Maritime Operations Team Leader

Job Description: Maritime Operations Team Leader

At SYOS, we’re building the next generation of autonomous vehicles across air, land and sea. Our UK maritime team is growing, and we’re looking for a Maritime Operations Team Leader to provide day-to-day direction to maritime operational personnel and coordinate the resources required to deliver activities safely, efficiently and professionally.

The role supports demonstrations, trials, training, customer engagements, exercises, commissioning activities, and operational deployments involving vessels, USVs and associated equipment. You will have primary responsibility for operational planning, personnel coordination, logistics, resources, and delivery.

The role will involve regular travel within the UK and internationally to support demonstrations, trials, training activities, exhibitions, customer events, commissioning, and operational deployments.

What You'll Do

• Lead and coordinate the day-to-day activities of the Maritime Operations Team, ensuring effective planning, resourcing, and delivery.
• Plan and coordinate maritime activities, ensuring the required personnel, vessels, USVs, equipment, and facilities are available and ready.
• Allocate maritime personnel to activities in consultation with the Chief USV Pilot and relevant Event Leads.
• Act as Event Lead where required, coordinating the safe and effective delivery of operational activities.
• Ensure activities are delivered in accordance with company procedures, risk assessments, maritime requirements, and health & safety standards.
• Work closely with the Chief USV Pilot to plan and resource USV demonstrations, trials, training, and deployments.
• Ensure suitably qualified and competent personnel are available for planned USV activities and support operational readiness.
• Work with the Commissioning Team Leader to coordinate the transition of vessels and USVs from commissioning, testing, and sea trials into operational service.
• Maintain operational schedules, readiness trackers, and activity plans, identifying dependencies, constraints, and resource conflicts.
• Coordinate operational logistics including travel, accommodation, transportation, site access, launch, and recovery arrangements.
• Ensure operational briefings, risk assessments, method statements, procedures, and other required documentation are in place.
• Monitor operational performance and provide regular readiness updates, escalating risks, issues, and resource constraints as appropriate.
• Work closely with Engineering and Commissioning to provide operational input into trials, vessel, and USV development, modifications, and technical issues.
• Support customer demonstrations, trials, training, and deployments, providing professional maritime leadership and operational input where required.
• Coordinate with customers, suppliers, harbour authorities, regulators, venues, and other external stakeholders to support successful maritime activities.
• Ensure operational feedback, lessons learned, and actions are captured, communicated, and followed through to completion.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational processes, procedures, and ways of working, promoting consistency and best practice across maritime operations.
• Support the continued development and growth of SYOS's maritime operational capability, while promoting company values, culture, and high standards of safety and professionalism.