Maritime Engineering Lead: Autonomy & System Integration

UForce; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

UFORCE in London is building its UK engineering capability and seeks a Head of Maritime Engineering to lead and scale the function, delivering technical readiness of maritime platforms and coordinating across vessel, mechanical, electrical, and autonomy systems.

This hands-on leadership role requires strong technical judgement, momentum, and the ability to align teams, suppliers, and customers to meet challenging programme goals.

Qualifications

• Chartered Engineer status or equivalent professional credentials.
• Experience with Workboat Code Edition 3 or similar frameworks, including vessel classification, certification and assurance.
• Engineering leadership experience across marine vessels, naval systems, maritime platforms or maritime autonomy.
• Experience integrating autonomy, communications, sensors, payloads or mission systems onto maritime platforms.
• Strong understanding of vessel systems, integration, test, maintenance, engineering governance, configuration, technical risk and safe operation.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams in shipyards, dockyards, integration facilities, test sites or similar operational environments.
• Experience delivering complex engineering programmes from requirements through integration, test and deployment.
• Strong technical judgement and stakeholder skills, with the ability to make pragmatic decisions and deliver at pace in an ambiguous environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale UFORCE’s UK maritime engineering capability, building a high-performing multidisciplinary team.
• Own the engineering delivery, technical integrity and operational readiness of our maritime platforms.
• Lead the integration of vessel, mechanical, electrical, autonomy, communications and mission systems.
• Establish practical standards across design, integration, test, configuration, maintenance, technical risk, certification and assurance.
• Turn programme and customer requirements into clear engineering priorities and executable plans.
• Work with programme, product and operational teams, suppliers and customers to solve complex engineering challenges at pace.
• Shape the longer-term maritime engineering strategy and technical capability as UFORCE scales.

Skills

Chartered Engineer status

Workboat Code Edition 3 experience

Engineering leadership

Autonomy systems integration

Vessel systems knowledge

Multi-disciplinary leadership

Programme delivery

Job description

UFORCE in London is building its UK engineering capability and seeks a Head of Maritime Engineering to lead and scale the function, delivering technical readiness of maritime platforms and coordinating across vessel, mechanical, electrical, and autonomy systems.

This hands-on leadership role requires strong technical judgement, momentum, and the ability to align teams, suppliers, and customers to meet challenging programme goals.