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Zetica are a UK based independent geophysical specialist, providing environmental and engineering geophysical solutions to a wide range of construction, infrastructure and engineering clients. Renowned for our quality and breadth of capability, innovation and efficiency, we are the ‘goto’ for clients who value meticulous attention to the brief, going beyond expectations, and problem solving.

The Senior Geophysicist is highly motivated, inquisitive and meticulous and helps us provide rigorous and informative investigations critical to the success of client projects. They have in-depth knowledge of geophysical investigations and are enthusiastic about sharing this knowledge with our growing team.

MAIN AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

The Senior Geophysicist is involved in survey design, with input to technical solutions at the proposal stage and refinements during the project preparation stage.

Throughout fieldwork stages, they oversee data quality, visit site where necessary, and ensure that the teams are properly supported from a technical perspective. They have the opportunity to lead fieldwork, especially during the more technically challenging projects.

The Senior Geophysicist provides guidance for the data processing, interpretation and reporting stages of a project, undertaking these aspects themself for more complex projects. They may be required to present results both internally and to clients.

At all stages of the work, they will be expected to maintain and improve our quality standards, ensuring projects are delivered on time and to budget, with innovative approaches where possible and ensure that our projects are conducted in line with best industry practice.

The Senior Geophysicist will be involved in project across all of Zetica’s departments, including transport infrastructure surveys, engineering / geotechnical surveys, geological / environmental geophysical surveys, unexploded ordnance detection surveys and utility service detection surveys. They will gain experience across this wide breath of disciplines, utilising established and developing techniques and instrumentation for a wide range of clients.

They will also be expected to provide significant input into our extensive innovation, research and development projects.

REPORTS TO: Senior Projects Manager

KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

Internal: CEO, Managing Director and Senior Projects Manager

External: Various clients, both nationally and internationally

LOCATION: Head Office – Zetica House, Eynsham

HOURS OF WORK: Fulltime, permanent

PERSON SPECIFICATION:

The Senior Geophysicist role requires a post graduate degree in geophysics, combined with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in near surface high resolution geophysical surveys. They can demonstrate experience in collecting, processing, interpreting and reporting geophysical investigations for environmental or engineering applications using the majority of the following techniques:

• Ground penetrating radar (GPR)
• Electromagnetics (EM)
• Magnetometry
• Microgravity
• Electrical methods (e.g. resistivity, induced polarisation, self-potential)
• Seismic methods (e.g. P- and S-wave seismic refraction, surface wave seismics, borehole seismics).

They are proficient in relevant geophysical data processing and interpretation software including Oasis Montaj, GeoGiga, SurfSeis, Res2Dinv, Zonde, Aarhus Workbench or similar. Experience in mapping or GIS packages (AutoCAD, Microstation, ArcGIS, QGIS or similar) is desirable.

As well as having a scientific and enquiring mind, the Senior Geophysicist is a good communicator, with excellent spoken and written English and good reporting skills and a friendly and approachable persona.

1. Title & Summary

Project Delivery Specialist – fulltime, permanent role

We are advertising for a Project Delivery Specialist to join our Delivery Team, responsible for ensuring that our rail projects are delivered on time and to a high standard. This varied role will involve reviewing and reporting on data collected from various types of sensors including Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), LiDAR and cameras. A typical project could involve analysing data from 1000s kilometres of railway, captured from railway networks around the world. It is the Project Delivery Specialist’s role to condense this vast amount of information into digestible insights for our customers.

2. The Organisation

Zetica are a UK based independent geophysical specialist, providing environmental and engineering geophysical solutions to a wide range of construction, infrastructure and engineering clients. Renowned for our quality and breadth of capability, innovation and efficiency, we are the ‘go-to’ for clients who value meticulous attention to the brief, going beyond expectations, and problem solving.

This ad is for a position in our Rail department.   We specialise in analysis of worldwide rail infrastructure and it’s subsurface.   Our data collection is based on applied geophysical science that ultimately informs the customer on a variety of measures required to manage infrastructure upgrade and maintenance programmes.

3. The Role & Responsibilities

Key responsibilities for this role include:

• Preparing customer deliverables including reports and data visualisations
• Carrying out statistical reviews of the data to ensure its validity and to extract useful customer insights
• Carrying out detailed reviews of raw data to investigate anomalies and examine interesting features
• Reviewing location information (collected using an inertial measurement system (INS)) to ensure all data can be accurately located in the real world
• Ensuring that deliverables meet all requirements from the project specification
• Comparing results to available ground truth information to confirm its accuracy

Full training will be provided.

4. The Team

You will be working as part of a small Project Delivery Team.

5. Requirements

Key skills for this role include:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Experience with data visualization tools is helpful (Tableau, Power BI, Excel)
• Basic programming with Python or MATLAB is preferred.
• Strong communications skills to collaborate with team members in the Project Delivery Team
• Attention to detail to produce customer friendly outputs
• Experience analysing and processing GPR radargrams and / or LiDAR data

6. Salary and benefits

Salary range is £26,000 to £31,000, depending on experience.   25 days annual leave plus UK bank holidays.   5% company pension contribution.

Benefits include:

• Company profit share scheme
• Health Cash Plan with retail vouchers and cash back
• Salary sacrifice your pension contribution.
• Zetica can help with the Cycle to Work Scheme

7. Selection process:

• Candidates will be shortlisted based on aptitude, experience, and qualifications.
• Shortlisted candidates will only be invited for an interview which following submission of a CV and covering letter. You will be required to do a short skills test.
• The final decision will be made based on the interview performance and overall assessment of aptitude and your CV and letter submission.

How to Apply:

To apply for this position, please submit your cv and a cover email outlining why you are interested in this role to recruitment@zetica.com

Zetica Ltd is an Equal Opportunities Employer