Principal Marine Mechanical Engineer Portsmouth

Salary: Up to £57,600 commensurate with skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• The Warship Technical Authority (WTA) combined with the DE&S Warship Approving Authority form the Warship Design Authority and this role provides governance and oversight of Engineering decisions that affect Auxiliary Marine Systems
• Provide specialist knowledge in mechanical systems engineering and undertake a range of engineering activities in line with all CSM and BAE Systems business processes and quality requirements
• Co-ordinate engineering activity ensuring defined objectives are achieved, whilst continually maintaining safety, quality, and service requirements
• Provide advice and support to the WTA Marine Systems DTA for their assigned platform, wider WTA Engineering team and other functions
• Responsible for providing mechanical systems engineering capability across a broad set of challenges to meet the needs of COM internal projects and the customer programmes
• Provide line management to junior engineers across a range of supported platforms
• Be exposed to various opportunities to gain experience in working across different platforms and roles elsewhere in the wider warship support function

Your skills and experiences:

• Degree qualified in Mechanical / Marine Engineering and be a Chartered Engineer with a relevant professional body (or be close to achieving this)
• Good degree of knowledge of marine auxiliary and platform systems, preferably from in-service experience.
• A good understanding of Ministry of Defence/Royal Navy safety, engineering and project governance processes
• A good understanding of the defence maritime industry

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Asset Management WTA Marine Systems Engineering Team: