Junior Naval Architect

About the job

Job Title: Junior Naval Architect
Location: Portsmouth, Edinburgh or Bristol
Package: Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
Role Type: Full time
 Role ID: SF16080

QinetiQ is a company of over 6000 people. Our scientists and engineers offer our customers world-class expertise in advice, services (particularly test and evaluation) and innovative technology-based products. We deploy our scientific and technological knowledge, proven research capabilities and unique, purpose-built facilities to provide both services and products that meet the needs of a wide range of global customers.

We operate primarily in the defence, security and critical national infrastructure markets. We are committed to listening, understanding and responding to our customers' needs. This enables us to use our depth of experience and our unique science and engineering expertise to equip them with powerful solutions to their most pressing challenges.

The Naval Architecture team sits within the Maritime and Land business of QinetiQ. The team delivers hydrodynamic testing and design consultancy services. Hydrodynamic problem solving forms a significant part of the project work within group - identifying a methodology for solving a client's hydrodynamic issues, mathematically or through model testing.

The role:

The primary focus of the Junior Naval Architect job will be the delivery of technical projects relating to surface ship and submarine hydrodynamic subject areas. The likely areas of interest include propulsor and propeller design, dynamic stability, quasi-static stability, seakeeping, resistance and propulsion. The work will include use of QinetiQ's hydrodynamic facilities and industry standard or bespoke numerical simulation tools.

The Junior Naval Architect role will require presenting work to internal forums and coordinating with Project Managers and technical leads to deliver the work to time, cost and quality. Participation in business support activities will also be required including bidding and planning activities through the provision of task estimates and breakdowns of task descriptions.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Working collaboratively with customers and colleagues to deliver ensure the customers' requirements are and providing innovative solutions to customers' problems
• Ensure the work is conducted in a safe manner, highlighting hazards and potentially unsafe practices to Team Lead.
• Actively participate and encourage increased collaboration across the team.

As a Naval Architect, you will be able to work from a Hybrid working model from home. You will also have flexibility over your working start and finish times.

Qualifications for the Junior Naval Architect:

You should have a qualification in Naval Architecture or any relevant qualification with an appreciation for Maritime.

Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there's never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation, courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You'll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you'll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in an diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits. You'll receive highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what's happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more.

About QinetiQ

As a company of over six thousand dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.