Senior Naval Architect

1 month ago


Bristol, South West England, United Kingdom Thales Part time
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Primary Purpose of the Role:

We are seeking a Naval Architect or Senior Naval Architect to join our team on a full time basis.

The Naval/Senior Naval Architect will be responsible for providing the specialist technical knowledge to a number of teams throughout Thales UK in support of maritime Mine Countermeasure (MCM) programmes across the lifecycle.

Accordingly the Naval/Senior Naval Architect will be accountable to the MCM Principal Naval Architect for all activities relating to naval architecture and engineering in a marine environment.

The Naval/Senior Naval Architect will support mixed discipline teams to direct or participate in the oversight or execution of the naval architecture and engineering activities which require the access to the specific knowledge, skills or SQEP experience of the job holder.

The successful candidate will be required to work on a number of interesting and challenging projects, both in the UK and worldwide, working closely with our clients to ensure Thales deliver to our customer's expectations and flexibility to travel and work at other locations is essential.

Principal Relationships:
  • MCM Principal Naval Architect
  • Engineering Delivery Managers (EDM)

• Design Authority (PDA / DAPL)

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:
  • Providing specialist domain technical guidance and governance for all ship integration activities and in a maritime environment including whole ship, hull, superstructure, propulsion systems, auxiliary systems, outfit and applicable shore-side infrastructure and facilities.
  • Act as informed customer to subcontractors and third parties in matters of Naval Architecture & general engineering in a marine environment.
  • Technically liaising with subcontractors, certification bodies, and other business lines within Thales in areas of Naval Architecture including the review and acceptance of deliverables.
  • Perform calculation of Naval Architecture artefacts including stability, hydrodynamic and hydrostatic calculations, weight and buoyancy assessments, shock, static and dynamic load analysis.
  • Act as subject matter expert to advise mixed teams of hardware, systems & software engineers in matters of Naval Architecture and engineering.
  • Work closely with EDMs, PDAs and the Principal Naval Architect to inform project status, able to communicate domain knowledge to a technical and non-technical audience to inform decision making.
  • Triage and resolve emergent issues in areas of Naval Architecture and marine engineering throughout design lifecycle.
  • Technical management of platform upgrades and/or defects/problem reports on both deliverable and company MCM vessels.
  • To represent Thales in the field, ensuring that manufacture, commissioning and repair tasks are carried out to appropriate standards and design intent is well understood.

Expected Competence Level:

Skills

Essential skills include:
  • Experience in engaging with clients and partners with deep naval architecture and marine engineering subject matter expertise and knowledge.
  • Experience in overseeing and performing technical calculations, investigations and problem solving associated with naval architecture across the whole project lifecycle.
  • Experience in coordinating internal and external resources to provide a timely and accurate technical service to the client and/or colleagues on the maritime aspects of complex defence projects.
  • Good communication and inter-personal skills with a qualified ability to remain composed and focused under pressure.
  • Good standard of technical writing skills and first class presentation skills.
  • Customer and stakeholder management (internal & external).
  • Ability to put skills and project based experience of the above listed areas into practice unaided whilst providing support and direction to less experienced colleagues and advice and direction to senior members of the organisation.

Desirable skills include:
  • Extensive knowledge of Classification Rules, International Standards and Defence Standards.
  • Ability to oversee inclining experiments and interpret the results making recommendations to the business on the subsequent remedial activities.
  • Solid analytical skills and ability to interpret technical drawings, review mechanical designs, assess Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and manage simulation modelling.
  • Experience in supporting bid teams, providing technical input, identifying work packages, risk areas and costing technical activities.
  • Experience in working internationally in a technical and customer facing environment with knowledge of both complex ship regeneration and new build programmes.
  • Experience in providing technical leadership within the responsibilities assigned and familiar with working within multi-disciplinary teams to design, estimate and deliver technical solutions.
  • Experienced and knowledgeable of engineering requirements, standards and processes for large complex systems and familiar with acting as a peer reviewer of engineering deliverables on projects.
  • Experience of requirements tracing from design through to development and acceptance.
  • Strong knowledge and proven application of Engineering Project Delivery and processes - across the full project lifecycle with cognisance of commercial acumen.

Values & Behaviours:
  • Focus on Customers
  • Perform through teaming
  • Innovate
  • Develop our people

Financial / Budgetary Responsibility:
  • Participate in regular reviews of performance on delivery of project work packages against project milestones and budgets proving a qualitative assessment of the value of work performed.

Qualifications:
  • Degree-qualified or equivalent
  • Dependent on level the Naval Architect/Senior naval Architect will be registered with a professional body and Chartered or working towards Chartership
  • Driving License

Key performance Indicators against Responsibilities and Tasks:

This role is continually monitored for performance and as such some of the following typical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) will be used:
  • Application of associated naval architecture and engineering knowledge
  • Maintenance and evolution of the maritime aspects of the MCM Sector product line
  • Quality of work produced and performed against agreed industry standards
  • Delivery to timescales and budget
  • Performance against Thales key values

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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