Senior Surveyor / Positioning Manager at United Geophysical (Nigeria) Limited

Location: GRA, Lagos
Level: Senior Staff
Reporting To: Party Chief

Description

• We are seeking to engage surveyors with land and shallow marine seismic experience for our operations in Nigeria.

Responsibilities

• Supervising all survey activities including field surveyors’ performance.
• Ensuring that field data is professionally acquired by field surveyors.
• Planning the entire survey operation ahead of schedule.
• Ensuring that all equipment is fit for purpose at all times by calibrating survey equipment on a monthly basis.
• Providing the lead in the provision of controls by the use of GPS.
• Responsible for making available error-free data to seismologists and clients.
• Creating a robust relationship with clients.
• Monitoring QC surveyors for error-free outputs.
• Producing required maps in a timely manner.
• Putting in place measures to achieve set production targets.
• Writing weekly, monthly, and End of Project Reports.
• Creating and maintaining a template to continuously assess office and field surveyors’ performance.
• Responsible for the implementation of the Company’s Health and Safety Management System as applied to the Survey Department and the crew as a whole.
• Frequent evaluation of the state and numbers of equipment with a view to maintaining adequate numbers of and fit for purpose equipment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a B.Sc. Degree, 2nd Class Upper Division
• Minimum of 4 years experience in the seismic industry
• Registration with the Surveyors Registration Council of Nigeria is an added advantage.

Requirements:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proactive.
• Result oriented.
• Must demonstrate integrity.
• Should demonstrate initiative and excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize.
• Well organized.
• Solid decision-making skills and the ability to exercise independent judgment.
• Proficient in GPS operation, good knowledge of GP seismic QC software, and knowledgeable in GIS and geoinformatics.
• Should be mature minded, intelligent, and able to supervise all activities in Survey.
• Ability to administer the field surveyors and instill discipline.