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BMT is a leading international design, engineering, science, and risk management consultancy with a reputation for excellence. We're driven by a belief that things can always be better, safer, greener, and more efficient. We provide our customers with the capability, capacity, and confidence to enable them to make the right decisions at the right time by drawing upon the expertise of over 1,300 professionals located in UK, Europe, Asia Pacific, Australia Pacific, and the Americas.
Delivering independent, complex design and consultancy capabilities for over 37 years, we pride ourselves on being equipped to support our customers to tackle the most complex design and systems issues, and challenges, which enables the industry to deliver safer, cleaner, and more fuel-efficient shipping for the future. We draw upon a wide range of experience and expertise to provide high-quality, high value products and services across the maritime sector. The group's assets are held in beneficial .
Your next exciting job opportunity –
BMT are looking for experienced Marine Field Scientists at Senior to Principal Level in Melbourne. The role of the Senior Marine Scientist is to undertake or support the planning and implementation of field based collection, analysis and reporting. The role carries out a variety of scientific assignments requiring general familiarity with a broad range of related scientific and engineering fields in the environmental sciences.
In this role you will:
Work independently, performs technical work and exercises individual judgement and initiative (in conjunction with other senior staff).
Evaluate, select and apply standard techniques, procedures and criteria to perform technical tasks.
Acquire training and broadens experience to become qualified for more senior responsibilities, or to broaden skill set (including driving of vessels and scientific diving).
Adhere to quality, safety and environmental procedures/standards.
Liaise with service providers and clients for the purposes of service delivery.
Demonstrate strong knowledge of relevant software, systems and processes.
Work as part of a project team to deliver projects to scope and within time, cost and quality requirements.
May contribute to technical papers and industry/conference presentations.
Maintain calibration and record keeping of equipment, as applicable.
Relevant Education, Experience, and Skills:
Essential:
Bachelor’s degree in marine, coastal sciences or engineering.
>5 years' professional experience in sciences, with an emphasis of field data collection
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Willingness to undertake field work in remote and/or areas, for extended periods of time (up to several weeks).
Manual drivers licence.
Desirable:
Experience in the deployment and use of met-ocean instrumentation including ADCPs and water quality sondes.
Experience with telemetered real-time monitoring systems.
Experience with the use of autonomous vehicles (e.g. drones) for field data collection, including planning, operation and data processing.
First aid certificate.
Off-road vehicle experience.
Proficient in use of MS Excel.
Some proficiency in GIS (MapInfo, QGIS, or ArcGIS).
Experience working within the scientific, engineering or resources sector.
Flexible Work -
BMT genuinely believe everyone performs at their best when they have the flexibility to make working for BMT work best for you! We’re officially with Flexa.
We are always interested speaking to talent considering BMT as your next employer regardless of where you’re located in Australia, we have offices located in nearly every capital city - Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & Perth and offer remote and flexible work arrangements including work from home, hybrid, and flexible and part time hours. We strive to offer a range of flexible options to help support our teams in achieving a healthy work-life balance, where your personal life is just as important as your professional life.
Our Benefits -
Our are designed to ensure you have the resources you need to thrive. We value your contribution by offering the following benefits –
Competitive salary offering
A performance-related bonus scheme based on personal, and company performance.
Access to a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), comprising confidential health, legal and financial advice on a 24/7 basis.
Learning and Development opportunities to support you in achieving your business and personal objectives and releasing your full potential.
We are passionate about driving culture to embed sustainability into the core of our business.
We are a workplace that values diversity and individual talents.
Where possible, our benefits are globally harmonised to ensure equality and consistency across our collaborative teams; we also tailor benefits to ensure they remain competitive with the local geographies in which we operate.
BMT genuinely believe everyone performs at their best when they have the flexibility to make working for BMT work best for you! we are interested in speaking to skilled talent with ADF capabilities regardless of where your located within Australia, We have offices located in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & Perth and offer flexible work arrangements including work from home and hybrid.
Embracing Sustainability -
Through science, technology, and engineering, we are across the entirety of our business to make a real difference. We see global challenges as opportunities to support our customers in managing their impact and becoming more resilient. We are also on a mission to improve how we operate as a business, so that we can lead by best practice, and have a positive impact on the environment and our local communities.
Culture & Diversity -
BMT is an equal opportunities employer, committed to an where our employees feel a sense of belonging, and encourage diversity among our global workforces. Our genuine guarantee to always recruit, retain and motivate the best possible talent into our business and pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace where diversity of thought is sought after and valued.
We regularly review our policies and practices from recruitment and selection to development and progression with an equity lens to ensure that everyone regardless of their gender, gender identity, ethnicity, race, age, ability, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, nationality, life circumstance or marital status have what they need to succeed and thrive at BMT.
BMT continuously promote diversity awareness throughout the organisation at a global level through our employee learning and by recognising and celebrating our employees’ contributions, diverse background, and life experiences. Furthermore, we actively encourage everyone to improve the workplace and work together against harassment, bullying and discrimination.
Our Values –
We believe that an organisation can only be number one in its market if everyone in it works together as one. How we behave is just as important as what we do and BMT has a that are embedded into the foundation for all our activities. Trust I Innovation I Passion I Respect I Collaboration
Notice to Recruitment Agency & Related Services -
Please note BMT receive job applications exclusively via our ATS system only. BMT do not warrant or agree to any unsolicited CVs submitted via any contact method including physical hard copies left with any employee at BMT or within our operational teams. We will not progress CVs shared on a speculative basis by email, and you accept our right to pursue such candidates with no obligation to third-party terms and conditions or liability to a fee.
