Hybrid Senior Naval Architect

at Babcock International Group

• Job title: Senior Naval Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: £51,941 - £63,443 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Plymouth, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Naval Architect designing marine solutions for shipbuilding programs. Collaborating with teams on technical issues and ensuring compliance with engineering standards at Babcock.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and produce substantiation reports for marine solutions throughout all design lifecycle phases.
• Liaise with design teams and stakeholders to ensure coordination and functionality of system designs.
• Develop innovative design solutions with robust engineering substantiation.
• Provide solutions to manufacturing and installation issues by resolving technical and production queries.
• Support design reviews and ensure compliance with recognised standards.

Requirements

• Proven naval architecture design experience from a highly regulated industry.
• Proficiency with analytical software such as Paramarine, NAPA, FORAN, Maxsurf, FEA, CFD and/or CAD.
• Experience contributing to design reviews.
• Ideally degree-qualified in an engineering discipline (HND/HNC with extensive experience considered).
• Membership of a relevant institution (e.g., RINA, IET, IMechE, IMarEst) and Chartered or Incorporated status (or working towards).
• The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.