Autonomous Vessel Training Lead

2 weeks ago

Cardiff, United Kingdom Maritime and Coastguard Agency Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 263165**Salary**:

- £50,238**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MCA - UK Maritime Services**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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Location
- Aberdeen, Cardiff, SouthamptonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Are you able to analyse risks and propose suitable solutions?

Could you effectively represent the UK in international working groups in relation to training for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS)?

Would you love to work in a pioneering area creating new regulation for training for autonomous/remotely operated vessels?

If so, we'd love to hear from you

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) implements the government's maritime safety policy in the United Kingdom and works to prevent the loss of life and occurrence of pollution on the coast and at sea.

Safer lives, Safer ships, Cleaner seas.

Our vision is to be a world-leading organisation, accelerating the transition to sustainable shipping with non-negotiable safety standards. We put our people, our customers and our planet at the heart of everything we do.

Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport.

**Job description**:
The MCA is taking a prominent role for enabling the training regime for future technology and autonomous vessels and we have an exciting opportunity for a passionate individual to join us as the Autonomous Vessel Training Lead.

This role is instrumental and focussed on creating new training regulation and managing the function for remotely operated vessels, which have little or no human interaction.

The Autonomous Vessel Training Lead will take ownership of the introduction and delivery of a Regulatory pathway for training of operators of remotely controlled vessels, leading the industry working group and effectively engaging with various stakeholders such as training colleges and other administrations who are also working to establishing standards for autonomous vessel operation.

The successful applicant will collaborate with the MCA Ship Standards branch, Technical Services and Department for Transport providing expert technical input to develop UK policies and implement legislation on Autonomous vessel training matters and will take a key role around the approval of training courses for operators of Remotely controlled vessels.

This is a fantastic and interesting opportunity to gain exposure across the maritime industry whilst representing the UK in international working groups in relation to training for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS). This is a unique role creating and developing currently non-existent regulations for remotely controlled vessel training, working with new and novel technology and acting as an interface between industry, innovation, and policy.

**Responsibilities**

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Providing expert technical input to support the development, maintenance, and delivery of the Autonomous vessel Operator Training development programme/work plan and to enable delivery against the plan. This will include advising on prioritisation of where we should focus our efforts/engagement.
- Building expertise in implementation of training requirement for autonomous vessel from a regulatory perspective so that technical advice can be given to operators to train Autonomous vessel operators.
- Actively engaging in all aspects of the regulatory process - working closely with survey and inspection colleagues, analysts, and lawyers, among others, to ensure that training regulations for Autonomous vessels are developed and delivered in a timely manner in accordance with all relevant clearance and consultation requirements.
- Leading the engagement with other administrations that have an interest in development of training for Autonomous vessels
- Leading the facilitation of industry stakeholders input to the regulatory update process considering different types of autonomous vessel operation, including cases for best practice.

For an in-depth insight into the role, please refer to the Role Profile attached to this advert.

This role can be based at the Southampton, Cardiff or Aberdeen office. MCA supports flexible working and operates a hybrid working model between home and office for this role, giving you greater flexibility over where and when you work. Details of the arrangement will be discussed further with your line manager.

There will be a requirement for travel on official duty within the UK and overseas, which may be at short notice and involve overnight stays away from home. A passport valid for international travel is required.

There may also be some work and travel taking place outside normal working hours and potentially at weekends.

**Person specification**:
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