Principal Naval Architect

ManpowerGroup Talent Solutions; Gosport; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading defense technology company as a Principal Naval Architect, where you will leverage your expertise in hydrodynamics and engineering to lead vital projects. This role at our advanced facilities in Gosport involves overseeing multidisciplinary teams and ensuring high-quality delivery on critical programs. We're looking for a strategic thinker with a strong background in engineering and coding to tackle challenging problems and drive innovation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary project teams.
• Strong understanding of hydrodynamics or adjacent skills.
• Previous coding experience, preferably with MATLAB, Simulink, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering and technical activities for the programme.
• Technically lead and deliver hydrodynamic model experiments.
• Ensure delivery of projects to agreed quality, timelines, and budget.

Skills

Hydrodynamics

Project Leadership

Coding

Education

BEng / MEng in Aeronautical Engineering

BEng / MEng in Naval Architecture

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

Python

Job description

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Are you ready to be part of the future? 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 the company'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 then 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Defense and Space Manufacturing and Engineering Services

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