Job title: Principal Mechanical Engineer Location: Portsmouth Naval Base We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role. Salary: Up to 60,000 (dependent on skills and experience) What youll be doing: * Lead and conduct early lifecycle engineering activities, including technical investigations, root cause analysis and feasibility studies. Apply engineering theory/technical knowledge to support findings and recommendations * Define equipment/system technical requirements and acceptance routes. Apply and manage requirements to drive the development of design solutions for marine mechanical equipment and systems * Undertake design substantiation via calculation for marine mechanical systems and equipment. This shall include mechanical simulation/analysis in the areas of structures, fluids and heat transfer, incorporating appropriate optimisation and verification/validation (acceptance) routines * Manage technical risk, safety, requirements compliance and design maturity to align with design review gate requirements. Present to engineering design review panels * Produce design/analysis/technical reports, system/equipment specifications, scopes of work and undertake assessment of supplier responses * Liaise with MOD establishments, test facilities, sub-contractors, suppliers and customers as required to satisfy the needs of a project Your skills and experiences: * Be qualified to degree level, or equivalent, in mechanical engineering or similar STEM subject * Ideally professionally registered (CEng) through a relevant professional engineering institution such as the IET, IMechE, IMarEST etc or defined plan to get there. Proactive continuation of professional development * Have experience in application of marine/mechanical engineering in complex industrial/military applications * Competent in assessing mechanical solutions from first principles in support of recognised toolsets * Awareness of project management principles with an ability to consider time, scheduling, cost, and quality factors * Have an awareness of Systems Engineering and the benefits it brings to complex engineering projects * Experienced in applying defence and marine standards, including DefStan, classification society rules, ISO, and relevant regulatory frameworks (MCA, IMO) Benefits: As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts you may also be eligible for an annual incentive. The Warship Technical Authority team: The Warship Technical Authority (WTA) Principal Mechanical Engineer will deliver professional engineering services to Warship Support in the areas of Naval Marine Mechanical Equipment and Systems The Principal Mechanical Engineer will be required to undertake and routinely lead others in activities across the breadth of the engineering lifecycle to support in-service Naval Marine Platforms. They will be responsible for providing mechanical engineering capability across a broad set of challenges to meet the needs of specific Naval platforms, the WTA team and the customer programme