Superintendent – AUV/ROV

What makes this role different?

• Defence subsea capability using advanced Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) and Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) systems.
• Combine shore-based technical, safety and people leadership with periodic offshore deployment
• Shape the future integration of the co-located AUV and ROV teams, facilities and support arrangements at HMNB Devonport.
• Influence capability acquisition, introduction into service, in-service support and long-term strategy.
• Join a highly respected multidisciplinary team and receive structured development to support the role’s formal technical and safety accountabilities.
• Long term career stability, exceptional pension, and structured development

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What will your job include?

As a Superintendent within SALMO Seabed Operations (SBO), you will be the principal shoreside leader accountable for the safe deployment and support of an allocated subsea capability. The appointment is initially expected to focus on our AUV capability, while working across the integrated AUV and ROV organisation to improve resilience, common engineering practices, training, infrastructure and operational delivery.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team and ensure that people, equipment, maintenance, spares, software, technical documentation, support contracts and facilities remain safe, effective and ready to deploy. Working closely with Party Chiefs, engineers, surveyors/analysts, project teams, Defence customers and industry partners, you will provide senior technical advice and support planned, directed and emergency-response operations.

Formal Equipment Authority and Safety Responsible accountabilities will be subject to competence assessment and the appropriate letters of delegation. The role includes periodic offshore deployment, UK and overseas travel, and occasional support at short notice.

We champion flexible ways of working. Whilst onshore, regular in-person on site attendance is required (this is expected to be approximately 60% of your working week) to promote the benefits of face-to-face collaboration alongside flexibility of hours to support work-life balance and business need. Initially, you may be expected to attend more frequently to familiarise yourselves with the site, the team, and your role.

The role is operationally critical and comes with additional allowances under SALMO Terms and Conditions, https://bit.ly/SALMO-Terms-and-Conditions reflecting the importance and intensity of the work you’ll be doing.

For clarity, the SALMO RG allowances you’ll be eligible for:

• Contactable Allowance £3,191.00 pa
• Sponsored Reserve Annual Bounty is: Year 1: £583.00, Year 2: £1,290.00, Year 3 & 4: £1,992.00, Year 5: £2,308.00
• For deployed periods disturbance allowance applies: Week day - £94 per day. Weekend - £158 Per day
• Sea-going-leave (SGL) is accrued at a rate of 4 Leave Days for each 7 days embarked (additional to your Annual Leave Entitlement)

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the Engineering team, support and development of the allocated AUV or ROV capability, ensuring that it remains safe, available, supportable and operationally ready to deploy onto Commercial Vessels.
• Act, subject to competence assessment and formal delegation, as the Authority and Safety Responsible for allocated systems; own the system safety case and evidence the Safe to Operate position.
• Lead engineering assurance across acquisition, acceptance, introduction into service, in-service support, upgrade and disposal, including configuration, maintenance, spares, software, documentation and obsolescence management.
• Lead, line-manage and develop a multidisciplinary team, maintaining competence, wellbeing, training and readiness for planned and emergency operations.
• Manage delegated budgets, forecasts, support-contract outputs, annual training and operational programmes, and long-term capability requirements.
• Provide real-time shoreside support and senior technical advice to deployed teams and stakeholders, including Designated Person Ashore responsibilities where appointed, and deploy offshore when required.
• Lead integration of the AUV and ROV teams at HMNB Devonport, developing shared facilities, support, training and working practices while retaining clear capability-specific accountabilities.
• Contribute as a SALMO Head of Department, supporting delivery of customer requirements, workforce resilience and continuous organisational improvement.

Person specification
To be successful with your application, you'll need to show that you meet the following essential criteria:

• Lead Criterion – Have experience providing technical advice at a senior level and leading delivery of successful engineering outcomes in multidisciplinary projects.
• Have a wide-ranging depth and breadth of technical experience in subsea activities or marine engineering.
• Experience managing complex / challenging work with evidence of technical problem solving and risk management.

And

• An Engineering, Science, Technical, Technology or Marine based qualification at RQF