Oceanographic Engineer

Company Background

OpenHydro is a technology business that designs and manufactures marine turbines to generate renewable energy from tidal streams. The company's vision is to deploy farms of tidal turbines under the world's oceans - silently and invisibly generating electricity at no cost to the environment. For more information visit www.openhydro.com.

Scope of position:             

• Member of OpenHydro’s site resource analysis team, requiring regular collaboration with the Engineering and Projects teams.
• Principally responsible for the analysis of oceanographic site data from vessel-mounted Acoustic Doppler Profiler (ADP) surveys and bottom-mounted ADP surveys.
• The role will also involve analysis of performance data from OpenHydro’s Open-Centre Turbine.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Planning and execution of marine surveys using OpenHydro’s ADP equipment.
• Numerical processing and analysis of metocean data.
• Processing and analysis of data from OpenHydro’s turbines.
• Creation and development of data analysis tools, methods and software.
• Flexibility in the role is a key requirement, particularly when working to tight client or internal deadlines. 

Essential Skills & Experience

• Minimum experience of 2 years working with ADP data.
• Strong skills in MATLAB and Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to interpret data and propose innovative solutions for our business.
• Practical and innovative approach to work.
• Strong presentation and report writing skills.
• Enthusiastic, positive and proactive nature, excellent work ethic & flexibility.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and team working skills.
• Willingness to travel to project locations.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Marine operations experience.
• Familiarity with GIS software.
• Experience of working in the tidal stream energy industry.
• Knowledge of renewable energy systems and the marine environment.