Make your mark with Gardline
Category: Success Stories
Publish date: 10/06/2024
Gardline is a best-in-class provider of geophysical, geotechnical, and environmental marine surveys. We offer a comprehensive package of experienced staff, dedicated vessels and state-of-the-art equipment to empower the ongoing transformation in the offshore energy market.
A wholly owned subsidiary of Boskalis, we deliver turnkey solutions and a broad portfolio of specialist activities to offshore energy companies around the world. Tailoring our services to meet our clients’ changing needs, we provide second-to-none data acquisition, processing, interpretation, and reporting. With cutting-edge technology, and highly skilled personnel, we empower our clients to lead the transformation to a more sustainable future.
Looking to transform your career? Make your Mark with Gardline
From offer to onboarding, we aim to create a great employee experience, giving you the tools, you need to thrive. When you join Gardline, you can expect onboarding training, as well as a range of informative and fun activities, giving you a firm grasp on what we’re about and what we stand for.
We currently employ over 500 members of staff in the UK and overseas, not including Marine Crew, in varying roles from Source Mechanics, Project Managers and Geophysical Engineers to Geotechnical Operators, and Marine Electronic Engineers; and that’s just to name a few!
We also provide an in-house training department, as well as apprenticeships and internships for those wishing to step into our business with minimal experience.
As a company, we acknowledge the exceptional transferable skills, experience, and value that ex-forces personnel bring to our business and industry. Gardline have therefore signed the Armed Forced Covenant. This represents a pledge that together, we acknowledge and understand that those who serve or who have served in the Armed Forces, and their families, should be treated with fairness and respect in the communities, economy, and society they serve with their lives.
It takes a diverse range of skills, experience, and talent to ‘Make Your Mark.’ So, if you’re ready to take the next step in your career just below the surface with the leading marine survey company, we’d love to hear from you!
To view our current vacancies, search ‘Gardline Limited’ on CTP RightJob!
But don’t just take our word for it – hear from one of our Services leaver employees yourself.
Jim Fitzpatrick, Geophysical Engineer in Charge
“My first real job after leaving university was the Royal Navy (RN). I had several smaller ones before this, but these were just to tide me over.
"I joined the Royal Navy as a Weapon Engineering Artificer, which would see me fast tracked after an intensive amount of trade training into becoming a section head within the weapon engineering department of wherever I wound up. After a long training term (with a 6-month interruption to take part in 2002 OP Fresco fireman strike cover), I entered the wider RN fleet. I was drafted to the Submarine service and became an engineer within the Weapons Engineering branch onboard the UKs ballistic missile submarine fleet, providing the UK strategic nuclear deterrent. During my time there I rose to be a section head, being responsible for some of the equipment and weaponry onboard.
"In 2009, my time within the RN came to an end, and so began the search for the start of the next chapter of my life. I knew I could bring in-depth and broader engineering skills, along with the leadership, motivation, and self-discipline that the military gives you. And so I began the search.
"After a long and drawn-out period of applications, interviews and emails which were not leading anywhere, I was contacted by a recruitment agency who suggested a look into the offshore world. A lengthy discussion with said agency, directed me towards Gardline. Whilst discussing the role and lifestyle, we discussed the transition from one life to another, as it were, and I was quite happy to learn that at the time there were quite a significant number of ex-UK military employed by Gardline. This in my eyes would make the transition a little smoother. Some of the new, while keeping a little of the familiar.
"So, April 27th 2009 arrives, and I walk through the door (with a little trepidation) as a civilian to begin the next part of my life. After a brief period of training and inductions, I arrive at my first vessel, to happily find myself working alongside 2 ex-RAF and 1-ex RN engineers. This made the whole transition a lot easier.
"Now, 15 years on, the rest, as they say, is history!”