Specialist Inspector - Marine Engineering

Nautilus International; Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 73,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and safety regulator in the UK seeks a Specialist Inspector – Marine Engineering to ensure the safety of offshore energy and marine installations. This role includes conducting inspections and assessments of equipment for safety and compliance, engaging with industry best practices, and providing technical advice. The ideal candidate will possess substantial marine engineering knowledge, experience with offshore installations, and appropriate qualifications. A salary range of £73,335 – £77,003 plus additional benefits including relocation allowance is offered.

Benefits

Salary ranging from £73,335 to £77,003

Up to £10,000 offshore market supplement

Up to £15,000 relocation allowance

Competitive pension scheme

25 days annual leave plus additional days

Qualifications

• Experience in design, construction, and operations of offshore installations.
• Chartered Engineer status or qualifications to achieve it.
• Marine engineering qualification with STCW Certificate of Competency.

Responsibilities

• Conduct inspections of offshore energy and marine installations.
• Assess safety in marine craft and review its key aspects.
• Engage with industry groups to raise offshore safety standards.

Skills

Marine engineering knowledge

Risk management

Knowledge of ISO and IMO standards

Understanding of floating offshore installations

Education

Degree in Marine Engineering

Chartered Engineer status

Job description

Aberdeen, Ashford (Kent), Basingstoke, Birmingham, Bootle, Bristol, Buxton, Cardiff, Carlisle, Carmarthen, Chelmsford, Crewe, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Leeds, Milton Keynes, Newcastle-upon‑Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxted, Plymouth, Sheffield, Wrexham, York (with regular travel to Aberdeen)

About Us

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is Britain’s national regulator for workplace health and safety. We’re dedicated to protecting people and places, ensuring everyone can lead safer and healthier lives at work. One of our key operational arms is the Energy Division (ED), which regulates Great Britain’s onshore and offshore oil and gas industry, pipelines, mines, diving, and renewables sectors. We are now looking for a marine engineer to retrain as a Specialist Inspector and join our Energy Division on a full‑time, permanent basis at our locations across the country. This role will involve regular travel to Aberdeen and travelling to offshore installations.

The Benefits

• Salary of £73,335 – £77,003
• This role currently attracts an offshore market supplement up to a maximum of £10,000 which is non‑pensionable and non‑consolidated. It is subject to review annually in HSE’s October pay offer
• Relocation to Aberdeen will attract a relocation allowance up to £15,000 for eligible candidates
• Competitive Civil Service pension scheme with employer contributions of over 28.97%
• 25 days’ annual leave, increasing to 30 after five years, plus bank holidays and 1-day Civil Service privilege leave
• Learning and development tailored to your role
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• Family‑friendly policies and working hours to support work‑life balance
• Parental leave benefits
• Access to a range of benefits, including Cycle to Work Scheme, E‑Gift Cards, and vouchers via Edenred

The Role

As a Specialist Inspector, you will undertake inspections of offshore energy and marine installations, helping to ensure hazardous activities are managed safely.

Undertaking the Specialist Training Programme, you will initially be supported by colleagues to assess safety in marine craft. Specifically, you will review areas such as hull structure and stability, watertight integrity, ballast and bilge systems, station keeping, and cargo and offloading arrangements.

You’ll take part in onshore and offshore inspections and contribute to investigations following incidents or complaints, support enforcement decisions and technical reporting, and provide expert evidence where required. As a trusted technical adviser on maritime safety matters, you will also:

• Provide practical health and safety advice within HSE and to industry
• Engage with industry groups and standards bodies to help raise offshore safety standards

About You

• Experience in one or more areas involving design, construction, integrity management, and operations of floating offshore installations (FPSOs/FSUs, Jackup rigs and Semi‑submersibles), support vessels, and their marine plant and equipment.
• An understanding of relevant codes & standards from International Standards Organisation (ISO), International Maritime Organisation (IMO), American Petroleum Institute (API) and Classification Societies.
• Expert level knowledge on the operation of marine systems, including power generation and power management onboard trading oil tankers, shuttle tankers, dynamically positioned mobile offshore units or diving support vessels.
• Knowledge and understanding of design principles and safety levels involved in the design of various marine systems for floating offshore installations.
• Knowledge and understanding of major accident hazards and control measures for floating offshore installations and mobile offshore units.
• Familiarity with basic principles of risk management and risk assessment tools.
• Operational knowledge and experience to identify risk gaps and underlying issues.
• Chartered Engineer status with corporate membership of an appropriate professional institution (IMarEST or RINA), or have the qualifications to be able to achieve chartered status.
• A marine engineering qualification with an STCW Certificate of Competency as a Chief Engineer unlimited or a degree in Marine Engineering or equivalent qualifications with demonstrable experience as a marine engineer.

The closing date for this role is 5th January 2026. Other organisations may call this role Safety Inspector, Marine Inspector, Maritime Inspector, Maritime Safety Inspector, Marine Safety Specialist, or Marine Engineering Inspector.

Webrecruit and the Health and Safety Executive are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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The Health and Safety Executive seeks a Speci­alist Inspector – Marine Engineering