Senior Quality / Compliance Engineer

Marine Design Assurance Engineer

Are you an experienced Marine or Shipbuilding Design Engineer with strong checking, verification and quality assurance experience? Do you have the technical expertise to ensure engineering deliverables meet project standards before release to production?

We are seeking a Marine Design Quality & Standards Engineer to act as a key technical authority within our marine design function. This role is ideally suited to an experienced Senior Designer, Senior Detail Design Engineer, Checker or Lead Engineer with extensive shipbuilding or marine experience and a thorough understanding of engineering standards, drawing compliance and quality processes.

The Role

This is a highly visible position focused on ensuring that all engineering and design deliverables comply with project requirements, customer specifications, applicable standards and industry regulations before being released for production.

Acting as a technical "gatekeeper", you will be responsible for the review and verification of both 3D models and 2D engineering drawings, ensuring all outputs align with project standards, design intent and production requirements. You will work closely with engineering, quality and project teams to drive consistency, improve team capability and support continuous improvement across the organisation.

Alongside technical assurance activities, you will play a key role in training, mentoring and developing CAD designers and engineers, helping to establish and maintain high standards of engineering excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Interpret and apply stakeholder requirements, engineering standards, specifications and project design rules. Provide technical assurance that design outputs satisfy design intent, statutory requirements and project standards. Review and check 3D engineering models and 2D production drawings prior to release. Ensure all engineering deliverables comply with customer requirements, project specifications and quality processes. Act as the quality gatekeeper for design outputs issued to production. Verify accuracy, completeness and compliance of engineering documentation. Support engineering administration activities associated with drawing approval, configuration control and document management processes. Identify quality issues, recurring errors and training opportunities. Work closely with engineering and quality teams to develop corrective and preventative actions. Coordinate the creation and delivery of technical training material for the Marine team. Support the training, mentoring and upskilling of CAD Designers and Design Engineers. Assist Team Leads with development planning, competency assessments and skills matrix management. Support quality control initiatives and continuous improvement activities to enhance team efficiency and engineering quality.

Essential Experience

Significant experience within marine, shipbuilding or offshore engineering environments. Strong understanding of shipbuilding design processes, standards and drawing control procedures. Experience checking and approving engineering deliverables prior to issue for manufacture or production. Proven capability reviewing both 3D CAD models and 2D engineering drawings. Experience ensuring compliance against project specifications, standards and customer requirements. Strong attention to detail and a methodical approach to quality assurance. Ability to communicate effectively with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders.

Highly Desirable

Senior checker, lead checker or design verification experience within shipbuilding programmes. Experience acting as a technical authority or quality focal point. Experience supporting production drawing release processes. Knowledge of engineering governance, configuration management and document control processes. Experience developing training material and mentoring engineering teams. Previous experience on complex vessel design and construction programmes. Experience within UK naval programmes or MOD projects would be advantageous.

Software & Systems Experience

Experience with one or more of the following is desirable:

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Siemens NX SSI ShipConstructor AVEVA Marine Windchill Teamcenter Other Marine CAD and PLM systems

What's on Offer?

Influence the quality and standards of major shipbuilding and marine projects. Play a leading role in developing engineering capability across the business. Work alongside experienced marine engineering professionals. Competitive salary and benefits package.

Apply Today

If you have a strong marine or shipbuilding background and are looking for a role that combines engineering quality assurance, 3D model and 2D drawing checking, standards compliance, technical leadership and people development, we'd love to hear from you.

This vacancy is being advertised by Belcan