Description
Weights Engineer
Glasgow
Job Description
Purpose of role:
To undertake a defined range of weight control activities in line with all relevant processes and quality requirements, supplying advice and support to operations and other functions and/or to organise and co-ordinate aspects of weight control activity ensuring defined objectives are achieved whilst continually maintaining quality and service requirements.
Key Technical Skills
- Possesses in-depth knowledge of all aspects within weight control.
- Able to perform robust analysis using recognised draughting and analytical tools and to make sound judgements based on experience.
- Has sufficient breadth of knowledge of warship design, basic Naval Architecture and the sound judgement needed to be able make correct trade-off decisions
- Provide technical support and troubleshooting responses in assigned areas to operational units or other activities.
Key Leadership/People Mgmt Skills
- Requires good team leadership skills and the ability to show the 'the lead' to other functions of the requirements for precise and rigorous weight control.
Key Interpersonal/Behavioural Skills
- Achieves and sustains a standard of excellence in drive and commitment.
- Demonstrates Focus on Order through monitoring work packages or projects
- Demonstrates Customer Focus through forging partnerships that shape customer expectations.
- Supports a developmental environment that supports the development of others.
Researches when digging for information
Responsibilities
Major Tasks and Activities:
- Support developing, maintaining and modifying engineering processes and procedures in assigned areas in response to technical developments and operational need.
- Produce and develop weight information in line with specifications and all quality, cost, schedule and technical requirements,
- Carry out weight control appraisals in assigned areas to ensure all standards are maintained.
- Carry out investigations into operational problems, develop and prepare solutions, individually or as a member of the Production Design team
- To act as focal point for weight control specific tasks ensuring best practices are adopted by providing expertise of own discipline to teams
- To identify training requirements, skills gaps and development requirements.
- Support the development of best practice to increase the capability, performance of tools and processes
Additional Key Accountabilities:
- Provide help and direction to less experienced team members to support effective working and their development.
- Reviewing and checking of data compiled by Weight Engineers.
- Processing weight information for Projects using appropriate processes and tools.
- Calculating weights and centres information
- Checking of SC, ECR's and impact on weight.
- Manage assigned budgets and lead, develop and motivate assigned employees to ensure they are aware of and capable of delivering their accountabilities.
- Make engineering decisions within own sphere of responsibility and delegated authority.
The Individual
Key Interpersonal/Behavioural Skills
- Achieves and sustains a standard of excellence in drive and commitment.
- Demonstrates Focus on Order through monitoring work packages or projects
- Demonstrates Customer Focus through forging partnerships that shape customer expectations.
- Supports a developmental environment that supports the development of others.
- Researches when digging for information
Qualifications:
- Typically HNC/HND qualified, as there is no Weight qualification a minimum of 5 years experience is required.
- Meet the requirements for registration As Incorporated Engineer with the Engineering Council and preferably be a member of a relevant Professional Body
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