Physical Oceanography Technician
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The Physical Oceanography Technician supports field operations and data analysis for oceanographic research. The role plans and executes mooring deployments and recoveries, operates and maintains current-measuring instruments, and processes environmental datasets. It also contributes to interpreting coastal and estuarine processes, research reporting, interdisciplinary collaboration, student training, and field campaigns.
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Full job description
Field OperationsPlan and execute mooring deployments and recoveries in estuarine and coastal shelf environmentsOperate and maintain ADCP systems (moored configurations) and current metersSupport additional oceanographic instrumentation (e.g., CTDs, temperature/salinity loggers, meteorological sensors)Participate in small boat and research vessel operations under variable field conditionsData Processing and AnalysisProcess and quality-control ADCP datasets (e.g., velocity profiles, backscatter)Manage and analyze time-series environmental data from moorings and shipboard surveysDevelop reproducible workflows for data organization, QA/QC, and visualizationContribute to the interpretation of circulation patterns, stratification, and mixing processesCollaboration and ReportingWork closely with interdisciplinary teams (biogeochemists, ecologists, modelers)Contribute to reports, manuscripts, and data productsAssist with training students and supporting field campaigns
How this job compares
Set against the 1,112 open Field Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$87–108K/yr21 salary ranges
- US median$25–30/hr251 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 118 open Field Operations jobs in Texas and 1,112 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- Kiewit14 open
- Skanska5 open
- Bechtel Corporation4 open
- Experience
- Field Operations postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (703 postings).
- Education
- 116 of the 1,112 open Field Operations jobs (10%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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