Jobs at Navantia UK

Manage employee relations within a unionised manufacturing facility, including grievances, disciplinary matters, investigations, conflict resolution, and union liaison. Ensure compliance with UK employment law, company policies, and collective agreements. Train managers and employees, improve absence-management practices and sickness absence metrics, and report employee-relations trends and outcomes to senior management.

Leads major defense and maritime bid programs from qualification through submission and contract award. Coordinates engineering, commercial, finance, legal, sales, operations, and external partners while managing scope, schedules, budgets, risks, governance, deliverables, and stakeholder communications. Improves bid and project-management processes, supports pricing and cost estimation, facilitates reviews, and ensures compliant, competitive proposals for high-value UK MOD and other strategic opportunities.

Coordinates learning and development activities, including training schedules, invitations, attendance, venues, records, learning systems, reports, materials, feedback, onboarding, suppliers, invoices and training budgets. The role supports leadership development programs, responds to employee and manager queries, maintains audit documentation, and contributes to improving L&D processes and employee learning experiences.

The HR Systems & Process Analyst improves end-to-end HR processes, gathers and translates business requirements, supports HR system enhancements, data migration, testing, reporting, and technology-enabled transformation. The role works across HR, IT, vendors, and project teams to identify efficiencies, improve data quality, develop reporting and dashboards, support change adoption, and deliver measurable operational benefits.

Acts as a strategic HR advisor to business leaders, supporting workforce planning, succession, recruitment, employee relations, engagement, performance, organizational change, compliance, and HR analytics. The role provides guidance on employment law, manages complex employee relations matters, supports payroll and HR data accuracy, and contributes to an inclusive workplace. This site-based position may involve travel, overnight trips, and extended hours.

Manage end-to-end monthly payroll across UK and Northern Ireland for salaried and hourly workforces. Responsibilities include timesheet reconciliation, statutory payments and deductions, HMRC filings, pensions, audits, payroll journals, expatriate payroll support, and employee queries. The role also modernizes Excel-based processes through cloud payroll automation, API-enabled workflows, and Time and Attendance integrations while mentoring payroll staff and partnering with HR, Finance, and operations.

Leads integrated external campaigns supporting major defence and maritime opportunities. Develops campaign strategies, stakeholder engagement programmes, messaging, content, events and digital activity. Coordinates agencies and cross-functional teams, monitors political and stakeholder developments, advises leaders on risks and opportunities, and tracks campaign performance. Works closely with business development, commercial and programme teams to align communications and engagement with growth, capture and bid strategies.

Oversee procurement activities across subcontracts, equipment, consumables, and services. Develop sourcing strategies, select and manage suppliers, negotiate contracts, conduct performance reviews, and support cost-saving and sustainability initiatives. Coordinate procurement with project and production schedules while ensuring compliance, timely delivery, and value. The role also requires leadership, supplier relationship management, and use of procurement and ERP systems.

Provides administrative support to operations by maintaining employee time, attendance, payroll, holiday, absence, and training records. Responsibilities include data entry, payroll verification, onboarding administration, document control, work order and drawing printing, training coordination, filing, reporting, and confidential information management. The role requires strong Microsoft Office skills, numerical accuracy, organization, communication, and discretion in a busy office environment.

Develops and manages electrical and instrumentation work packages for marine and naval vessel construction, installation, testing, and commissioning. Reviews designs and technical drawings, converts engineering information into production work instructions, supports installation teams, manages subcontractor performance, and coordinates with engineering, planning, production, supply chain, and commissioning functions. Ensures work packages include safety, quality, inspection, testing, handover, schedule, KPI, and cost-control requirements.

Provides employee relations support across unionised manufacturing sites, handling grievances, disciplinary matters, investigations, conflict resolution, and union engagement. Ensures consistent application of UK employment law and company policies, delivers ER training, monitors trends, and advises senior leaders. Requires strong communication, mediation, problem-solving, and prioritisation skills, plus CIPD Level 5 or equivalent experience. Candidates must complete BPSS security clearance during onboarding.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.