Naval Architect

Job Title: Master Ship Designer

Work Location:

Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai

About the Role:

As a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Naval Architecture, you will collaborate with our team of data scientists to develop digital solutions for large container ships. Your responsibilities will include helping build ship digital twins, fuel consumption-power curves, vessel hydrodynamic performance models, and predictive models for parametric/synchronous rolling in rough sea conditions.

You will also assist in building solutions for diagnosing hull fouling margins, engine power decomposition, and other related tasks. Your role will involve guiding project teams in understanding business requirements, translating these requirements into actionable tasks, and helping build impactful solutions. You will drive adoption and articulate value throughout the process.

On a typical workday, your tasks may include analyzing container ship operations data, helping conceptualize digital twins for large container vessels, identifying relevant data needed to build digital twins, and providing proactive domain inputs to guide data scientists.

Additionally, you will help build digital twin models that incorporate fuel performance curves, vessel hydrodynamic stability, vessel safety thresholds at bad weather conditions, power decomposition, and other relevant models. You will also model the effects of windage, vessel speed, drift, trim, heel, hull condition, propeller condition, engine condition, wave impact, wind impact, and current impact on fuel consumption.

Further, you will derive parameters such as trim, metacentric height, windage, etc., from various sources of base data for each vessel in scope. You will also help build tactical solutions for avoiding parametric and synchronous rolling, including methods to alert concerned personnel with the right recommendations.

Lastly, you will assist in building AI/ML solutions that recommend vessel speed through water, overconsumption alerts, fouling margin, and other related metrics.

Required Skills, Competencies & Experience:

• 12-20 years of experience in naval architecture - ship design, vessel digital twin, fuel performance curves, etc., for reputed shipping companies or services companies serving the shipping industry.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in conceptualizing and building container vessel fuel consumption curves and other ship hydrodynamic performance models.
• Hands-on experience in building or running solutions like vessel digital twin, vessel hydrodynamic simulation, etc.
• Excellent appreciation and/or experience of data science subjects - simulation, optimization, ML models, etc., that may be relevant to deliver results.
• Excellent consulting skills - leadership in uncertain and ambiguous situations, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills, solutioning, and design thinking skills.
• Excellent communication skills - spoken, written, and client-facing roles.
• Ability to guide teams on developing analytics solution blueprints to client problems balancing business context and technical details.
• Ability to analyze pros-and-cons of different analytic options in the context of multiple business problems and articulate such choices to technical and business audiences.
• Ability to build compelling stories from data/model outputs to convey insights to business stakeholders and drive acceptance/adoption of recommended actions.
• Confident in communicating with director/VP level stakeholders and demonstrate executive presence in interactions with CXO level stakeholders.

Benefits:

The designation will be commensurate with expertise/experience. Compensation packages among the best in the industry.