Company Background
OpenHydro is a technology business that designs and manufactures marine turbines to generate renewable energy from tidal streams. The company's vision is to deploy farms of tidal turbines under the world's oceans - silently and invisibly generating electricity at no cost to the environment. For more information visit www.openhydro.com.
Scope of position:
- Member of OpenHydro’s site resource analysis team, requiring regular collaboration with the Engineering and Projects teams.
- Principally responsible for the analysis of oceanographic site data from vessel-mounted Acoustic Doppler Profiler (ADP) surveys and bottom-mounted ADP surveys.
- The role will also involve analysis of performance data from OpenHydro’s Open-Centre Turbine.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
- Planning and execution of marine surveys using OpenHydro’s ADP equipment.
- Numerical processing and analysis of metocean data.
- Processing and analysis of data from OpenHydro’s turbines.
- Creation and development of data analysis tools, methods and software.
- Flexibility in the role is a key requirement, particularly when working to tight client or internal deadlines.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Minimum experience of 2 years working with ADP data.
- Strong skills in MATLAB and Microsoft Excel.
- Ability to interpret data and propose innovative solutions for our business.
- Practical and innovative approach to work.
- Strong presentation and report writing skills.
- Enthusiastic, positive and proactive nature, excellent work ethic & flexibility.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and team working skills.
- Willingness to travel to project locations.
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Marine operations experience.
- Familiarity with GIS software.
- Experience of working in the tidal stream energy industry.
- Knowledge of renewable energy systems and the marine environment.
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