Consulting Engineer

A Senior Engineer is required to act as chief engineer for the UK Naval business. This engineer is expected to be appointed as consulting engineer, or to develop to consulting engineer, within the Arabelle Solutions chief engineer’s office. The UK Naval Chief Engineer will report to the Arabelle Steam Turbine Chief Engineer

The consulting engineer is required to:

- Be final engineering approver of the UK Naval machines.
- Chair all relevant technical and design reviews.
- Give advice to the engineering team developing the products (where practical solving issues before they become critical at review stage).
- Be a member of the Arabelle Solutions UKEO (UK eyes only) management team and Steering Team.
- Be a member of the BAES led SIDT (Steam Integrated Development Team) steering team (SIDT). In this role the consulting engineer is expected to help solve issues more broadly than the machine supplied by Arabelle Solutions.
- Assist the Engineering team in resolving technical issues with the customer (and other 3rd party stakeholders).

To achieve this the chief engineer will have:

- The requirements to achieve UK security clearance (including “NNPPI” and “atomic confidential”).
- At least a bachelor’s degree in engineering.
- 20 years+ of experience in the design/application of Steam Turbines. Preferably this includes experience with customers.
- Ability to chair and facilitate discussions thereby using a range of experts to drive clear conclusions, decisions, and actions.
- Preparedness, where necessary, to give difficult and maybe unpopular messages.
- Technical expertise in at least one turbine relevant discipline.
- Ability to use and interpret the expertise of experts in other turbine relevant disciplines. (Where these experts also have the relevant clearances)
- Ability to translate technical issues from the particular naval application to and from general physical descriptions of the problem so that, were necessary, Arabelle Experts without security clearance can contribute.
- Network within Arabelle Solutions. (Ideally both within Engineering and within Arabelle management)
- Interest in developing the expertise of other engineers.

The engineer will be expected occasionally to travel – for example to Barrow.

From January 2027 to June 2027 the chief engineer is expected to work under the existing "chief engineer". From July 27 onwards the engineer will take the lead role with the current "chief" engineer available to support for the rest of the year.

The UK naval consulting engineer role is expected to take 2 days a week. This engineer is expected to support Arabelle Solutions more generally in his area of technical expertise for any further hours.

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