Marine Systems Engineer

Position Overview

A Marine Systems Engineer responsible for delivering high‑quality solutions across the full engineering lifecycle for submarine and surface vessel systems. The role supports design, development, verification and integration within a hybrid model of work.

• 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.
• Contribute to documentation and governance artefacts in line with MOD and industry standards.
• Examine key design drivers, standards and requirements.

• Degree qualification in Marine Engineering (or related subject such as Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering) at either Bachelor's or Master's level.
• Be a Chartered Engineer, Incorporated Engineer, or show 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, translating customer ideas and capability requirements into design solutions and exploiting Defence Standards.
• Ability to work collaboratively within multi‑disciplinary teams and ability to obtain a security clearance.

• Proven experience as a Marine Systems Engineer within Defence or complex system environments with a strong understanding of marine systems engineering principles and lifecycle models (e.g. V‑model, Agile, hybrid approaches).
• Experience of working with stakeholders to determine their needs and generate the highest level of system requirements, based on the users' needs and other constraints.
• Ability, experience and proof of producing high‑quality, well‑structured and logically written reports within tight timescales that clearly communicate an understanding of the task, the work carried out, conclusions and recommendations to the sponsor.

• Competitive package, 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, and reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.
• Work‑life balance and flexibility; hybrid, part‑time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and the business.