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Survey Operations Manager, United Kingdom

Bedrock Ocean Exploration· Survey Ops Team
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RemoteFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Operational generalist role overseeing Bedrock's UK survey delivery, combining hands-on field operations, contractor management, training delivery, and logistics to ensure safe, high-quality autonomous marine survey work.

Responsibilities

  • Overseeing active survey jobs carried out by Bedrock-trained contractor crews across the UK, ensuring work is executed to Bedrock’s operational, safety, and data-quality standards.
  • Serving as the primary escalation point for contractor crews during live operations- supporting go/no-go and abort/continue calls, and troubleshooting equipment or mission issues alongside the crew.
  • Stepping in directly to perform survey operations- equipment load-out, mission planning, deck operations, and demobilization- when a job needs extra hands, is unusually complex, or hasn’t yet been assigned to a certified contractor crew.
  • Supporting delivery of Bedrock’s contractor training and certification course- assisting with hands-on/practical modules, helping assess trainee readiness, and reinforcing course material with real field experience.
  • Supporting onboarding of new contractor crews after they complete training and certification, verifying field readiness before a crew is released to operate independently.
  • Assisting with mobilization and logistics for UK and European jobs- equipment movement, customs and carnets, in-region vessel arrangements, and spares-coordinating with Bedrock’s logistics function as needed.
  • Performing routine maintenance, troubleshooting, and minor fabrication or repair on survey equipment to keep UK-based gear field-ready between jobs.
  • Providing regular status updates on active UK jobs to the wider Ops team and to clients.
  • Maintaining detailed records of daily job activity across all crews under your oversight.
  • Feeding field issues, near-misses, and lessons learned back to Bedrock’s operations and training functions so they’re built into the crew playbook and certification curriculum rather than repeated.
  • Promoting continuous improvement of safety and quality management practices across all UK operations.
  • Traveling regularly within the UK, and occasionally elsewhere in Europe, to support active jobs, training sessions, and mobilizations in person.

Qualifications

  • A true generalist who’s comfortable wearing multiple hats across operations, training, logistics, and hands-on fieldwork- you don’t wait to be told which lane you’re in
  • Experience operating marine technologies directly related to Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV's), ideally with at-sea commercial experience beyond private vessel operation
  • Experience leading, training, or supervising field crews or technicians in a maritime or offshore environment
  • Comfortable teaching or mentoring others- as much at home helping run a training session as running a deck
  • Comfortable moving between hands-on survey work and remote oversight of crews performing it- this role does all of it
  • Experience working with contractors or vendors in the maritime world, ideally within the United Kingdom and/or European market
  • Troubleshooting capability on marine survey equipment, including the ability to talk a crew through a fix remotely
  • Strong communication skills; comfortable acting as the connective tissue between contractor crews, clients, and Bedrock’s core team
  • Ability to assess crew performance and job readiness against a defined standard, and to know when to step in versus let a crew work through an issue
  • Based in, or willing to relocate to, the United Kingdom, with the right to work in the United Kingdom without a visa or work permit
  • Ability to travel regularly for survey operations, including nights away from home
  • Comfortable building and implementing processes from the ground up
  • Ability to get things done creatively in imperfect scenarios
  • Unafraid to ask questions; you understand the ramifications of incomplete assumptions
  • Experience assessing time-critical decisions and understanding tradeoffs

Skills

Required:Generalist operations leadershipAUV operation and marine technologyCrew training and mentorshipContractor/vendor managementTroubleshooting and remote guidance
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Reimagining the seafloor data collection experience.

Bedrock is building smarter, more efficient ways to collect and manage seafloor data.

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