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About the Role

Amentum is seeking proactive and collaborative Marine Systems Engineers of various experience levels to support the delivery of high-quality services to clients in the Defence sector. You will play a key role in shaping complex Defence platforms from concept through design and delivery, ensuring robust and coherent solutions that underpin mission-critical capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyse, and manage stakeholder and system requirements, ensuring traceability across the lifecycle.
• Develop system architectures and design artefacts, including functional, logical, and physical views.
• Support decomposition of requirements from system to subsystem and component levels.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, and integration teams to ensure coherent and feasible system designs.
• Support verification and validation planning, ensuring requirements are testable and aligned to acceptance criteria.
• Contribute to documentation and governance artefacts in line with MOD and industry standards.
• Examine key design drivers, standards and requirements.

Requirements

• Degree qualification in Marine Engineering (or related subject such as Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering etc) at either Bachelor’s or Master’s level.
• Be a Chartered Engineer, Incorporated Engineer, or show evidence of ongoing CPD towards Chartered status.
• Proven ability to solve complex marine systems engineering problems, including/such as trade-off analysis and design trade studies.
• Experience in marine or naval systems engineering, ideally on warship or submarine design studies (especially surface combatants).
• Experience of working on naval ship studies and design activity during ship acquisition.
• Specifically, translating customer ideas and capability requirements, into design solutions and exploiting Defence Standards to shape/define design elements.
• Ability to work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Able to obtain a security clearance.
• Proven experience as a Marine Systems Engineer within Defence or complex system environments with a strong understanding of marine systems engineering principles and lifecycle models (e.g. V-model, Agile, hybrid approaches).
• Experience of working with stakeholders to determine their needs and generating the highest level of system requirements, based on the users' needs and other constraints.
• Ability, experience and proof of producing high quality, well-structured and logically written reports within tight timescales that clearly communicate an understanding of the task, the work carried out, conclusions and recommendations made to the sponsor.

Skills

• Marine Systems Engineering
• Defence Sector
• System Architectures
• Requirements Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Verification and Validation Planning
• Documentation
• Governance
• Naval Ship Studies
• Design Activity
• Customer Requirements Translation
• Defence Standards Exploitation
• Multi-disciplinary Teamwork
• V-model
• Agile
• Hybrid Approaches

Location

• Hybrid

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Flexible working hours
• Flexible working patterns
• Flexible locations

Experience Level

• All levels of experience

Education Level

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree
• Chartered Engineer
• Incorporated Engineer

Benefits

• Free single medical cover
• Digital GP service
• Enhanced parental leave pay
• Free membership of employee assistance programmes
• Free membership of parental programmes
• Reimbursement towards relevant professional development
• Reimbursement towards relevant professional memberships

About the Company

• For more than 100 years, Amentum has tackled the world’s toughest challenges to deliver agile and steadfast solutions to the U.S. government and its allies.
• With more than 50,000 employees on all seven continents and in more than 60 countries, Amentum delivers a broad range of operational support services to meet the critical needs of our clients.
• Our headquarters are in Chantilly, VA.
• Find us online at https://www.amentum.com/

Equal Opportunity

• As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy.
• We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.
• EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans Labor Laws Posters