Principal Naval Architect

JR United Kingdom; Southampton; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading technology company as a Principal Naval Architect, where you will leverage your expertise in hydrodynamics and engineering to lead critical projects. With opportunities to work at state-of-the-art facilities, you will provide leadership and technical oversight in a team-focused environment. The role offers a competitive salary and a dynamic workplace that values innovation and experience.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering and technical activities of the programme.
• Deliver hydrodynamic model experiments.
• Ensure projects are delivered to quality, timescales, and budget.

Skills

Leadership

Hydrodynamics

Engineering

Coding

Education

BEng / MEng in Aeronautical Engineering

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.