Job Title: Senior Naval Architect – Vessel Analysis

Location: Portsmouth

Reports to: Technical Manager

Candidates must be eligible to live/work in the UK.

Overview of Role:

To undertake project work and oversee technical performance, including engineering, design and analysis in support of the company’s Naval Architecture and engineering contracts. The job may require work at other offices, also at client or subcontractor premises and to undertake occasional business trips to vessels, hydrodynamic test facilities and shipyards in the UK and overseas.

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

Client and Stakeholder Engagement

• Liaise with clients to interpret their needs and produce technical proposals that fulfil the client’s requirements
• Understand and analyse key project success criteria and propose solutions that balance those with potential technical risks and available budget
• Lead or contribute to technical proposals to our clients, including scope, costing and timescales.

Technical Delivery

• Act as technical lead for tasks covering the assessment of vessel performance (powering and motions), including reporting progress, budget/costs and technical risks
• Support wider business team members to provide advice and guidance on technical matters in your area of expertise
• Interface with the wider ship design team to provide practical, actionable advice which supports the wider project delivery
• Act on initiative to develop solutions to technical challenges that suit the business’ ways of working and develop our capabilities
• Act as a leader or support a team for model tests, sea trials, and other site surveys
• Report technical work undertaken in an appropriate style to a range of audiences including internal stakeholders, technical client representatives and our clients’ senior management teams

Project Management & Coordination

• Manage subcontractors including scoping, performance monitoring and reviewing outputs across a range of disciplines including test model design/production, specialist monitoring capabilities and technical analysis.
• Ensure that all proposed works to be carried out in the office, workshop, testing facilities and onboard vessels are carried out to best industry and statutory standards in a safe and cost effective manner
• Ensure that all work is performed, reviewed, checked and approved in accordance with the company’s procedures

Knowledge and Qualifications:

Essential

• Ability to travel in the UK and overseas at short notice
• BEng (Hons), MEng, MSc or equivalent in Naval Architecture or other relevant subject with relevant industry experience
• Applicant should have a solid engineering background, with demonstrable knowledge of hydrodynamic performance through simulation, model testing and sea trials

Desirable

• Full UK Driving Licence
• Experience of leading CFD performance assessments, model testing, and ship-board trials
• Practical experience of developing bespoke trials instrumentation and acquisition software
• Knowledge of dynamic positioning assessment methods and design improvement
• Knowledge of noise and vibration measurements and analysis
• Experience of internationally recognised performance and sea trials analysis methods, e.g. ITTC and ISO.
• Chartered, or working towards Chartered Member of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects or similar marine related professional body
• Awareness of Classification society and Flag state rules and regulations

Desirable Software

• Proficient in use of Microsoft Office applications including Excel, Word, Project etc. and other software such as AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, and SolidWorks
• Experience of Python coding for data acquisition and analysis
• Familiarity with FineMarine, openFOAM, or equivalent
• Familiarity with 2D/3D CAD software