Principal Naval Architect

Job Title:                     Principal Naval Architect

Location:                     Devonport, Plymouth, + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF59829

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Principal Naval Architect at our Plymouth site.

The Warship Technical Authority is a unique, exciting, and critical team who operate on behalf of the Ministry of Defence, customer acting as their technical agents at the waterfront ensuring their Warships are Safe and Functional. The Plymouth Warship Technical Authority Hub is a multidisciplined team supporting Legacy Classes (Type 23, Amphibious vessel, and single role mine hunters), Type 26 and future classes as they come online.

The role

As a Principal Naval Architect, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary.

Day to day, you’ll serve a pivotal role in the delivery of the core Warship Technical Authority outputs, responsible for interpreting customer requirements, setting and implementing constructive repair policy and leading and supporting two highly anticipated transformation projects.

• You’ll provide provision of technical advice to MoD authorities and Service Providers to ensure platform capability is functional and available.
• Manage and coordinate Classification Society activities to ensure platforms remain in class.
• Support the MoD with material state management, defining and proposing constructive repair solutions, ensuring they are suitable, cost effective and will provide reliable through life performance.
• Completing technical investigations that support the capability and availability of warships.
• Manage the Design Change process, as required, through effective requirements definition, query responses and acceptance of designs and installations.
• Manage and support the Transformation projects, ensuring surveys are scheduled, completed, and reviewed, to enable a greater material state understanding across the platforms.

This role is full, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3-4 days in the office/onsite and 1-2 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Principal Naval Architect

• Proven structural design experience from a highly regulated industry.
• Experience with appropriate analytical software such as stability software (Paramarine, NAPA, FORAN, Maxsurf),FEA, CFD and CAD
• Experience of leading design reviews
• Experience of leading design activities

Qualifications for the Principal Naval Architect

• Ideally Degree qualified but HND/HNC level qualification in an engineering discipline with extensive experience in relevant field will be considered.
• You will be a member of a relevant institution (e.g. RINA, IET, IMechE, IMarEst etc.) and hold Chartered status.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer 

• 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 the majority of 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

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock  has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 06/12/2024

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