Senior Geophysical Project Manager

The Senior Geophysical Project Manager (SGPM) serves in a dual-capacity role that combines advanced geophysical expertise with project leadership and portfolio management responsibilities. Operating with minimal supervision, the SGPM is responsible for the successful execution of multiple concurrent projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives, contractual requirements, technical standards, and client expectations. As a senior member of the organization, the SGPM provides leadership, mentorship, and technical guidance while fostering collaboration among project teams, management, clients, subcontractors, and government stakeholders. The position typically consists of approximately 50% project management and 50% technical geophysical production, although the balance may vary based on project demands and business priorities.

Responsibilities

• Initiation: Support client requirements gathering, cost and schedule estimates, proposal development, project charter creation, and stakeholder engagement
• Planning: Create project portfolio, develop PM plan, prepare for procurement, kick off meeting
• Executing: Manage project documentation and procurement, oversee project delivery, implement changes, ensure quality, evaluate team performance, facilitate status meetings, and maintain stakeholder communications
• Monitoring and Controlling: Measure project performance, perform quality control, maintain project information databases, verify scope, collaborate with accounting
• Closing: Ensure final delivery of product to the client, seek feedback on the product and process, conduct project retrospective, communicate findings to Leadership, and update the lessons learned and process improvement records
• Project management, guidance and problem solving
• New business development support
• Cross-group collaborative problem solving
• Client, Consultant and Sub-contractor management
• Project Administration
• Data Processing: Process airborne magnetic and radiometric data using specialized software and tools to enhance signal-to-noise ratios, correct for environmental factors, and create interpretable datasets
• Analysis: Analyze geophysical data to identify anomalies that indicate geologic structure, mineral deposits and buried infrastructure. Interrogate data to distinguish target anomalies and trends from sensor/survey/environmental noise and processing artifacts in the geophysical data
• Quality Control: Conduct thorough quality control to ensure accuracy and reliability and troubleshoot any issues in data acquisition or processing. Ensure survey compliance to complex specifications
• Field Crew Coordination: Update and support field acquisition teams
• Deliverable Generation: Prepare final deliverables including reporting, metadata and other geophysical survey deliverables
• Research and Development: Stay current with advancements in geophysical methods and instruments and explore innovative approaches to data processing, analysis and automation in our geophysical workflows.
• This position involves remote, office-based work and requires daily remote collaboration with our geophysical team including field- and office-based team members
• Adhere to Health & Safety protocols and guidelines ensuring a safe working environment for your team

Requirements

• Exceptional client-facing communication skills & professionalism
• Initiative, independence and follow-through skills
• Problem solving and critical thinking
• Strong writing and presentation skills
• Strong technical implementation skills (process development and improvement)
• Ability to maintain a professional and positive demeanor in times of stress
• Strong project management skills including familiarity with PM processes and tools
• Strong applied geophysical background, education and experience
• Familiarity with geotechnical and geophysical sensors, instrumentation and troubleshooting
• Strong geospatial, mapping, GIS and geophysical software skills
• Master’s degree in Geophysics or related technical field
• 5+ years’ experience in a professional, technical production environment
• 3+ years’ experience in technical project management
• Eligibility to work in the United States and ability to satisfy contract-specific requirements, as applicable

Nice to have

• Ph.D. in Geophysics or related technical field
• CAPM, PMP or other Project Management degree or credential
• Experience with Oasis Montaj, Global Mapper and other geological/geophysical data analysis tools
• Experience with gravity, magnetic, electromagnetic and radiometric survey methods, particularly on moving platforms (airborne, marine, UAS)
• 5+ years’ experience managing international clients for mining, oil and gas, geotechnical, hydrological or other geological/geophysical projects
• 5+ years’ technical project management experience
• 5+ years’ experience leading teams
• Bilingual or multilingual communication skills

Benefits

• NV5 offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, life insurance, FTO, 401(k) and professional development/advancement opportunities.