Engineering Coordinator

SubSea Craft Limited; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 40,500 - 49,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 25 days + holidays

Wellbeing Day

Private healthcare

Life Assurance 4x salary

Critical illness cover

Family leave

Christmas leave

Professional development

Pension contribution

Flexible working

Inclusive culture

Offsite parking

Job summary

SubSea Craft is seeking a highly motivated Engineering Office Co-Ordinator to support our Engineering Framework. This role focuses on administration, reporting, process optimisation, KPI reporting and providing operational support to the Director of Engineering.

You will partner with engineering leaders to ensure clarity, consistency, and measurable performance across projects, while helping deliver cutting-edge maritime technology in a fast-growing company.

Qualifications

• A degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent industry experience.
• Strong understanding of product development and product lifecycle.
• Exceptional written communication skills and attention to detail.
• Proactive, organised and able to work independently with IT proficiency (Confluence/Jira).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Engineering Director to evolve the Engineering Framework and tools.
• Ensure alignment between processes, requirements and outputs across teams.
• Document, standardise and refine engineering and design processes for clarity.
• Create diagrams and visual aids to communicate complex concepts.
• Support onboarding with clear engineering guidance and reference materials.
• Track and maintain engineering KPIs such as delivery progress and milestones.
• Engage in engineering activities as needed to support team goals.

Skills

Product development understanding

Written communication

Independent working

Proactive

Organised

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Tools

Confluence

Jira

Databases

Job description

Salary: Up to £45,000 (Depending on experience)

Full Time

Permanent

Who we are: SubSea Craft is a fast growing, privately-funded, UK-based innovative maritime technology company specialising in next-generation, high-performance watercraft and systems. We operate at the intersection of advanced engineering, cutting-edge design, and user-centric innovation, delivering safe, effective, and enabling solutions for both commercial and defence applications.

What We Offer

• Annual Leave – Entitlement to 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Wellbeing Day - An additional Wellbeing Day each year to focus on personal health and wellbeing.
• Private Healthcare – Access to comprehensive private healthcare coverage to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
• Life Assurance and Critical Illness Cover – Comprehensive protection including Life Assurance (4x salary) and Critical Illness Cover for added financial security.
• Family Leave – Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Christmas Leave – A Christmas shutdown is typically observed.
• Professional Development – Commitment to ongoing learning and career growth, supported by training programmes and access to LinkedIn Learning.
• Pension Contribution – pension scheme with the option to contribute via salary sacrifice
• Flexible Working – Opportunities for flexible working arrangements to promote work–life balance.
• Inclusive Culture – A professional environment that values diversity, innovation, and collaboration.
• Offsite Parking available.

Role Overview

SubSea Craft is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented and proactive Engineering Office Co-Ordinator to help shape and advance our Engineering Framework. This is a varied and dynamic role that sits at the heart of our engineering function, enabling the delivery of cutting-edge maritime technology. This role is pivotal in ensuring engineering teams operate efficiently by owning administration, reporting, process optimisation, and delivery frameworks, KPI Reporting and operational support to the Director of Engineering.

You will act as a force multiplier for engineering leadership - ensuring teams operate with clarity, consistency, and measurable performance. You’ll play an active role in the engineering efforts that drive our mission forward.

Responsibilities Will Include

• Collaborate closely with the Engineering Director to evolve and implement the Engineering Framework and toolsets across the organisation to improve team efficiency.
• Work in close partnership with discipline Heads, and the Systems Engineering team, to ensure alignment between engineering processes, system requirements, and engineering outputs.
• Document, refine, and standardise engineering and design processes, ensuring clarity, consistency, and traceability.
• Apply principles of information architecture to organise and structure design documentation for maximum usability and accessibility.
• Create and maintain high-quality diagrams, flowcharts, and visual aids that clearly communicate complex engineering concepts.
• Support the onboarding of new team members by maintaining clear, well-structured engineering guidance and reference materials.
• Establish track and maintain engineering KPIs such as; Delivery progress, output quality and milestone tracking.
• Engage directly with engineering activities where appropriate, based on the candidate’s skills and interests, offering a varied and dynamic role within the team.

Qualifications And Experience

• A degree in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent industry experience
• Strong understanding of product development and product lifecycle
• Exceptional written communication skills and a passion for precision and detail
• Confident IT user, ideally with experience using Atlassian tools (e.g., Confluence, Jira) and databases
• Proactive, organised, and able to work independently

Note: Due to the nature of work undertaken at SubSea Craft, the selected candidate must be capable of meeting the security requirements of the position, which would include as a minimum Existing right to live and work in the UK, Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), with Security Check likely for specific projects.

Values: Our people are our greatest asset, we continually strive to provide an excellent working environment to enable our team to do their best work. We have an agile professional workforce: we are founded on the belief that our people are valued and our business is trusted, inclusive and commercially-adept.

What We Expect From You

• Teamwork, mutual respect and collaboration
• Initiative and independent working
• Honesty and integrity
• Business and commercial awareness
• Agility, adaptability and continuous development

We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive. If you require any support or adjustments to interact with us, please let us know.

• Please note that all offers of employment are conditional and subject to satisfactory DBS, driving licence and reference checks. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify candidates from employment. We will consider criminal record information alongside the wider range of evidence gathered at the application, interview, and pre-employment checking stages.

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