NAVAL ARCHITECT / MARINE ENGINEER

Position Purpose

Naval architecture, marine and mechanical design activities involving design tasks associated with commercial ship modifications and new construction.

Qualifications/Experience

Essential

• Bachelor of Engineering (Naval Architecture)

Alternative Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering (Ocean Engineering) or
• Bachelor of Engineering (Marine & Offshore Engineering) or
• Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering)

Skills and Competencies

• Capability to calculate weight estimates and vessel hydrostatics
• Capability to perform trim and stability calculations
• Competent in structure design to classification society rules
• Competent in vessel component design and mechanical services design
• Quality assurance documentation skills

Generic Responsibilities

• Produce, check and approve concept, detail and construction drawings
• Issue work to trades pool, including technical drawings to trades pool
• Provides necessary advice to trades pool
• Ensure version control on all drawings
• Provide design calculations for projects
• Follow all Business Management Procedures that relate to this position

Project specific Responsibilities

• Liaise with clients
• Liaise with class, flag and ship owners as required
• Produce project specific documentation as directed by Project Manager
• Maintain version control on all drawings and documentation
• Ensure incoming equipment/goods are inspected prior to acceptance
• Ensure outgoing goods and products are inspected and signed off prior to use or dispatch
• Maintain OH&S requirements

Authorities

• Approve the issue of, and any changes to, drawings for construction
• Provide advice to the trades pool in relation to projects

Expectations – Health Safety Environment and Quality

Comply with Taylor Bros Marine WHSE&Q policies and procedures to ensure a safe workplace.

• It is an expectation to follow all reasonable directions and work as directed. Taylor Bros reserves the right to review this position description (PD).
• Taylor Bros strongly encourages all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
• Identify workplace hazards and take corrective action with your supervisor’s guidance.
• There is no safe level of drug use. Attend alcohol or drug testing as directed.
• Ensure visitors and staff for which you are responsible have completed the necessary WH&S inductions.

Required

• Report changes of circumstances: Contact details, situational details, loss of licences, medical fitness, injuries workplace and non-workplace etc.

• Teamwork and Collaboration: Cooperates with others to achieve organisational objectives and may share team resources in order to do this. Collaborates with other teams as well as industry colleagues.

• Influence and Communication: Identifies critical stakeholders and influences them via an influential third party, for example through an established network, to gain support for sometimes contentious, proposals/ideas.

• Resource Management/Leadership: Provides leadership that fosters an environment that encourages new ideas and provides support for the development of emerging skills. Creates trust by displaying consistency, understanding, integrity and patience. Plans, seeks, allocates and monitors resources to achieve outcomes.

• Judgement and Problem Solving: Anticipates and manages problems in ambiguous situations. Develops and selects an appropriate course of action and provides for contingencies. Evaluates, interprets and integrates complex bodies of information and draws logical conclusions, synthesises proposals and defends options with reasoned arguments.

• Independence: Assesses the risk and opportunity of identified strategies, options and actions. Overcomes problems and setbacks in achieving goals. Invariably includes consideration of value-added future impact on bottom line when determining the optimal and efficient use of resources.

• Adaptability: Demonstrates flexibility in thinking and adapts to and manages the increasing rate of organisational change by adjusting strategies, goals and priorities.

Tagged as: naval architect/ marine engineer