To benchmark against, and share best practice with, appropriate organisations & stakeholders to understand opportunities for continual improvement.
• Display the Trust values and behaviours at all times.
• Ensure that diversity and inclusion are integrated into all aspects of Trust life and promote inclusion by challenging behaviour, practices, actions, or decisions that are counter to the objectives of the Trust’s policies and values.

Please refer the Job description for details