Project Coordinator ​/ Assistant to the Chief Engineer

• Full Time
• Permanent
• Salary: £25,000 - £35,000 (Depending on experience)

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.

As the company continues to grow, we are seeking a highly organised and proactive Project Coordinator / Assistant to Chief Engineer. This unique role combines project coordination responsibilities across multiple engineering systems with administrative and organisational support to the Chief Engineer, making it ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced technical environment.

• 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.
• Offsite Parking available.

The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring engineering programmes remain organised, visible, and on schedule. They will be responsible for coordinating up to ten vehicle control accounts (major subsystems), maintaining project information, tracking risks and dependencies, and supporting effective communication across engineering teams. Alongside project responsibilities, the role will provide direct support to the Chief Engineer through diary management, meeting coordination, minute-taking, action tracking, and stakeholder engagement.

The position requires excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, confidence working with engineers and suppliers, and the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

• Own and coordinate up to ten engineering control accounts (vehicle systems), ensuring project information remains accurate and up to date.
• Maintain project schedules and delivery milestones within JIRA, ensuring dates, progress updates, and dependencies are accurately represented.
• Work closely with engineering teams to ensure individuals understand their responsibilities, commitments, and deliverables.
• Monitor control account progress and elevate issues that may impact project schedules or deliverables.
• Ensure technical, schedule, and programme risks are identified, documented, and maintained within project tracking systems.
• Support the tracking and reporting of control account costs, budgets, and system mass properties.
• Identify and manage interdependencies between vehicle systems, ensuring impacts affecting one control account are communicated and captured across all affected accounts.
• Assist with project reviews, reporting, and preparation of programme status updates.
• Support configuration and change management processes where required.
• Facilitate communication between engineering disciplines to ensure alignment and timely decision-making.

• Manage and coordinate the Chief Engineer's calendar, ensuring availability is optimised and priorities are effectively managed.
• Organise internal engineering meetings, reviews, and workshops.
• Coordinate supplier and external stakeholder meetings, including scheduling, logistics, agendas, and follow-up actions.
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