Principal Naval Architect

QinetiQ Limited; Bristol; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Principal Naval Architect, where you will lead innovative projects that shape the future of defence technology. This role offers the chance to work with cutting-edge tools and collaborate with brilliant minds in the field. You will be responsible for overseeing engineering activities and conducting hydrodynamic experiments, ensuring that projects meet the highest standards of quality and safety. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this organization fosters a unique environment where your ideas can flourish. If you're passionate about engineering and ready to tackle complex challenges, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Generous holiday allowance

Health Cash Plan

Private Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Employee discount portal

Volunteering Opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary project teams.
• Strong understanding of hydrodynamics and coding experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering and technical activities of the programme.
• Deliver hydrodynamic model experiments and ensure project quality.

Skills

Hydrodynamics

Project Leadership

MATLAB

Simulink

Python

Education

BEng/MEng in Aeronautical Engineering

BEng/MEng in Naval Architecture

Tools

Mathematical Modelling Software

Job description

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow; we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations, our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Principal Naval Architect at our Gosport or Bristol site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role
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.

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 QinetiQ’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

Essential experience of the Principal Naval Architect:

• 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, we would like to hear from you.

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

Our facilities at the Haslar Marine Technology Park are state-of-the-art, including our ocean basin rotating arm and marine towing tank, offering an unparalleled environment for testing and refining designs. Our marine technology offers our global customers a service to deliver constrained hydrodynamic model tests of surface ships, submarines, offshore structures, and renewable energy devices.

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines, and experiences enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued, and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture: www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq

• 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

Our Recruitment Process

We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels valued, heard, and supported. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed; applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which means factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.