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Posted: 12/05/2025
Mechanical Engineer
Role Description
Salary:
Band B, Spine Point Range: £41,520 to £51,900 (commensurate with experience) + workplace pension scheme (employer contribution at 8% of salary)
Primary Location:
Southampton, UK
Status:
Permanent, Full time (salaried 40 hours per week)
Annual Leave:
33 days per year including public holidays
ecoSUB Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are robotic platforms at the leading edge of subsea technology development. They are affordable, intelligently designed and extremely disruptive to the market, markedly increasing accessibility to a wide range of users in research, offshore energy, and defence markets. ecoSUB Robotics division is in the process of growing a strong team of talented engineers to advance the system and achieve the growth plan.
The Mechanical Engineer role is responsible for electro-mechanical design and development of AUV’s. The Mechanical Engineer role will involve supporting colleagues and will benefit from career development opportunities and excellent compensation. The role will involve fieldwork and travel, with time spent at sea guaranteed. Any required offshore training will be provided.
Primary responsibilities:
Essential skills:
Desirable skills:
Experience:
Personal attributes:
What you will get from working with us:
Company:
To apply:
Salary:
Band B, Spine Point Range: £41,520 to £51,900 (commensurate with experience) + workplace pension scheme (employer contribution at 8% of salary)
Primary Location:
Southampton, UK
Status:
Permanent, Full time (salaried 40 hours per week)
Annual Leave:
33 days per year including public holidays
ecoSUB Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are robotic platforms at the leading edge of subsea technology development. They are affordable, intelligently designed and extremely disruptive to the market, markedly increasing accessibility to a wide range of users in research, offshore energy, and defence markets. ecoSUB Robotics division is in the process of growing a strong team of talented engineers to advance the system and achieve the growth plan.
The Mechanical Engineer role is responsible for electro-mechanical design and development of AUV’s. The Mechanical Engineer role will involve supporting colleagues and will benefit from career development opportunities and excellent compensation. The role will involve fieldwork and travel, with time spent at sea guaranteed. Any required offshore training will be provided.
Primary responsibilities:
- Join a small team developing underwater vehicles
- Work closely with mechanical, software and electrical engineers & production staff
- Work within projects to support R&D and production objectives
- Generating complex CAD models and drawings to BS 8888 is a core skill
- Develop and maintain a working understanding of the complete AUV system
- Assist in production technical documentation and manuals
- Work closely with production to ensure smooth transition from R&D to production
- Support personal and career development and activities of the ecoSUB engineering team
Essential skills:
- Relevant CAD experience, Autodesk Inventor preferable
- Engineering knowledge of hydrodynamics, mechanism design, electrical systems and wiring harnesses, payload integration
- Microsoft: Windows, Word, Excel, Teams
Desirable skills:
- FEA Nastran
- Be innovative, self-motivated and pro-active
Experience:
- Ideally minimum of two years of experience in relevant role
- Relevant degree
- Relevant experience of the design and manufacture of complex electro-mechanical systems, ideally within the marine environment
- Fluent in both written and spoken English
Personal attributes:
- The successful candidate will demonstrate a keen interest in new technologies and be excited about the scientific and technical challenges that ecoSUB offers
- Ability to contribute innovative ideas to support product development and projects
- Have a strong ability to work autonomously, with limited direction & supervision
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
What you will get from working with us:
- The opportunity to work on awesome products that are disrupting the AUV market. The chance to build systems and test them in real world environments, spending time at sea during trials activity. The opportunity to work with exciting customers who are using the platforms for cool science and applications. The opportunity to travel and represent the company and extend your technical knowledge, supporting users and solving challenges. Be at the genesis of a strong R&D engineering team that will continue to develop innovative, disruptive autonomous technologies.
Company:
- ecoSUB Robotics is a division of Planet Ocean Limited. R&D activity on ecoSUB AUVs commenced in 2015. The company is currently engaged in a period of high growth and needs to develop its awesome multi-disciplinary team of engineers, supported by sales, marketing, production and business finance/admin colleagues. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion within our team and welcome applications from all candidates with the pre-requisite skills and experience. More information: www.ecosub.uk
To apply:
- For applications, please send your CV and cover letter to: [email protected]
