Senior Structural Engineer in Southampton

This is an exciting opportunity for you as an experienced Senior Structural Engineer to join a growing team at Lateral Naval Architects. You will be responsible for providing a skilled contribution to the design work, maintaining the technical requirements and the standard of deliverables required within the discipline. Using your experience to provide support and guidance to colleagues across all disciplines and where appropriate for the coordination and technical supervision of colleagues working within their discipline. You will take an active coordination role when required, overseeing a team of engineers and design engineers for assigned projects, whilst also maintaining the primary role. Supporting and developing new ideas, designs and ways of working as part of the company’s ongoing investment in R&D and continuous improvement will be an important part of your role.

Responsibilities & tasks overview:

• Responsible for engineering design calculations for specific projects.
• Ensuring that classification society and/or national authority standards named in the specification for an assigned project are met.
• Actively managing the quality of project work produced, the appropriate level of detail, the adequate checking prior to release, and the completion of assigned tasks in a timely and transparent manner.
• Liaising with the customer or their representatives, subcontractors and suppliers where appropriate, and with classification societies and national authorities, to ensure that relevant information is available, and queries are answered in a timely fashion.
• Responsible for managing your own workload across multiple projects, following the priorities set and proposing solutions for any conflicting time requirements in coordination with their Discipline Lead.
• Responsible for the review of project work to identify potential areas of technical risk and discuss these with the Technical Project Manager.

About you:

• Typically a minimum of 8 years relevant experience in the marine industry.
• Self-motivation, time planning & management skills to meet agreed targets and deliverable deadlines, including feedback to support in the definition of resource requirements.
• Proven ability to process technical problems and effectively seek out the correct technical solution using sound engineering judgement.
• The ability to produce clear and well-presented drawings, plans and technical reports to a suitable quality and standard.
• Commercial awareness, with the ability to ensure that works are being carried out and completed to an appropriate standard and level of detail, measured against the contracted deliverables and tracked against the agreed budget.

About us:

Lateral Naval Architects provides complete engineering expertise to the superyacht industry, from project conception to delivery, operation, and refit. Our core competency is engineering, but our unique focus is on meaningful innovation to enable superyachts that meet the demands of today's owners and those of the future. We believe that meaningful innovation starts with asking new questions.