Salary: £42,507 plus excellent benefits

Location: Taunton, Somerset, South West

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time

 

The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) is recruiting hydrographic surveyors for key programme /project management and client representative roles. These roles are pivotal to support UKHO’s partnering and engagement objectives as well as increased programme activity and capacity building activity relating to hydrography, hydrographic governance, and policy implementation. Whether in a programme management or a client representative role, you will play a key role in exploiting hydrographic opportunities in order to deliver our strategic objectives as our remit continues to evolve.

If you have in-depth hydrographic surveying experience, with a passion for using seabed mapping to improve outcomes for people and the environment, the UKHO would like to hear from you. An appreciation of the wider utility of updated bathymetry, particularly in the context of developing nations will also be key. You will also require demonstrable experience of managing operational delivery.

UKHO is a great place in which to explore your career potential. While our projects are career-defining, the work/life balance that we can offer you is equally exceptional. From flexitime, flexible working, an award-winning office environment and a generous annual leave allowance of 34.5 days including public holidays, the opportunities open to you here are hard to beat.

For a full job description, including the competencies you will be assessed on in your application, please click the apply button to be taken to the Civil Service Jobs website. 

Closing date: 11:55 pm on 29 November 2021.

UKHO embraces diversity and promotes inclusion and equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident employer, which includes offering a guaranteed interview to candidates with disabilities, providing they meet the minimum selection criteria.

Selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit, on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles.

 

Apply link: https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jcode=1754050