This is a hands-on position combining deep technical capability with leadership, engineering assurance, and operational support across the full project lifecycle.
What You’ll Do
- Act as technical authority on projects, owning key engineering decisions
- Set and enforce engineering standards, methods, and best practice
- Review and approve:
- Structural design and FEA
- Motions and marine analysis
- Lift plans, method statements, and execution procedures
- Identify and manage technical and operational risk
- Challenge unsafe assumptions — and stop work where required
- Support tenders, planning, and live onshore/offshore operations
- Provide fast, practical problem-solving during critical activities
- Mentor engineers and raise overall engineering quality
- Interface directly with clients, vessels, and third-party reviewers
- ANSYS (or equivalent) — structural and lifting analysis
- OrcaFlex — static and dynamic marine analysis
- Strong naval architecture fundamentals:
- Stability (intact and damaged)
- Motions, seakeeping, operability
- Tow, transport, lifting, and offshore execution
- Experience delivering:
- Transport and sea fastening
- Load-out and heavy lifting
- Marine operations planning and execution
- Confident defending engineering decisions with clients and marine warranty surveyors
- Degree in Naval Architecture (or closely related)
- 6+ years’ relevant marine/offshore engineering experience
- Proven hands-on delivery using ANSYS and OrcaFlex
- Experience supporting live, time-critical offshore or onshore operations
- Strong grasp of engineering risk management and execution planning
- Ability to independently produce, check, and approve engineering deliverables
- Natural technical leader and mentor
- Full UK driving licence
- Chartered Engineer (or working toward it)
- Heavy lift, transport, towing, or cable installation experience
- Experience acting as engineering signatory or technical authority
- Exposure to marine warranty surveys or technical audits
- International project experience
- Genuine technical authority — not diluted by layers of approval
- Complex, high-value projects where engineering decisions matter
- End-to-end ownership from concept through execution
- Lean, practical environment with minimal bureaucracy
- Strong technical team and high engineering standards
- Competitive package aligned with responsibility and experience