AACE Ltd
Maritime Safety Engineer
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Job Title: Maritime Safety Engineer (Various Levels)
Industry: Maritime Defence
Location: UK Wide (predominantly South West)
Salary: Negotiable - dependent on background, qualification, and experience
Job Description:
AACE has a number of excellent opportunities for qualified and experienced maritime safety engineers. We are looking for motivated individuals who want to have a meaningful impact on the delivery of our growing maritime capability. You will be working with a team of subject matter experts providing safety advice, guidance, and leadership in a range of surface and sub-surface projects and programmes.
Our maritime safety engineers regularly deliver safety artefacts and provide independent and assured safety advice to our clients. We are looking for individuals who will support the delivery of safety projects to time, cost, and quality, whilst meeting client and company expectations. Your knowledge and experience of safety and risk management techniques, processes, and concepts will allow you to support our clients to understand and comply with UK safety legislation and all aspects of safety, particularly UK MOD Safety policy.
As a Small and Medium Enterprise (SME), your day-to-day will vary. You can look forward to learning new technical skills through exposure to a wide variety of project work, as well as consultancy skills such as business development and bid writing. AACE is committed to your development, and will work with you to understand your individual needs and plan to make you the best engineer you can be.
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Key skills and experience:
- Essential: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent in an appropriate engineering discipline;
- Essential: Experience in maritime safety engineering (ex-military and / or candidates with comparable industry experience);
- Essential: Detailed working knowledge and / or experience in the MOD safety processes such as Defence Safety Authority (DSA) regulations, DEFSTAN 00-056, JSP 430, and the Project Oriented Safety Management System (POSMS) or similar;
- Essential: Ability to hold SC security clearance;
- Essential: Authoring skills for safety documents including, but not limited to: hazard logs, safety case reports, and ALARP justifications / statements;
- Essential: Competent with the full MS Office 365 suite of applications;
- Essential: Excellent communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills and the ability to apply these confidently at all levels;
- Desirable: Qualifications in safety engineering, including, but not limited to:
- Ship Safety Management Office (SSMO);
- Safety and Environmental Management Training (SEMT);
- Marine Engineering Management Training (MEMT);
- ISO 9001 Quality Management; or
- International Safety Management (ISM) Code Auditor.
- Desirable: Experience in the use of Safety Engineering tools and techniques including, but not limited to: Reliability Workbench, ASCE, BowTie, Event Tree Analysis (ETA) or Fault Tree Analysis;
- Desirable: Incorporated or Chartered Engineer membership in a relevant professional body.
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Why Join AACE?
AACE is a Bristol-based, family-owned company and an established SME with valued employees working in close-knit teams:
- Industry-competitive salary based on experience / qualifications;
- Flexible and hybrid working;
- 28 days annual holiday plus public holidays;
- Company pension (2% employee contribution to 6% company contribution);
- Private healthcare (option to include partner and children at subsidized rates);
- Discretionary bonus scheme based on individual performance / business development efforts;
- Support for Continual Professional Development (CPD) including training, qualifications, and peer-to-peer learning and development.
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