Graduate Naval Architect

Naval architects are essential to keeping ships safe throughout their life. This role involves making critical decisions on maintenance and repair, and integrating new capabilities to give the Royal Navy an advantage.

Core Duties

• Designing structural changes, including using FEA.
• Taking part in inclining experiments to assess the stability of ships.
• Contributing to stability analyses using specialist software.
• Contributing to the dry docking of ships.
• Helping inspect ships to understand their state of repair and come up with repair solutions.

The Defence Solutions Team

This team provides Radar products and support services to a diverse range of customers worldwide, including the Royal Navy. You will engage with engineering functions across the business, delivering radar capabilities and development, covering the whole engineering cycle using cutting-edge technology.

Important Information

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Qualifications

As a minimum requirement you must have obtained, or be predicted to obtain, a 2:2 Bachelor’s degree or a pass at Master’s level in the following subjects: Naval Architecture, Ship Science, Maritime Engineering.

Start Date

6th September 2027

Contract Length

Permanent contract