Toby Harrison

Head of Offshore Survey Management at Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions

Toby has over 14 years’ experience in offshore site investigation and asset inspection and has been involved with numerous projects in different work environments, from nearshore and intertidal areas to full ocean depth in different areas of the world. He has been employed as Geophysicist, Party Chief, Project Manager and Client Representative. Working within these roles has enabled him to develop an excellent and in-depth understanding of multi-role survey vessel operations, from vessel mobilisation and survey data acquisition to survey completion and collation of client deliverables as well as an understanding of the contractual and commercial detail of projects.

Whilst working onboard different vessels, he has completed onboard data acquisition, processing, interpretation, and field reporting. When not working offshore, he has gained experience of compiling the final charting and reporting deliverables. He has also been involved with the contractual and commercial aspects of projects whilst keeping an active input to technical considerations.

Toby is experienced with project management and team leadership, having been responsible for teams up to 40 personnel of different technical disciplines, planning operations and logistics to ensure timely and cost-effective services to the client whilst ensuring safe operations and not compromising product quality.

Highlights and accomplishments of his recent career have been to take a new build vessel and develop the team and systems onboard to a level that it was re

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  • Head of Offshore Survey Management

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