Project Engineer

Unleash the Power of Multi-Mission Excellence: Safeguarding the Seas for the World's Navies.

Step into a world where cutting-edge technology meets unparalleled expertise. Ultra Maritime pioneers delivering multi-mission solutions that protect and empower the naval forces worldwide. With our extensive portfolio of capabilities, our innovations are utilised on naval fleets across our allied navies around the globe.

As the maritime and underwater battlespace evolves, we tirelessly push the boundaries to develop advanced specialist systems that provide our 'five-eyes' Defence customers with an unbeatable warfighting edge. From surface vessels to sub-surface operations and unmanned platforms, we are revolutionizing the way naval missions are executed.

We thrive on collaboration and partnering with our customers to ensure mission success. Our expert solutions encompass an array of game-changing technologies, including state-of-the-art sonar, radar, expendables, signature management, and naval power systems.

Join us in shaping the future of naval warfare and together, we will safeguard the seas and empower navies worldwide!

Flexible Working

At Ultra Maritime, we understand that your personal life is just as important as your professional one. That's why we support and promote flexible working arrangements where possible. Whether you prefer a hybrid model, working remotely, or the structure of being on-site, we will support you as best as we can. Embrace the freedom to shape your work hours according to your needs, whether it's part-time, compressed hours, or a unique arrangement that suits your lifestyle.

Rugeley embraces flexibility by offering adaptable start and finish times, empowering you to find the perfect balance between your professional and personal commitments. Bid farewell to rigid schedules and embrace the freedom to design your workday around your unique needs.

It's the 'innovating' and 'empowering' values that we ASPIRE to be. We welcome the challenge to work in new ways and have trust in you when getting the job done because we recognise, our business is our people.

Job Description

The role would suit someone looking for a diverse and interesting engineering role in a business that takes pride in the products we produce. A proactive approach will enable the holder to expand their capabilities, to be successful, a willingness to learn and great interpersonal communication are essential.

Role Description:

You will be part of a broad team of enthusiastic engineers who provide critical products that protect lives. You will be designing the products, capturing the information, talking to both internal and external customers. You will use your diverse engineering capabilities to take action and progress projects, making decisions daily across the business functions, assisting with production and procurement from an engineering perspective.

You will actively learn tackling new problems with a sense of urgency and enthusiasm. Creating new and better methods or working is central to the Ultra Way, continuously improving all that we do through cultivating innovation to bring new ideas, new ways of looking at problems with diversity of thought.

Skills

Due to the breadth of the role, we do not expect you to come with all of the skills, we do expect you to be an active learner, and we will provide you with an environment and opportunity from working with colleagues with considerable expertise that will allow you to grow.

Electrical

• Interaction with suppliers in selecting components and resolving issues
• Design of electrical systems and component selection
• Definition of manufacturing information
• Electrical schematics
• Procurement specification
• Test specifications
• Systems
• Working with and managing requirements
• Systems Integration
• Working with equipment in a lab to demonstrate basic functionality and take the equipment through qualification and verification stages.

Mechanical

• Interface between electrical system and mechanical system
• Basic understanding of mechanical aspects of design
• Thermal design
• Shock design
• Packaging
• Materials and coatings
• ILS & Documentation

Production of documentation including:

• Management plans
• Technical reports
• ILS documentation
• Safety documentation
• Availability, Reliability, Maintainability Documentation
• Support & Obsolescence plans
• Customer specific documentation

Manufacturing

• Support of product through initial phases of manufacturing
• Liaise with suppliers through manufacturing phase to resolve issues.

Qualifications & Experience

• Educated as a minimum to HNC in Electrical/ Electronic Engineering
• Ability to work in a team
• Have good familiarity with MS Office including Excel
• Rapid learner, flexible and adaptable engineer willing to undertake varied tasks related to the support of the electrical design and surrounding system
• An understanding of electrical schematic capture and drawing review

Behaviours

Effective Communication - working with a diverse range of colleagues from all departments you will recognise and be able to communicate effectively.

Collaborates - building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet our shared objectives.

Cultivates innovation - creating new and better ways for us to be successful.

Decision quality - making good and timely decisions that keep us moving forward.

Nimble learning - actively learning through experimentation and tackling new problems using both successes and failures as learning material.

Customer focus - building strong customer relationships and delivering customer centric solutions

Action oriented - taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm

Instils trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty integrity and authenticity

Plans and aligns - planning and prioritising work to meet commitment aligned with organisational goals

Ensures Accountability - holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.

Note: All candidates must be eligible to achieve the relevant security vetting level applicable to the role.

If you're ready to take your career to new heights and be part of something extraordinary, apply now and let's shape the future together!

Relocation Support

Attracting high-level talent and people that can add value and expertise, is vital to our success. Attracting and retaining brilliant people is imperative so that's why we search across the UK for talent. We offer financial support to candidates that are considering relocating; this is considered on a case-by-case basis per role and subject to HMRC guidelines.

Nationality Requirements

Candidates must be eligible to obtain the relevant security clearance required for the role, due to the nature of the programmes we deliver for our customers.

Diverse & Inclusive Employer

Ultra Maritime is an equal opportunities employer that values diversity, inclusion, equity and equality. Underpinned by our values, behaviours, and policies, we want you to feel empowered to be your best and authentic self.

We promote a workplace that welcomes people from all backgrounds and cultures; believing that this will increase our diversity of thinking, and ultimately ensure we continue delivering on our commitments to our customers.

We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status and welcome applications from all candidates.