Jobs at Navantia UK

Leads operability and crewing strategy across naval ship design programs. Develops CONOPS, operational scenarios, crewing models, workload assessments, and user-centered engineering requirements. Drives crew-reduction and uncrewed concepts through automation and human-machine integration, while supporting trade studies, safety, regulatory compliance, stakeholder engagement, and operator-focused design decisions. Mentors engineers and represents the company with customers and working groups.

Leads integrated external campaigns supporting major defence and maritime opportunities. Develops campaign and stakeholder engagement strategies, coordinates communications, public affairs, marketing, digital, events, agencies and partners, and advises leaders on political, media and stakeholder developments. The role supports bids and growth objectives through messaging, engagement, performance tracking and collaboration with Business Development, Commercial and programme teams.

Develops and optimizes production plans and schedules to meet customer demand while balancing capacity, materials, labor, equipment, and inventory constraints. Uses ERP systems to manage production, materials, capacity planning, master data, BOMs, routings, and lead times. Monitors progress, adjusts plans, and coordinates with suppliers, procurement, operations, and sales to maintain material availability and delivery schedules.

Supports naval architecture and ship design for new-build, repair, conversion, and modernisation projects. Responsibilities include stability and hydrodynamic assessments, weight and centre-of-gravity calculations, structural and hull-form design, technical documentation, CAD modelling, design reviews, regulatory compliance, and vessel assurance activities. The role includes mentoring and structured development toward Chartered Engineer status, with occasional work at vessels, shipyards, and project sites.

Leads procurement activities, strategic sourcing, tender exercises, contract management, supplier performance, compliance, and governance. Provides procurement guidance to stakeholders, manages and mentors procurement staff, identifies cost savings, prepares performance reports, and supports continuous improvement. The role requires strong negotiation, commercial awareness, project management, stakeholder engagement, and procurement regulatory knowledge. Candidates must complete BPSS security clearance during onboarding.

Produces monthly financial reports, including profit and loss, balance sheet, project reporting, and KPIs. Maintains reconciliations, controls, budgets, forecasts, audits, and financial procedures. Provides management information, budget reviews, project appraisals, financial analysis, and process improvements while supporting the Financial Controller and senior management.

Leads supply chain strategy for defence bids and proposals, including sourcing, contracting, supplier negotiations, category management, cost reduction, value engineering, and risk management. Partners with engineering, operations, commercial, and legal teams to develop compliant, resilient supply chain solutions. Builds strategic supplier relationships, assesses UK and global supply chain capability, and leads a small team supporting major maritime defence programmes.

Provides administrative support to operations by maintaining employee time, payroll, absence, holiday, training, and personnel records. Processes timesheets, verifies payroll data, resolves discrepancies, supports onboarding, organises training, prints work orders and drawings, and manages document control and filing. The role requires strong Microsoft Office skills, accurate data entry, confidentiality, organisation, and communication. SAP PP knowledge is desirable. BPSS security clearance must be completed during onboarding.

Drives sales growth across offshore oil and gas, tanker, and bulk carrier markets. Identifies opportunities, manages client relationships and key accounts, develops bids and proposals, negotiates contracts, and achieves revenue and margin targets. Collaborates with estimating, engineering, operations, and leadership teams to deliver tailored solutions. Monitors market and competitor activity, identifies cross-selling opportunities, prepares forecasts and reports, and supports risk assessment and contract finalization.

Provide on-site first-line support for PLM, CAD, SAP, and other enterprise applications in an engineering and manufacturing environment. Own incidents, requests, and problems through resolution; diagnose issues, coordinate with application specialists, document procedures, and maintain application reliability. Build relationships with engineering and production stakeholders, identify improvements, support digital transformation projects, and travel occasionally to other sites.

Leads cost management for complex projects, including budgets, baselines, change control, forecasting, EAC and ETC calculations, EVM analysis, reporting, cash-flow monitoring, and risk identification. Partners with project, commercial, finance, engineering, procurement, and senior stakeholders to support financial decision-making. Coaches cost-control professionals and maintains project cost frameworks, performance dashboards, and governance processes.

Lead systems engineering for advanced naval platforms across requirements, architecture, configuration, interfaces, verification, and validation. Establish engineering governance and lifecycle strategies, manage traceability in Siemens Teamcenter, develop compliance evidence, and provide technical leadership across stakeholders. The role is based in Bristol with hybrid working and occasional travel.

Manage procurement of materials, equipment, components, and services for shipbuilding projects. Source and evaluate suppliers, negotiate contracts, control costs, mitigate supply chain risks, process purchase orders, track deliveries, and monitor inventory. Collaborate with project, engineering, and production teams to forecast needs, ensure compliance, review supplier performance, and identify savings. The role may also involve mentoring Buyers and supporting procurement process improvements.

Supports commercial management of complex defense and maritime bids, contracts, and client accounts. Responsibilities include bid-phase commercial planning, customer and subcontract negotiations, supply-chain coordination, contract compliance, budget and profitability oversight, commercial risk mitigation, claims and variations support, and stakeholder engagement. The role also assists with strategic commercial planning and ongoing contract changes.

Manage end-to-end procurement for subcontracted works, services, and goods: issue RFPs/RFQs, assess suppliers, negotiate contracts, monitor delivery and compliance, maintain records, conduct market research, manage supplier risk, and support procurement policy and stakeholder alignment.

Define and lead digital ship strategy and digital systems architecture, set standards and governance, specify and integrate onboard capabilities (networks, sensing, data fusion), deliver digital twin scope, engage suppliers, and support test, validation and commissioning across naval programmes.

Lead definition, integration and assurance of ship automation, control and monitoring systems. Own architectures, specifications, supplier interfaces, I/O lists, hazard analysis and systems engineering activities, and support digital twins and simulation while mentoring junior engineers.

Manage end-to-end procurement for subcontracted works, services, and goods: prepare RFPs/RFQs/contracts, assess suppliers, lead negotiations, monitor delivery and compliance, maintain records, conduct market research, and support procurement policy and risk management.

Provide hands-on first-line application support for PLM and CAD systems in an engineering and manufacturing environment. Own incidents and requests through resolution, diagnose issues, collaborate with central SMEs, support integrated ERP (SAP) environments, build relationships with engineering and production stakeholders, document support procedures, and participate in site digital transformation projects with occasional travel to other sites.

Lead UK and Northern Ireland tax matters: advise on direct/indirect tax, transfer pricing, compliance, audits, customs, risk management, and group alignment. Act as subject-matter expert and main liaison with tax authorities and international tax teams.