Principal Maritime Engineer (London)

Are you a senior structural/civil marine engineer looking for the next step in your career? With us, you get to work on globally significant projects, both locally and internationally, whilst working with leading professionals within the maritime sector.

What Will You Do

Your role will involve using your technical and practical experience to develop engineering design solutions for maritime civil engineering structures in ports and shipyards, utilizing materials such as steel, concrete, and timber according to relevant design codes. You will contribute to all project stages, from inception through design and construction to demolition, recycling, and reuse. Your technical and commercial experience, along with your ability to liaise with multi-disciplinary teams, will be vital to the success of the projects you work on. You will act as a Project Manager for small and medium-sized projects or a Technical Manager on large/complex projects. You provide guidance to more junior staff, including project managers, engineers, graduates, technicians and admin staff working on your projects.

Furthermore, you will:

• Prepare designs and analysis for maritime and associated structures for ports and shipyards.
• Carry out inspections and surveys.
• Produce design calculations and check and review calculations produced by others.
• Check and review models and drawings before issuing them.
• Prepare Bills of Quantities, Contract Documents, and Specifications.
• Undertake structural analyses and reporting.

Your role will involve giving presentations to client organisations and internal audiences, providing engineering judgment and advice, and reviewing (or preparing) study reports to a high standard of written English. You will provide commercial awareness of projects to deliver profitable results within the programme by setting and agreeing expectations and achieving on-time delivery. You will contribute to local, national, and international business development efforts through the production of proposals and interaction with clients.

Where you will work

We are an independent, employee-owned consulting engineering company. We come to work to solve our clients' most pressing issues and make a positive impact on the world through challenging and exciting projects. Across the globe, we have 6,000 colleagues in 75 offices in more than 30 countries.

Our Maritime team are at the forefront of innovative maritime planning, design, and development. We are multi-disciplinary experts who work on international projects to create successful ports and maritime infrastructure worldwide. We have provided expert commercial, technical, and operational advice and created master plans across five continents for a wide range of port projects. We are one of the largest and most experienced teams of port planning professionals globally, and we are world leaders in the production of port feasibility studies and master plans. From our Southern hub, we run all the company's Shipyard projects, collaborating with colleagues globally!

What You Bring

You possess strong analytical and conceptual abilities, enabling you to lead design and analysis work with limited support and undertake design from concept to construction-ready stages. Your excellent communication skills allow you to clearly articulate the reasons behind your decisions, both orally and in writing, and you show confidence in presenting to team members, clients, and stakeholders. You maintain a professional client-facing approach, think laterally to develop solutions to problems and build a network within the immediate team and the wider organisation as a trusted advisor to our clients. You are solution-oriented, delivering project objectives without losing focus on the details, and you demonstrate organisation, discipline, and a structured, consistent approach in your work. Additionally, you are personable, approachable, relatable, and empathetic.

Besides this, you:

• Demonstrate experience in developing shipyard infrastructure, including heavy-duty quays, dry docks, floating docks, and ship lifts.
• Demonstrate a commitment to training junior staff, e.g., as a Delegated Engineer or Supervising Civil Engineer within an ICE training scheme.
• Have an educational background in Civil/Structural Engineering (BSc, Beng, MSc, CEngMice or CEng MiStructE).
• Possess professional experience in planning and designing maritime structures.
• Are familiar with international maritime and structural engineering standards, manuals, etc.
• Are willing to travel occasionally throughout the UK and overseas.

Note: Even if you feel you do not meet all of the role requirements described above, please still apply. We value applications from a range of backgrounds - so please highlight additional skills you could bring to the role.

What We Offer You

We offer a stimulating environment where people come first and you are empowered to craft your own career path. You can look forward to growing your career in a dynamic workplace with development opportunities and support on your career path. We offer flexible working models to ensure a balance between family and work life.

We have Maritime offices across the UK and we offer flexible working arrangements with hybrid working, including but not limited to part time hours.

Royal HaskoningDHV is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions. Together, we are embarking on a journey where everyone, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences. We recognise that embracing diversity unlocks innovation and creativity and fosters collaboration. We want our employees to reflect the diversity of our communities and the customers we serve.

Benefits

You can read more about our benefits here.

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