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Essential
The Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel (SQEP) for the Senior Naval Architect role shall have the following:
1. Degree qualification in Naval Architecture at either Bachelor’s or Masters’ level.
2. Professionally recognised as a Chartered Engineer with the Royal Institution of Naval Architects or equivalent, with 5 or more years’ experience working at that level.
3. Have 5 or more years’ recent relevant experience of working on warship concept design studies, especially surface combatants;
4. Recent experience (last 5 years) of working on naval ship studies and design activity during ship acquisition. Specifically, translating customer ideas and capability requirements, into design solutions and exploiting Defence Standards to shape/define design elements;
5. A good working knowledge of Paramarine for ship design and analysis (the main Naval Architectural design tool used at NDP), especially as relevant to sizing studies, stability and strength analysis using parametric models;
6. Knowledge of the impacts of scaling of a warship’s design in terms of size (length, beam and draft), stability, operability etc;
7. Ability, experience and proof of producing high quality, well-structured and logically written reports within tight timescales that clearly communicate an understanding of the task, the work ...