Role: Weights Engineer

Location: Bristol / Portsmouth / Frimley - Hybrid

Salary: £44,000 - £52,000 depending on experience

Industry: Defence, Marine Engineering, Naval Architecture

As a Weights Engineer you will have the chance to work on naval platforms at all stages of the product life cycle from early design to build support and commission.

The Weight Engineering Team are a multi-disciplinary Team of Engineers and Data Scientists who estimate, collate and present mass properties data for a number of multi billion pound marine engineering programmes.

What the role of the Weights Engineer entails:

Some of the main duties of the Weights Engineer will include:

Collate mass property data for equipment and systems to deliver weight and centroid control on multi billion pound marine engineering programmes Support the Mass Properties Lead to aggregate weight and centroid reports and present the status to the Chief Naval Architect Collaborate with system design engineers to accurate estimate mass, centroid and design maturity of multiple mechanical and electronic systems Maintain a comprehensive database of parts mass properties Provide input to and lead weight saving strategies and maintain the list of weight risk and opportunities for each discipline area Interrogate CAD models to determine estimates for mass properties with associated uncertainties Utilise statistical analysis to provide a whole boat picture of...