Jobs at Navantia UK

Provides onsite first-line support for business-critical PLM, CAD, engineering, manufacturing, and other business applications. Diagnoses access, configuration, licensing, functionality, and application errors; owns incidents and requests through resolution; supports end users directly; escalates complex issues to specialists; maintains documentation; and assists with application upgrades, deployments, and continuous improvement.

Monitors and controls project costs, maintains budgets, analyzes variances, prepares forecasts and financial reports, and supports project managers, procurement, and finance teams. The role maintains accurate cost records, identifies financial risks, supports budget reallocations and contingency management, ensures compliance, and provides financial guidance to project teams. It also contributes to audits, stakeholder communication, and cost-management training.

Manage employee relations within a unionised manufacturing facility, including grievances, disciplinary matters, investigations, conflict resolution, and union liaison. Ensure compliance with UK employment law, company policies, and collective agreements. Train managers and employees, improve absence-management practices and sickness absence metrics, and report employee-relations trends and outcomes to senior management.

Provides administrative support to operations by maintaining employee time, attendance, payroll, holiday, absence, and training records. Responsibilities include data entry, payroll verification, onboarding administration, document control, work order and drawing printing, training coordination, filing, reporting, and confidential information management. The role requires strong Microsoft Office skills, numerical accuracy, organization, communication, and discretion in a busy office environment.

Supports naval architecture and ship design for new-build, repair, conversion, and modernisation projects. Responsibilities include stability and hydrodynamic assessments, weight and centre-of-gravity calculations, structural and hull-form design, technical documentation, CAD modelling, design reviews, regulatory compliance, and vessel assurance activities. The role includes mentoring and structured development toward Chartered Engineer status, with occasional work at vessels, shipyards, and project sites.

Drives sales growth across offshore oil and gas, tanker, and bulk carrier markets. Identifies opportunities, manages client relationships and key accounts, develops bids and proposals, negotiates contracts, and achieves revenue and margin targets. Collaborates with estimating, engineering, operations, and leadership teams to deliver tailored solutions. Monitors market and competitor activity, identifies cross-selling opportunities, prepares forecasts and reports, and supports risk assessment and contract finalization.

Manage procurement of materials, equipment, components, and services for shipbuilding projects. Source and evaluate suppliers, negotiate contracts, control costs, mitigate supply chain risks, process purchase orders, track deliveries, and monitor inventory. Collaborate with project, engineering, and production teams to forecast needs, ensure compliance, review supplier performance, and identify savings. The role may also involve mentoring Buyers and supporting procurement process improvements.