Subsea Marine Engineering Specialist

Why this job matters

This role can be based in any of the following locations: Birmingham, Bristol, Bude, Goonhilly or London with potential International and UK Travel.

BT relies on submarine cables to form the backbone of the global transmission network delivering services and products to BT’s multinational corporate customers. 97% of BT’s international traffic is carried over submarine cables. BT also relies on submarine cables to deliver domestic services within the UK including superfast broadband meeting UK consumer and business customers expectations.

This job ensures that BT subsea cable assets are procured and operated in way that meets BT’s customers’ requirements from a marine and route engineering perspective and adhere to relevant marine safety policies that you will manage on behalf of the Subsea vertical within Specialist Platforms. You will ensure that BT’s operational and offshore liaison obligations are met, leading, by collaborating with and supporting colleagues with those responsibilities, including any contracted support

What you’ll be doing

• Creating and implementing technical solutions for the installation or repair of subsea systems, taking into account how these solutions impact systems or processes internally and/or externally.
• Overseeing the practical implementation of BT’s subsea marine strategy in line with BT’s overall strategy and customer requirements.
• Ensuring BT’s Subsea cable assets are procured in line with customer requirements in a cost-effective manner, including representing BT and performing lead roles in international consortia
• Ensuring that all marine related aspects of BT’s subsea cables are engineered to ensure operational efficiency and H&S compliance, including making key decisions on engineering and delivery.
• Ensuring that BT’s subsea cable assets are operated and maintained in a safe and cost effective manner and aligned to BT subsea policies, customer, legal and regulatory requirements.
• Identifies opportunities to improve standards of practice, continuously enhancing ways of working.
• Monitoring supplier performance and working closely with suppliers to understand the impact of developments within the subsea industry on BT
• Working flexibly across multiple projects and sites, and travel internationally, sometimes at short notice
• Supporting a 24/7 call roster (1 in 4) and work offshore (up to 30 days per year) or at remote sites.
• Mentoring and support as a technical resource for Engineering professionals and team members, helping to improve the team’s agility, abilities and processes.

The Skills you'll need

• Operational excellence - You identify what resources will be required to deliver operational activities. You organise the right resources to maximise operational performance and add value, escalating requirements in non-standard situations to maintain exceptional results and service.
• Engineering excellence - You use advanced knowledge of engineering so that you or your team can safely build, monitor, upgrade and repair networks, services, infrastructure and products. You contribute to a zero-harm culture.
• Issue Management - You research and recommend solutions to resolve routine problems. You escalate complex or unexpected issues as needed.
• Product and service knowledge - You continuously build your understanding of infrastructure, products, services and complex offerings. You share knowledge with your team and tailor solutions to meet the unique needs of the customer.
• Improvement focus - You question and challenge the way things are done and work with others to make improvements. You build your understanding of the end-to-end processes to which your own role and the wider team contributes.
• Be agile - You use your knowledge of best practice to collaborate with peers across the business in different ways.
• Be commercially aware – You understand the financial impacts of the technical decisions you make and are able to align them to any project or business budget drivers

Experience you'll have

• Subsea Cable Marine Technology: shallow-water and beach works planning, survey, engineering installation.
• Good knowledge of the repair and installation of subsea assets, preferably subsea cable assets.
• Direct working on subsea infrastructure type engineering projects either onshore or offshore, particularly beach landing and shore-end implementation or repair.
• Managed departmental costs when cost was under pressure.
• Managed a cross-disciplinary team to deliver a successful outcome.
• Made decisions in ambiguous situations using incomplete information or differing opinions (e.g. divided team loyalties or unclear deliverables)
• Working unsupervised yet collaboratively within a complex multi-disciplinary engineering team
• Typically, five years of working in a subsea cable environment on any of marine, civil or system engineering related activities
• Working in an international arena
• Degree or equivalent in an engineering subject
• Chartered Engineer or commitment to become one
• Member of a relevant professional organisation or equivalent. E.g. Institution of Engineering & Technology

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.