Performance Engineer
Location: Southampton – hybrid, 3 days per week on-site
Salary: £45-65K plus excellent benefits package
About the Opportunity
Our client is a fast-growing maritime technology business developingwind-assisted propulsion systems that help reducefuel consumption andemissions across global shipping.
They are now looking to appoint aPerformance Engineer to join their growing team. This is a rare opportunity for someone with strong experience working withreal-world engineering data,telemetry, or industrial systems to help shape how performance is measured, understood, and improved across a growing fleet of commercial vessels.
Working acrossengineering,software, and commercial teams, you will own the end-to-enddata and insight pipeline, designing how operational data flows from onboard systems through to internal engineering tools and customer-facing reporting. You will play a central role in ensuring performance is captured accurately and translated into meaningful insight that supports engineering improvement, reliability decisions, and validated fuel-saving claims.
Key Requirements
You will be an analytically strongPerformance Engineer, Data Engineer,Marine Performance Analyst,Industrial Data Engineer,Fleet Performance Engineer, or similar, with experience working withreal-world engineering or industrial data and turning complex information into clear, actionable insight. You should bring:
- Degree qualification inEngineering, Naval Architecture,Data Science,Physics, or a related technical discipline
- Solid experience working withreal-world engineering or industrial data
- Experience building and maintainingdata pipelines and processing workflows
- Strong analytical capability, with the ability to interpret complex datasets and translate them into clear insight
- Experience developingdashboards orreporting tools for both technical and non-technical users
- Exposure to data fromphysical systems such assensors,telemetry, orindustrial equipment
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to present data in a commercially meaningful way
- A proactive and structured approach, with the confidence to work in a fast-moving environment
Desirable experience includes:
- Experience withinmarine,energy, or other industrial environments
- Exposure toreliability analysis orperformance modelling
- Familiarity withscalable orcloud-based data systems
- Experience supporting customer-facing reporting or performance validation
- Understanding of how data can support product development and commercial decision-making
Role & Responsibilities
AsPerformance Engineer, you will own the flow of operational data from onboard systems through to engineering insight and customer reporting, helping to close the loop betweenreal-world operation andproduct development. Responsibilities will include:
- Owning the end-to-enddata andinsight pipeline across operational performance reporting
- Designing how data flows fromonboard systems into internal engineering tools and customer-facing outputs
- Building and maintainingdata pipelines, workflows, and reporting processes
- Developingdashboards and reporting tools to support internal teams and external stakeholders
- Translating complex operational datasets into clear conclusions and actionable recommendations
- Supporting engineering improvements,reliability decisions, and validatedfuel-saving claims
- Working closely withengineering,software, andcommercial teams to improve how data is structured, automated, and applied
- Continuously improving reporting accuracy, usability, and scalability as the fleet grows
- Helping to define how product performance is measured, understood, and communicated across the business
Why Join?
This is a rare opportunity to join a business developingreal-world clean technology for the global shipping market. You will benefit from:
- Working onreal climate-impact hardware
- High levels ofownership in a growing and ambitious business
- The opportunity to shape theproduct performance feedback loop at a defining stage of growth
- Broad exposure acrossengineering,data, software, andcommercial teams
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