Marine Engineer / Architect
Quick Facts
What They Do
A Marine Engineer or Architect designs, constructs, tests, and maintains ships and other water-going vessels. May specialize in marine engineering and work on the mechanical systems that propel vehicles. May specialize in marine or naval architecture and focus on the basic structure and design of a ship. May specialize in a particular type of vessel, or a system or process involved in ship design.
Core Tasks:
- Perform monitoring activities to ensure that ships comply with international regulations and standards for life-saving equipment and pollution preventatives.
- Design complete hull and superstructure according to specifications and test data, in conformity with standards of safety, efficiency, and economy.
- Conduct analyses of ships, such as stability, structural, weight, and vibration analyses.
- Study design proposals and specifications to establish basic characteristics of craft, such as size, weight, speed, propulsion, displacement, and draft.
- Maintain contact with, and formulate reports for, contractors and clients to ensure completion of work at minimum cost.
- Coordinate activities with regulatory bodies to ensure repairs and alterations are at minimum cost and consistent with safety.
- Check, test, and maintain automatic controls and alarm systems.
- Design layout of craft interior, including cargo space, passenger compartments, ladder wells, and elevators.
- Prepare technical reports for use by engineering, management, or sales personnel.
- Prepare, or direct the preparation of, product or system layouts and detailed drawings and schematics.
- Evaluate performance of craft during dock and sea trials to determine design changes and conformance with national and international standards.
- Inspect marine equipment and machinery to draw up work requests and job specifications.
- Evaluate operation of marine equipment during acceptance testing and shakedown cruises.
- Conduct analytical, environmental, operational, or performance studies to develop designs for products, such as marine engines, equipment, and structures.
- Establish arrangement of boiler room equipment and propulsion machinery, heating and ventilating systems, refrigeration equipment, piping, and other functional equipment.
- Investigate and observe tests on machinery and equipment for compliance with standards.
- Prepare plans, estimates, design and construction schedules, and contract specifications, including any special provisions.
- Design and oversee testing, installation, and repair of marine apparatus and equipment.
- Conduct environmental, operational, or performance tests on marine machinery and equipment.
- Determine conditions under which tests are to be conducted, as well as sequences and phases of test operations.
- Analyze data to determine feasibility of product proposals.
- Confer with research personnel to clarify or resolve problems and to develop or modify designs.
- Review work requests and compare them with previous work completed on ships to ensure that costs are economically sound.
What to expect as a Marine Engineer / Architect
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