Job Title: Maritime Engineering Manager (Shore-based)

Location: Gosport, Hampshire

Salary: Competitive

Job type: Full-time, Permanent

Closing Date: 11th January 2026.

Are you an experienced Engineer looking for a new opportunity?

The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is a vibrant and growing charity delivering life changing nautical adventure for young people through the Sea Cadets to give them the best possible head start in life. We also provide personal and professional development opportunities for seafarers with the Marine Society. Working with our staff, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a vision and five-year strategy to take us forward and further improve the astounding contribution already made through our work to the lives of thousands of young people and seafarers, while fully supporting our volunteers who are vital to our success.

We are currently looking for an experienced maritime engineering manager to join our team.

About the role:

The shore-based Maritime Engineering Manager will play a key role in sustaining the MSSC’s offshore vessels which provide sea-going experiences for cadets (aged 12-18) and in ensuring the safety of all personnel on board. The main purpose of the role is to provide support to the vessels’ engineer officers with the engineering management and maintenance needs of MSSC’s offshore vessels.

Responsibilities:

• Providing day-to-day support in identifying defects and safety shortcomings, determining solutions, assisting in rectification or organising cost effective professional repairs at advantageous prices and obtaining replacement parts.
• Producing, overseeing and tracking (technically and financially) the winter maintenance work packages for the fleet.
• Progressive development of MSSC’s Safety Management System & Electronic Planned Maintenance System, related to the technical running and management of each offshore vessel.

About you:

At MSSC Offshore we value attitude, experience and skills, no matter what route you have taken to build your portfolio. The following examples illustrate the type of person we are looking for, but are not exclusive. So long as you can show an equivalent level of experience and skills, and a willingness to learn more, we absolutely want to hear from you.

Personal Attributes:

• High reliability in personal and professional standards, particularly in timekeeping, workload management and engineering standards.
• Confident working with a broad range of people; from briefing VIPs or educating cadets, through to assisting engineers with hands-on maintenance.
• Flexible and resilient, adaptable to change.
• Satisfactory DBS check or equivalent (arranged by MSSC if not already held).
• Ability and willingness to work at sea aboard MSSC vessels both during maintenance prior to the training season and as a relief engineer officer during the sailing season.
• Health and fitness necessary to obtain ENG1 / ML5 medical certification.

Qualifications and Experience

• Engineer with appropriate experience and qualifications for operation up to Area Category 0 under the Small Commercial Vessel Code.

• Suitable examples include: MCA AEC2; Small Vessel Chief Engineer < 500GT & <3,000kW; RN MEOOW plus ICE AdQual; Engineer Officer Certificate of Competency (Fishing Vessel) Class 1 or 2.

• Other equivalent qualifications will be considered.

Experience in both seagoing and shore support roles in the maritime sector. Areas of experience should include safety, equipment operation, maintenance, refit planning and execution.Experience using IT including third-party electronic planned maintenance management systems to support maintenance planning.Fluency with Office 365 core applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint).Evidence of effective liaison and strong working relationships with third parties, such as ship and shore staff, external authorities, suppliers and contractors.

Benefits

• 25 working days pro rata of paid holiday per annum, plus public and bank holidays observed in England and Wales, increasing to 29 days after two years’ service.
• Life assurance (4x salary) for those who opt to join the pension scheme.
• Private medical insurance.
• Pension (employer contribution up to 10%).
• Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling.
• Employee development: We are investing in our employees’ development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential.
• National staff conference: All employees come together once a year to reflect on the past year and celebrate success at our offsite staff conference. This is a great opportunity to listen to employees’ views, and for employees to network, share information and socialise.

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Candidates with experience of; Shore-Based Marine Engineering Manager, Marine Technical Manager, Fleet Engineering Manager, Fleet Technical Manager, Maritime Technical Operations Manager will also be considered for this role.