Kongsberg Maritime, a subsidiary of KONGSBERG, is a global marine technology company, providing innovative and reliable technology solutions for all marine industry sectors including merchant, offshore, subsea, and naval. Headquartered in Kongsberg, Norway, the company has manufacturing, sales, and service facilities in 34 countries. 

Kongsberg Maritime is expanding their activity within underwater acoustics and strengthening their applications support. The application engineer will support our customers with technical advice, planning and operation of our equipment for the best possible quality and efficiency. Contribution in the sales process, delivery, and engineering is also an important part of this role.

Our world class products are used in a wide range of subsea applications for inspection, survey, construction, installation, monitoring and research across the Commercial, Government and Academic market sectors. Our Underwater Acoustics products such as USBL, transponders, sonars, echo sounders are installed on ships, ROVs, USVs and AUV and typically integrated with a variety of complementary sensors and systems.

The Application Engineer role (primarily focused on POSCOM – positioning and communications) is a great opportunity for an Offshore Surveyor that wants to make the transition to working onshore whilst keeping their practical skills up to date with some occasional field work. Travel to various countries in the Americas will be required with occasional travel world-wide.

Key accountabilities:

• Keep up to date with the latest relevant technologies and methods within our domain
• Assist customers in their operation offshore, from the office and onboard vessels
• Integration of products finding solutions to meet customers’ needs
• Assist customers in developing procedures for bespoke operations and applications
• Demonstrations toward customers in the Americas and world-wide
• Produce application notes and articles
• Assist Product Managers with application knowledge
• Assist the sales team on technical bids

Qualifications and experience:

• Several years of work experience in offshore survey and operations
• Advanced understanding and operational experience with hydroacoustic positioning systems (USBL, LBL) and software, calibrations, data quality assurance as well as subsea Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) and ROV equipment integration
• Board knowledge and expertise in setup, integration and operation of surface navigation and motion/position reference systems, software and sensors
• Experience with multibeam echosounder data acquisition and processing is advantageous
• Pragmatic, self-driven and solution-oriented
• Co-operate well with management team, share knowledge and support others in the pursuit of team goals
• BSc or MSc Degree in Survey, Oceanography, Geomatics, Cybernetics, Electronics or similar
• Excellent English communication skills both oral and written
• Good presentation skills

What we can offer you:

• Competitive salary
• Health & welfare benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid vacation time
• Career growth opportunities
• Safe and collaborative culture

Throughout the pandemic, we’ve made it a top priority to keep our employees safe from COVID-19. Consistent with its duty to provide and maintain a workplace that is free of recognized hazards, Kongsberg Maritime has adopted a policy to safeguard the health and well-being of employees and their families, our customers and visitors, others who spend time in our facilities, customer installations, and the community from the risks associated with COVID-19. Candidates should be aware that Kongsberg Maritime Inc. (or KUTL) requires all U.S. new hires to be fully vaccinated. All job offers will be contingent upon providing proof of vaccination on or before the first day of employment.

Work location
The US, preferably based in Houston

See link below for relevant information on our products:

https://www.kongsberg.com/maritime/products/Acoustics-Positioning-and-Communication/

At Kongsberg, we believe in tackling challenging problems and delivering extreme performance for extreme conditions.  We do that through excellent products and services developed for delivering the greatest benefits to our customers.

For over 200 years, KONGSBERG has made solutions that enable people around the world to deliver extreme performances under extreme conditions. Today we are a world leader in several areas within maritime operations, defense, aerospace, and oil and gas industry. Our strength is to put together centers of expertise around products, technologies, and market needs.

WORLD CLASS – through people, technology, and dedication