Marine Engineer / Naval Architect

Our client, a leading body for health and safety within the offshore sector, is currently looking for an experience Naval Architect or Marine Engineer, with extensive experience in the oil and gas sector, to act as a technical authority within their team.

Using your specialist knowledge, you will:

– Provide expert advice on marine engineering or naval architecture matters to industry, other stakeholders and colleagues.
– Carry out inspections of offshore oil and gas installations and vessels.
– Assess safety cases, drawing conclusions as to the adequacy of the case, and make recommendations for future inspection topics.
– Investigate accidents, incidents and complaints alone or as part of a team.
– Support and instigate enforcement action, including preparing technical reports, and expert evidence in legal proceedings.
– Make technical and strategic contributions to overall strategy.
– Make technical contributions to the development of industry standards and guidance.
– Initiate research focused on resolving hazards in the offshore work environment.

Attributes required

We are looking for high calibre specialists who can, under challenge, think strategically, identify underlying core issues, engage at different levels both with colleagues, site technical staff and at the most senior levels within an organisation.
You will be decisive and able to influence those organisations to bring about improvements. You will have:

– Strong communication skills to influence change at all levels in the organisations we regulate;
– Sound analytical skills to identify underlying gaps and deficiencies related to risk management;
– Initiative, and decisiveness, making sound decisions based on available evidence;
– Good organisational and planning skills to manage your workload;
– The ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team;
– The ability to write effective technical reports and to present complex technical information in a clear and concise way for a non-technical audience.

Essential criteria:
– A degree or equivalent qualification (e.g. Master Mariner) in a relevant discipline;
– A chartered engineer and corporate membership of a relevant professional institution (e.g. IMarEST, RINA, or Nautical Institute);
– Experience of design, construction, integrity management, and marine operations of floating offshore installations, support vessels, and their marine plant and equipment;
– Knowledge and understanding of all major accident hazards and their control measures for floating offshore installations. In particular: mooring and dynamic positioning systems; FPSO cargo and offloading systems; seakeeping and stability analysis; marine and structural integrity; stability and ballast systems; marine safety and emergency response systems;
– Familiarity with relevant offshore standards, including those of the International Maritime Organisation; International Standards Organisation; and Classification Societies;
– Practical experience with risk assessment and risk management tools;
– Ability to work with other technical disciplines at all levels;
– You must be able to satisfy the UK offshore medical & survival training requirements;
– You will hold a full driving licence that permits you to drive in the UK unless reasonable adjustments can be made in line with the Equality Act 2010.

The role includes travel offshore for which there are additional allowances.

To apply for this position, candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK
Matchtech Group UK Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.