Job Title: Principal Marine Mechanical Engineer Location: Portsmouth Naval Base – We offer flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
Salary: Up to £57,600 commensurate with skills and experience
What you’ll be doing:
The Warship Technical Authority (WTA) combined with the DE&S Warship Approving Authority form the Warship Design Authority and this role provides governance and oversight of Engineering decisions that affect Auxiliary Marine Systems
Provide specialist knowledge in mechanical systems engineering and undertake a range of engineering activities in line with all CSM and BAE Systems business processes and quality requirements
Co-ordinate engineering activity ensuring defined objectives are achieved, whilst continually maintaining safety, quality, and service requirements
Provide advice and support to the WTA Marine Systems DTA for their assigned platform, wider WTA Engineering team and other functions
Responsible for providing mechanical systems engineering capability across a broad set of challenges to meet the needs of COM internal projects and the customer programmes
Provide line management to junior engineers across a range of supported platforms
Be exposed to various opportunities to gain experience in working across different platforms and roles elsewhere in the wider warship support function
Your skills and experiences:
Degree qualified in Mechanical / Marine Engineering and be a Chartered Engineer with a relevant professional body (or be close to achieving this)
Good degree of knowledge of marine auxiliary and platform systems, preferably from in-service experience.
A good understanding of Ministry of Defence/Royal Navy safety, engineering and project governance processes
A good understanding of the defence maritime industry
Benefits:
You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Asset Management WTA Marine Systems Engineering Team: