How do they match: Marine Engineers and Naval Architects

  • Marine Service Engineer
  • Propulsion Machinery Service Engineer

  • Act as liaisons between ships' captains and shore personnel to ensure that schedules and budgets are maintained, and that ships are operated safely and efficiently.
  • Confer with research personnel to clarify or resolve problems and to develop or modify designs.
  • Oversee construction and testing of prototype in model basin and develop sectional and waterline curves of hull to establish center of gravity, ideal hull form, and buoyancy and stability data.
  • Prepare technical reports for use by engineering, management, or sales personnel.
  • Schedule machine overhauls and the servicing of electrical, heating, ventilation, refrigeration, water, and sewage systems.

  • Confer with other personnel to resolve design or operational problems.
  • Confer with technical personnel to prepare designs or operational plans.
  • Supervise engineering or other technical personnel.