Marine Engineer-Jobs in Großbritannien

Principal Marine Engineer

Our client is an established engineering consultancy recognised for tackling the most complex challenges in marine and defence sectors. With projects spanning the entire lifecycle of naval vessels, they provide technical assurance, design analysis, and support services across both UK and international markets.

They promote an inclusive and flexible work environment, offering a wide range of employee benefits, including private family medical coverage, enhanced pension and parental policies, and support for personal development and wellbeing. This role offers the chance to work on high-impact submarine programmes, contribute to future design concepts, and support strategic growth within the sector.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams and provide technical assurance on submarine-related projects.
• Support the development of marine engineering capability and customer relationships within the UK and overseas.
• Drive delivery of marine engineering aspects across complex engineering challenges, feasibility studies, and design analyses.
• Contribute to broader consultancy projects and R&D into future submarine concepts and tools.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and support opportunity development across the business.
• Participate in travel to client and office sites as required, including occasional overseas trips.

Qualifications & Experiences

• Chartered Engineer status with a recognised professional engineering body.
• Strong technical leadership experience in the submarine domain, preferably service in the UK Royal Navy’s Mechanical/Marine Engineering specialism.
• Alternatively, significant technical expertise in submarine Nuclear Propulsion and Mechanical systems and familiarity with UK MoD submarine processes and clients.
• Excellent communication skills, integrity, and the ability to influence and engage with both internal teams and external customers.
• Demonstrated leadership in developing others and maintaining a respectful, diverse, and collaborative culture.
• Understanding of full platform lifecycle from concept to disposal is advantageous.
• Enthusiastic and adaptable, with a willingness to learn and grow.

Job Title: Principal Marine Engineer
Location: Bath, UK
Salary: Circa £70,000
Working: Hybrid (with flexibility and some travel to customer sites required)

Keywords: Submarine Engineering, Mechanical Systems, Nuclear Propulsion, Technical Leadership, Royal Navy, Chartered Engineer, SC Clearance, Marine Engineering, Defence Consultancy, Lifecycle Support

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.

Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet this criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level.

This is a permanent position