Offshore Marine Recovery Engineer - Salvage & Lifting

Stoke Space; Florida; On-site; USD 129,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity – stock options

Comprehensive benefits (medical,Dental

Life and disability insurance

401(k) with employer match

Paid time off

Holidays

Parental leave

On-site gym or wellness stipend

Dog friendly offices

Job summary

Stoke Space in Florida is seeking a Marine Recovery Engineer to locate, capture, and recover Nova flight hardware from the open ocean with a small team across Florida and Washington. You will develop CONOPS, lead offshore campaigns, and adapt vessels and rigging for unconventional recovery operations.

You will own the recovery process from CONOPS through live campaigns, overseeing safety, procedures, and coordination with vendors and authorities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on offshore operations experience, with direct involvement in salvage, marine recovery, heavy-lift, towing, or at-sea retrieval of hardware
• Demonstrated experience chartering and directing support vessels and crews for non-routine offshore operations
• Hands-on experience with offshore lifting, crane operations, rigging, and/or towing operations
• Proven ability to develop and execute recovery or salvage operations from first principles in dynamic, ambiguous conditions at sea
• Experience adapting commercial or off-the-shelf vessels and equipment to new uses in lieu of purpose-built, long-lead assets
• Bachelor's degree in naval architecture, marine engineering, mechanical engineering, or similar field
• Strong engineering fundamentals across multiple disciplines (naval architecture, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, etc.)
• Proven hands-on experience building, operating, or troubleshooting complex systems in a marine environment
• Ability to troubleshoot problems and implement solutions real time
• Ability to prioritize and execute
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to lead and follow
• Willing to relocate to Cape Canaveral, FL
• Willingness and ability to travel, including internationally, and TDY (Temporary Duty) from days to weeks offshore
• Ability to pass USSF background check for Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
• Ability to hold and maintain a TWIC card
• Ability to hold a Merchant Mariner Credential
• 10+ years of experience in a related role engineering, building, and/or operating high-performing systems in the maritime, offshore, or salvage industry
• Direct experience recovering high-value, sensitive, or non-standard objects from the water (e.g., salvage, debris field recovery, subsea search and recovery)
• A genuine interest in aerospace and a desire to contribute to spaceflight
• Experience working directly with IACS surveyors
• Experience working with U.S. Coast Guard and Port Authorities

Responsibilities

• Develop and own recovery CONOPS for retrieving flight hardware from the ocean environment across a range of sea states, scenarios, and operational conditions
• Develop and prove out unconventional at-sea capture, lifting, securing, and transit techniques for recovering floating hardware
• Plan and lead offshore recovery test and demonstration campaigns, iterating rapidly on technique and equipment to build the operational maturity needed to eventually support full recovery
• Lead vessel strategy: identify, charter, and integrate support vessels and associated offshore equipment suited to each recovery scenario
• Serve as the engineering lead for recovery hardware and systems, providing oversight across structural, mechanical, rigging, lifting, and operational disciplines
• Develop safety cases, risk assessments, and operational procedures for offshore crews
• Interface directly with external vendors, regulatory bodies, and classification societies (United States Coast Guard (USCG), American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), Det Norske Veritas (DNV), etc.)
• Author, review, and approve test and operational procedures
• Develop and manage technical specifications
• Provide technical direction for operations personnel
• Coordinate across multi-discipline engineering and operations across Florida and Washington
• Develop an innate understanding of the Nova launch vehicle and ensure recovery systems enable rapid return-to-launch

Job description

Stoke Space in Florida is seeking a Marine Recovery Engineer to locate, capture, and recover Nova flight hardware from the open ocean with a small team across Florida and Washington. You will develop CONOPS, lead offshore campaigns, and adapt vessels and rigging for unconventional recovery operations.

You will own the recovery process from CONOPS through live campaigns, overseeing safety, procedures, and coordination with vendors and authorities.