Maritime Engineering Manager; Shore

Location: Gosport, Hampshire.

Contract: Full Time, permanent

Salary: Competitive

Closing Date: 11 January 2026

Are you an experienced Engineer looking for a new opportunity?

The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is a vibrant and growing charity delivering life changing nautical adventure for young people through the Sea Cadets to give them the best possible head start in life. We also provide personal and professional development opportunities for seafarers with the Marine Society. Working with our staff, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a vision and five-year strategy to take us forward and further improve the astounding contribution already made through our work to the lives of thousands of young people and seafarers, while fully supporting our volunteers who are vital to our success.

We are currently looking for an experienced maritime engineering manager to join our team.

The shore-based Maritime Engineering Manager will play a key role in sustaining the MSSC’s offshore vessels which provide sea-going experiences for cadets (aged 12-18) and in ensuring the safety of all personnel on board. The main purpose of the role is to provide support to the vessels’ engineer officers with the engineering management and maintenance needs of MSSC’s offshore vessels.

• Providing day-to-day support in identifying defects and safety shortcomings, determining solutions, assisting in rectification or organising cost-effective professional repairs at advantageous prices and obtaining replacement parts.
• Producing, overseeing and tracking (technically and financially) the winter maintenance work packages for the fleet.
• Progressive development of MSSC’s Safety Management System & Electronic Planned Maintenance System, related to the technical running and management of each offshore vessel.
• Assisting the engineer officers of MSSC’s vessels with maintenance tasks.
• Managing records to support and evidence MSSC’s maintenance programme.
• Acting as an occasional sea-going relief engineer on board any of the three larger vessels.

At MSSC Offshore we value attitude, experience and skills, no matter what route you have taken to build your portfolio. The following examples illustrate the type of person we are looking for, but are not exclusive. So long as you can show an equivalent level of experience and skills, and a willingness to learn more, we absolutely want to hear from you.

For full descriptions, please see the Person Specification in the Recruitment Pack.

• High reliability in personal and professional standards, particularly in timekeeping, workload management and engineering standards.
• Confident working with a broad range of people; from briefing VIPs or educating cadets, through to assisting engineers with hands‑on maintenance.
• Flexible and resilient, adaptable to change.
• Satisfactory DBS check or equivalent (arranged by MSSC if not already held).
• Ability and willingness to work at sea aboard MSSC vessels both during maintenance prior to the training season and as a relief engineer officer during the sailing season.
• Health and fitness necessary to obtain ENG1 / ML5 medical certification.

• Ability to communicate complex technical information clearly and accurately, to both technical and non-technical audiences, in writing and verbally.
• Self‑awareness that supports ability to build professional relationships with people from all walks of life.
• Experience of prioritising competing work demands and ability to make independent assessments of priority tasks without supervision.
• Track record of developing and managing safe systems of work, including implementing a Just Culture of safety and environmental compliance in the workplace.

• Engineer with appropriate experience and qualifications for operation up to Area Category 0 under the Small Commercial Vessel Code.
• Suitable examples include: MCA AEC2;
  Small Vessel Chief Engineer < 500GT &