Marine Systems Engineer

About the Opportunity

Amentum is offering an exciting opportunity to join our growing team of professionals, working on a range of projects across the Defence sector. This role involves supporting delivery of high‑quality services to our clients, developing solutions that address critical challenges, and supporting digitalisation and security.

• Elicit, analyse and manage stakeholder and system requirements, ensuring traceability across the lifecycle.
• Develop system architectures and design artefacts, including functional, logical and physical views.
• Support decomposition of requirements from system to subsystem and component levels.
• Collaborate with architects, developers and integration teams to ensure coherent and feasible system designs.
• Support verification and validation planning, ensuring requirements are testable and aligned to acceptance criteria.
• Produce documentation and governance artefacts in line with MOD and industry standards.
• Examine key design drivers, standards and requirements.

• Degree in Marine Engineering (or related subject such as Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering) at Bachelor’s or Master’s level.
• Chartered Engineer, Incorporated Engineer or evidence of ongoing CPD towards Chartered status.
• Proven ability to solve complex marine systems engineering problems, including trade‑off analysis and design trade studies.
• Experience in marine or naval systems engineering, ideally on warship or submarine design studies (especially surface combatants). Experience of working on naval ship studies and design activity during ship acquisition.
• Ability to translate customer ideas and capability requirements into design solutions and exploit Defence Standards to shape/define design elements.
• Ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and obtain a security clearance.
• Strong understanding of marine systems engineering principles and lifecycle models (e.g. V‑model, Agile, hybrid approaches).
• Experience working with stakeholders to determine their needs and generate high‑level system requirements.
• Proven experience delivering high‑quality, well‑structured, logically written reports within tight timescales.

• Competitive compensation package.
• UK employees receive free single medical cover and digital GP service.
• Family‑friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes.
• Reimbursement for relevant professional development and memberships.
• Work‑life balance and flexibility: hybrid, part‑time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations are discussed.

Amentum is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on any basis of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or any other protected characteristic. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability or protected veteran status.