Geospatial Developer

Job Title:                    Geospatial Analyst/ Developer

Grade:                        Project

Department:              Geosciences

Location:                    UK (Newcastle/Aberdeen/Glasgow/London)

Responsible to:          UK Geospatial Lead

About Global Maritime: 

Global Maritime are a global offshore engineering and consultancy firm, specialised in the provision of integrated geoscience solutions, naval architecture, structural engineering, hydrodynamics, marine warranty, marine services, and marine operations, to the offshore energy sector. Our presence on all seas ensures that we have a global perspective and local expertise. Engaged throughout the project lifecycle, Global Maritime delivers impactful, cross-discipline solutions for our clients, managing risk and delivering enhanced value. Global Maritime are actively pushing the energy transition and are committed to the health of our seas.

As a member of our Geospatial Team, you will be part of Global Maritime’s industry leading Geosciences Business Stream. You can expect to support wind farms around the world through cable risk quantification and mitigation; cable route engineering design; integrated geological ground modelling; foundation scoping and optioneering; vessel traffic assessments, AIS analysis and modelling; and multi-client seabed characterisation reports. You will also support development of new tools and products such as our 3D Cable Burial Risk Assessment, Survey Management Platform, and voxelised ground model delivery.

Role Purpose

Perform geospatial analysis, data management and engineering, and data modelling, to support offshore wind and energy projects. Support the design, development, and maintenance of geospatial applications, tools, and services. Assist with proposal writing, group marketing, R&D and technical development in accordance with Global Maritime’s quality management system.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform spatial and 3D analysis, data management and spatial planning/design of infrastructure
• Participate in engineering, consultancy, and advisory projects
• Support the development, testing, and deployment of geospatial applications, APIs, and web services, using code versioning and deployment tools such as GitLab.
• Develop tools for geospatial data processing, analysis, and visualisation.
• Build and optimise spatial databases (e.g., PostgreSQL/PostGIS, SpatiaLite).
• Implement and support the use of mapping, charting and data analysis libraries by the wider Geospatial Team (e.g., ESRI Javascript SDK, Leaflet, OpenLayers, pandas, plotly).
• Automate geospatial workflows using primarily Python (ArcPy and open-source tools e.g. GDAL, Rasterio, GeoPandas).
• Ensure high performance, scalability, and security of geospatial applications.
• Support the maintenance of a containerised environment.
• Stay updated with emerging trends in geospatial technology and open-source tools.
• Prepare cartographic deliverables such as technical charts, 3D models, and web applications
• Work collaboratively within an integrated geoscience team comprising cable engineering, engineering geology, geophysical and geotechnical disciplines
• Interface with other Business Streams within Global Maritime
• Write technical notes and contribute to reports
• Assist in the marketing of Global Maritime

Specific Skills, Knowledge and Experience required

• Bachelor’s degree in Geography, GIS, Earth Sciences, Computer Science, Geomatics, or another related discipline. Master’s degree considered advantageous.
• Initial experience in the geospatial field, with experience in marine environments, renewable energy, and geology considered advantageous.
• Graduate Member of a professional institution and working towards Chartered Geographer status
• Working ability in a range of geospatial tools (e.g., Esri Platform, QGIS, Global Mapper)
• Appreciation of programming languages (e.g., Python, Javascript, SQL, Java/C#)
• Experience with geospatial libraries (GDAL, GeoPandas, Shapely)
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills

Role Competencies

• Works as an effective member of a team and is aware of personal and wider goals
• Communicates technical information in a professional manner with colleagues and sometimes external clients
• Solves problems using efficient and robust methodologies
• Manages own workload and prioritises tasks to meet deadlines and keep within budget
• Considers commercial aspects of project delivery and achieves an appropriate balance between quality and cost
• Self-motivated and applies strong results focus to achieve targets.

Health and Safety

To uphold the Company’s Health & Safety requirements with particular regard to agreed codes of practice and safe methods of working.

Quality

To follow the group Business Management System

Equalities

To uphold and carry out the duties of the post with due regard to the Company’s ‘Equal Opportunities and Dignity at Work Policy’.

Company Values

To uphold the company values as set out in the Mission Statement.

Your duties will be as set out in the above job description but please note that the Company reserves the right to update your job description from time to time, to reflect changes in, or to, your role.  You will be consulted about any proposed changes.  The list of duties in this job description should not be regarded as exclusive or exhaustive.

There will be other duties and requirements associated with your job and, in addition, as a term of your employment you may be required to undertake various other duties as may reasonably be required by the business of you.