General information

Working time: Full time

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

City: Gosport

Number of hours per week: 37

Gross salary: 70000

Timeframe: Yearly

Description

:

As a Principal Naval Architect you will use your excellent understanding of hydrodynamics and engineering to support the team in solving our customers’ important problems. The programme of work you will be leading is strategically important for our customer, and your knowledge and skills will allow us to adapt the delivery of mission critical capabilities and understand, confront and overcome new challenges.

Required skills:

  • Proven experience leading multidisciplinary project teams
  • Strong understanding of hydrodynamics or adjacent skills
  • Previous coding experience, preferably with MATLAB, Simulink, or Python

 

Essential qualifications for the Principal Naval Architect:

  • BEng / MEng in Aeronautical Engineering or Naval Architecture, or a relevant engineering discipline

 

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you. 

 

This role is 37 hours per week based at either our Gosport or Bristol site.

Your responsibilities:

Day-to-day, you’ll provide leadership and strategic oversight over several areas of the business. You will also technically support the free running and captive model experiments within the company's world-class Haslar facilities. 

Your responsibilities will include:
  • Effectively leading the engineering and technical activities of the programme
  • Technically lead and deliver hydrodynamic model experiments
  • Ensuring projects / programmes are delivered to agreed quality, timescales and budget
  • Creating, modifying and implementing code to allow mathematical modelling assessments to be undertaken
  • Ensuring high levels of safety and governance are applied to all projects / programmes

What we offer:

  • Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
  • Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
  • Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
  • Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
  • We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
  • Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community