Principal Naval Architect

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 Benefits

• 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