PRINCIPAL MECHANICAL ENGINEER (CONTRACTOR VIA MORSON) - BAE SYSTEMS
(2024-01)
Provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise for complex submarine mechanical systems, supporting engineering managers with planning, coordination, technical decisions, and delivery of engineering activities across the lifecycle. Experienced in Air & Gas systems, HVAC, Diesel Generators (DGs), and Secondary Propulsion (Sec Pro) Cooling systems, providing system design support, integration, requirements management, and technical problem resolution.
- Manage and mature system requirements using DOORS throughout the engineering V-cycle, leading verification and validation (V&V), traceability, and compliance activities.
- Own technical risks and design maturity, identifying engineering challenges, defining mitigation strategies, and managing work packages to de-risk programme delivery.
- Lead and support engineering artefact development and updates, including System Design Descriptions (SDD), Design Safety Justifications (DSJ), Interface Control Documents (ICDs), Transversal requirements, Technical Specifications, engineering calculations, and technical reports.
- Provide engineering input into PDR, CDR, and technical decision panels, applying pragmatic engineering judgement to balance safety, performance, cost, schedule, manufacturability, and programme benefits.
- Carry out end-to-end design solutions from customer requirements through design, integration, qualification, and acceptance, ensuring compliance with defence standards and system requirements.
- Perform and review mechanical engineering assessments including pressure loss, hydraulic analysis, compressed air load management, and system performance calculations.
- Manage supplier technical relationships, reviewing technical submissions, supporting design reviews, resolving engineering issues, and ensuring supplier deliverables meet programme requirements.
- Technical activities including supplier's Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), trials, qualification, and system verification, ensuring equipment maturity and successful integration.
- Support engineering teams through technical mentoring, design reviews, document approval, and collaboration with customers, suppliers, and multidisciplinary stakeholders.
SYSTEM ENGINEERING MANAGER (CONTRACTOR) - THALES UK LTD - CHEADLE
(2023-10 - 2024-01)
- Managing end-to-end requirements with DOORS across the V-model, maintaining traceability, supporting design verification, and ensuring solutions meet operational and stakeholder needs.
- Participation in the preparation and presentation of system level design reviews
- Leading IVVQ planning and execution, coordinating subsystem integration, verification, and validation, ensuring systems meet safety, performance, and operational requirements.
- Engaging with customers and end-users to capture operational needs, provide technical guidance, and ensure alignment with system design and performance objectives.
- Leading requirements sell-off and contract acceptance with customers, ensuring mutual agreement, traceability, and compliance with contractual and technical standards
- Working closely with the software, firmware, and hardware development teams to specify practical implementations and optimisations of the system design.
ENGINEERING SYSTEMS LEAD (CONTRACTOR) - ACTEMIUM DESIGN - CHORLEY
(2023-07 - 2023-10)
- Supporting the preparation of bids and tenders alongside the project team including providing technical solutions, designs, costing, and timescales to ensure pricing is optimised based on client technical specifications.
- Managing requirements throughout V-lifecycle & leading, managing and developing interfaces for the systems.
- Effectively engaging with all the stakeholders, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and the end client regularly ensure meeting business needs and providing technical solutions for each project stage.
- Adapting to new processes and identifying opportunities and risks associated with the processes.
- Leading the engineering team, carrying out a gap analysis of the systems considering technology, performance skill and safety gaps, cost-benefit analysis and risk assessments, writing reports and conducting risk assessments of requirements and procedures.
- Conduct optioneering at the sub-system and component level in collaboration with stakeholders to select effective options.
- Developing and managing system, sub-systems, component and parts level requirements.
- Compliance with the Engineering governance established by MoD, including policy, framework processes, and design reviews.
- Working with the Engineering and design teams to derive and manage system and sub-system requirements.
- Managing activities and documentation regarding requirements traceability.
- Leading Validation, Verification, Test, and Acceptance tasks (IVVIQA).
- Contributing to the creation, construction, testing, and evaluation of solutions.
PRINCIPAL ENGINEER (DREADNOUGHT PROGRAMME - CONTRACTOR) - BAE SYSTEMS
(2021-06 - 2023-07)
Successfully oversaw complex engineering requirements covering technical engineering, testing, and commissioning in line with the project programme and technical standards. Built a high-performing technical engineering team focused on quality, compliance, and timely delivery, including working across integrated work packages, departments, and suppliers. Led the completion of complex technical systems, including diagnostics, reviewing technical issues and resolving them efficiently in line with functional requirements and standards.
- Responsible for managing project engineering requirements across work packages in line with the overall programme including engineering verification, validation, V lifecycle, technical authority, and approvals.
- Experienced in writing safety reports DSEAR, ALARP optioneering, CCA, CSTA, DSJ, and application of SIL 2 / SIL 3 to the BoM
- Managing technical engineering issues and commercial requirements in line with the agreed contract and budgets including participating in the technical and commercial negotiations with suppliers.
- Reviewing and coordinating engineering activities covering designs, technical specifications, and management of the engineering elements during construction activities.
- Providing engineering advice and support across complex engineering requirements and specifications including submarine acceptance build, test, and commissioning activities.
- Ensuring all project engineering and technical requirements align with industry best practice and quality standards throughout the project lifecycle.
- Overseeing all engineering designs covering project-engineering requirements in line with the agreed operational framework and engineering standards (Def Stan, SUBSPEC, Ship Spec) including approving all engineering designs covering the entire lifecycle of the submarine.
- Liaising with the project team as Principal Engineer as part of programme governance across multiple workstreams, engineering specifications and programme stages including construction, testing, and commissioning.
- Developing project definitions align with the overall technical specifications and project plan to ensure all the system design D5 are identified, documented, and completed on time.
SUPPORTABILITY ENGINEER (DREADNOUGHT - CONTRACTOR) - BABCOCK INTERNATIONAL
(2020-04 - 2021-06)
Delivered all the technical engineering designs, documentation, and analysis across the complete programme covering build, testing, and commissioning on time and to technical specifications. Successfully delivered MTA, LoRA and RCM analysis working packages to the DN Alliance team within budget, on time and to specification.
- Leading the technical interface with internal colleagues and ext
