Principal Through Life Engineer

• Job Location: England
• Type: Permanent
• Posted: 13/03/2020

As a Principal through Life Engineer, you will become a primary technical point of contact for their in-service programme system and will be responsible for leading a project team that provides advice and expertise on the resolution of technical issues to their customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Providing a proactive response to emerging technical issues, including customer fault reports and technical queries
• Coordinating the project engineering team to develop a solution that is technically and commercially acceptable
• Enacting programmes of inspection and preventative maintenance
• Ensuring that customer equipment remains safe and suitable for continued service
• Seeking opportunities to improve the in-service delivery performance of our Torpedo Defence Systems
• Coordinating and cooperating with the field support team to conduct ship surveys and commission equipment
• Implementing change requests to documentation
• Highlighting resource conflict or constraints to engineering management
• Producing estimates for new engineering work (e.g. redesign) and planning the work.

Skills, Qualification and Experience:

You will be a reliable and trustworthy individual, with a logical approach, you will have:

• Significant experience as a senior engineer within the In-Service phase of the lifecycle
• Provided leadership, and worked ‘hands on,’ during integration, testing and system commissioning
• Demonstrated the ability to plan and execute support tasks on complex projects
• Shown the ability to work under tight time constraints, in challenging contexts
• A background working with maritime equipment. An understanding of underwater warfare systems would be a bonus.
• Demonstrable experience in communicating complicated topics clearly and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences

You will also are a detail-oriented problem solver, with a passion for supporting the customer.

Important information: Due to the nature of the projects, the successful candidate will need to be able to gain a minimum SC level security clearance



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