Job Description
Job Description
Principal Operability and Crewing Engineer
Design ships that are ready for the missions of tomorrow.
Navantia UK is hiring a Principal Operability and Crewing Engineer to shape how operability, automation and digital capability are engineered into complex naval and government vessels from day one. You’ll turn operational concepts (CONOPS) into practical, testable requirements that reduce workload, optimise roles, and credibly enable reduced-crewing and uncrewed concepts.
What you’ll do
- Lead operability and crewing/operator strategy across multiple ship design programmes.
- Develop CONOPS and run operational vignette workshops to stress-test concepts and technology choices.
- Define user-centred, mission-focused requirements that shape layout, accessibility, maintainability, workflow, human factors, and automation/digital systems.
- Develop and champion crew reduction/elimi...