Mechanical Design Engineer

• Salary: £50,000 DOE
• Full Time
• Permanent

Who we are:

Sub Sea Craft is a fast growing, privately-funded, UK-based innovative maritime technology company specialising in next-generation, high-performance watercraft and systems. We operate at the intersection of advanced engineering, cutting-edge design, and user-centric innovation, delivering safe, effective, and enabling solutions for both commercial and defence applications.

What we offer:

• Annual Leave
  - Entitlement to 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Wellbeing Day
  - An additional Wellbeing Day each year to focus on personal health and wellbeing.
• Private Healthcare
  - Access to comprehensive private healthcare coverage to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
• Life Assurance and Critical Illness Cover
  - Comprehensive protection including Life Assurance (4x salary) and Critical Illness Cover for added financial security.
• Family Leave
  - Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Christmas Leave - A Christmas shutdown is typically observed.
• Professional Development
  - Commitment to ongoing learning and career growth, supported by training programmes and access to Linked In Learning.
• Pension Contribution - pension scheme with the option to contribute via salary sacrifice
• Flexible Working
  - Opportunities for flexible working arrangements to promote work-life balance.
• Inclusive Culture - A professional environment that values diversity, innovation, and collaboration.

Responsibilities will include:

• Create and develop solutions to mechanical problems to meet requirements at systems, product and user experience level.
• Experience in 3D CAD and producing 2D Drawings, ideally Autodesk Inventor.
• Justify solutions with engineering calculations and analysis.
• Work with the engineering project team to deliver within scheduled time frames.
• Report progress and identify strengths and weaknesses in delivery.
• Support the Mechanical Leads to provide insight into improved ways of working.
• Compliant with all aspects of company legislative compliance, HSE, HR etc

Qualifications and

Experience:

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in an associated mechanical or marine engineering discipline.
• Engineering creativity, a desire not just does but excel and push boundaries.
• Demonstrable design/build experience with mechanical systems.

Desirable:

• Understanding of material properties and selection criteria for a specific task.
• Understanding of manufacturing processes and design for manufacture.
• Understanding of GD&T drawing methodology.
• Understanding of configuration control process and importance of implementation.

What to Bring:

Passion... we’d love to see what you can do and how you communicate ideas. Use the interview as your opportunity to showcase an idea, concept or thing you are proud of. Present it critically, tell us what worked and more importantly what could have been improved.

Note:

Due to the nature of work undertaken at Sub Sea Craft, the selected candidate must be capable of meeting the security requirements of the position, which would include as a minimum existing right to live and work in the UK, Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), with UK National security clearance required for certain roles.*

Values:
Our people are our greatest asset, we continually strive to provide an excellent working environment to enable our team to do their best work. We have an agile professional workforce: weare founded on the belief that our people are valued and our business is trusted, inclusive and commercially-adept.

What we expect from you:

• Teamwork, mutual respect and collaboration
• Initiative and independent working
• Honesty and integrity
• Business and commercial awareness
• Agility, adaptability and continuous development

We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive. If…