Middleware Engineer Fullstack

Tether; Remote; GBP 51,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A naval engineering consultancy is looking for a Senior Engineer/Naval Architect in Dunfermline, Scotland. The role involves working on naval ship design and marine engineering, engaging with customers, and leading projects in simulation and analysis. Ideal candidates will have a STEM degree, strong communication abilities, and experience in numerical simulation. This full-time position offers competitive pay, flexible hours, and a supportive work environment focused on staff development.

Benefits

Competitive salary dependent on candidate and experience

Flexible working hours

25 days leave per year plus public holidays

Company pension and private health care

Support for career development

Qualifications

• Degree in a STEM subject including Naval Architecture; and ideally experience in a naval or maritime discipline.
• Strong communication skills, able to analyse complex problems and present conclusions confidently and clearly, orally and in writing.
• Experience in numerical simulation would be highly advantageous.
• Self-motivation should be evident as you will need to quickly perform at a high level.
• Excellent engineering computer skills are essential.
• Great collaboration skills to be able to work well in a team.

Responsibilities

• Engaging with customers to understand requirements and develop approaches.
• Working independently or as part of a small team to simulate and analyse naval scenarios.
• Developing approaches for assessing simulation data and extracting key observations.
• Writing technical reports and presentations to explain conclusions.
• Developing engineering models from trials and simulations.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Experience in numerical simulation

Self-motivation

Excellent engineering computer skills

Collaboration skills

Education

Degree in a STEM subject including Naval Architecture

Job description

SURVIVABILITY CONSULTING LIMITED provided pay range

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Base pay range

Senior Engineer/Naval Architect – up to £60k DOE + Pension + Benefits – Dunfermline

The Role

Are you an experienced engineer or naval architect looking to take the next step in your career? Do you have a strong background in naval ship design or marine engineering? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you.

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Engineer/Naval Architect to join our growing team at Survivability Consulting Limited.

This role is ideal for someone with several years of experience in naval ship design or marine engineering, but we also welcome other engineers or scientists interested in the naval defence sector. You'll be working with a highly experienced team to enhance your knowledge and quickly take on key responsibilities.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a unique naval engineering consultancy and develop your career.

Key Responsibilities

• Engaging with customers to understand requirements, develop approaches, inform progress and present outputs.
• Working independently or as part of a small team to simulate and analyse naval scenarios to improve the survivability of naval platforms.
• Developing approaches for assessing simulation data, extracting key observations in order to draw conclusions which address the customer’s requirements.
• Writing technical reports and presentations to explain these conclusions, helping to guide future designs and policy.
• Developing fast running engineering models from trials, complex numerical simulations or battle damage data.

The Company

Survivability Consulting Limited is a technical consultancy based in Dunfermline. We deliver assessment, advice and software in the fields of naval survivability and lethality to government and industry customers. We work on an exciting range of programmes of vital importance to the defence of the UK and its allies. Our senior team has well over a century of combined experience delivering to the UK MOD and defence industry.

Why SCL?

We are undergoing gradual and controlled expansion to deliver long‑term supporting contracts from our main customer and develop our cutting‑edge tools and consultancy into new, international markets. Joining our existing team of engineers, naval architects, physicists and mathematicians, you will become an expert in our important niche whilst also gaining or improving your knowledge of naval structures and systems. This means you will work on diverse aspects of naval design, with customers in a wide range of government and industry organisations and areas within those organisations, all of which provides an interesting and rewarding career.

As a small company we care about our staff and can be very flexible, for example fitting working hours around any personal commitments. We are committed to providing social value benefits to local communities and the environment through various voluntary activities and charitable support.

The Benefits

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary dependent on candidate and experience
• Flexible working (37.5 hours per week for full time but adjustments are possible)
• 25 days leave per year plus public holidays
• Company pension, private health care (including digital GP) and sickness insurance
• Actively supported career development to chartership and beyond with a relevant institution, fees paid

The Person

Examples of the skills and qualities that you will hold some of are:

• Degree in a STEM subject including Naval Architecture; and ideally experience in a naval or maritime discipline
• Strong communication skills, able to analyse complex problems and present conclusions confidently and clearly, orally and in writing
• Experience in numerical simulation would be highly advantageous
• Self-motivation should be evident as you will need to quickly perform at a high level
• Excellent engineering computer skills are essential
• Great collaboration skills to be able to work well in a team

Security

Please note that only UK nationals (no dual nationals) are eligible for the role and the successful candidate will need to undergo a security clearance process. Working from Home will not generally be possible.

Adjustments

If you need any reasonable adjustments during the application and recruitment process, then please just let us know.

Seniority level

Not Applicable

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering, Other, and Management

Industries

Defense and Space Manufacturing

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