Position Summary:
The Metocean Systems Technician role focuses on the design, integration, and testing of real-time Metocean (meteorological and oceanographic) monitoring systems, development of near-real-time data management and web-based display systems, preparation and operation of Metocean instrumentation, and assisting with field operations.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support Engineers in the design, integration, and testing of real-time Metocean monitoring systems on surface buoys, subsea mooring, seafloor platforms, or surface structures.
- Support Engineers in the development and maintenance of real-time Metocean monitoring systems software and real time data displays on PC and web platforms.
- Support maintenance and preparation of the Woods Hole Group and broader CLS Group Metocean measurement equipment and systems.
- Support for field operations involving the deployment, operation and maintenance, and recovery of Metocean measurement and monitoring equipment. Sea time will be required. Foreign travel is likely.
- Providing support to other Teams within the Energies and Infrastructures Business Unit in collecting, analyzing, and presenting Metocean data.
Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities Required:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship.
- Experience testing, configuring, uploading data from meteorological and oceanographic equipment and instrumentation.
- Basic knowledge of circuit analysis and able to read electrical wiring diagrams, and the safe use of multimeter, oscilloscope, soldering tools and power-tools.
- Experience using a variety of power supplies for metocean equipment including battery and solar power systems.
- Experience communicating with sensors over RS232/422/485 protocol, SDI12, or similar.
- Experience using satellite, GPRS, radio and Bluetooth data transmission systems.
The individual should also have strong software and coding skills that they are keen to use and develop, including:
- Expertise in C#, Python, Matlab, SQL, HTML and Javascript ideally related to metocean data collection, management, processing and presentation (knowledge of C, PHP, Perl, R would also be of benefit) command-line tools would also be a benefit).
- Experience working in Windows and Linux environments.
- Experience writing database applications using .NET Framework, designing small databases on Microsoft SQL Server and managing databases and database permissions.
- Web development experience also highly desirable.
Salary range: $50,000.00 To $60,000.00 Annually
