JOSH CRONIN
Sydney
Summary
Engineering professional with 11 years' experience in BAE Systems Maritime UK – Submarines. I have attained experience, competence and leadership qualities to work within a team and achieve key milestones and objectives to support the Dreadnaught Submarine build programme. Seeking a position based in Sydney Australia.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
PRINCIPAL CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER
BAE SYSTEMS MARITIME – SUBMARINES
01.2023 - Current
- Principal Construction Engineer supporting the Dreadnaught build programme. Main responsibilities include;
- - All of the below responsibilities in previous role.
- - Responsible for the delegation of work to apprentices within the team. Ensuring knowledge is passed on and checking their output of work from an engineering quality perspective.
- - Providing liaison to suppliers at various sites across the UK. Monthly site visits to provide Engineering support to ensure design intent is being met.
- - Ensuring there is stakeholder involvement on all decisions.
- - Assessing out of tolerance dimensional reports on main structure to determine any downstream impact to secondary structures/equipment/pipework/PED arrangements etc.
SENIOR CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER
BAE SYSTEMS MARITIME – SUBMARINES
08.2020 - 01.2023
- Senior Construction Engineer supporting the build of both Astute Class submarines and the Dreadnaught programme. Main responsibilities include;
- - Providing a link between Production/Operations and Engineering.
- - Raising Production queries using Teamcenter to initiate design change when issues are identified at the build stage.
- - Providing design solutions for job continuation and milestone achievement.
- - Regular use of FORAN and Teamcenter.
SENIOR STRUCTURAL DESIGNER
BAE SYSTEMS MARITIME – SUBMARINES
04.2020 - 08.2020
- Senior Structural Designer within the structural components team. A promotion within the team lead to me taking on more work and responsibility and delegating to other designers. With this role comes a teaching aspect to apprentices and the craft to draft scheme trainees. All Main aspects of a designer role are still undertaken.
STRUCTURAL DESIGNER
BAE SYSTEMS MARITIME – SUBMARINES
03.2018 - 04.2020
- Structural Designer within the Modules – Structural Components Team on the Dreadnaught Submarine Programme. Main responsibilities include;
- - Producing drawing sets for production and creating, editing and manipulating structure within the submarine model.
- - Deriving change within the Lead Ballast Stowage's and Handling all change requests from production.
- - Leading Projects where solutions are worked on ensuring every aspect of design is captured and having all stakeholders in agreement whilst working to a deadline to support build milestones.
- - Overseeing the life cycle management of Lead Ballast BOM's using Teamcenter. Ensuring functional and spatial maturity of each BOM is in line with drawing and model statuses.
STRUCTURAL DESIGNER APPRENTICESHIP
BAE SYSTEMS MARITIME – SUBMARINES
09.2014 - 03.2018
- Structural Design apprenticeship in which the first year is spent at college learning basic workplace qualifications and Engineering skills such as TIG welding, working with lathes and drills, wiring electrical conduits and many more. The following two and a half years are spent in the design office carrying out 6 month placements on the different structural design teams. Each team provides you with an understanding of what they do allowing you to understand each teams role within the business and how they all link together. Once time complete you have an understanding of every teams purpose, I chose to go down the structural components route.
Education
BTEC Mechanical Engineering Level 3 -
FURNESS COLLEGE
06.2016
GCSE'S - undefined
ULVERSTON VICTORIA HIGH SCHOOL
06.2014
Skills
- Structural Steel design knowledge
- Proficient user of CAD - Toolset FORAN
- Proficient user of Siemens - Teamcenter
- Proficient user of Microsoft Office tools
- Proficient user of SAP
- Engineering Design Support
- Managing build defects
Personal Information
Availability: February 2026, Sydney, Australia
Timeline
PRINCIPAL CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER
BAE SYSTEMS MARITIME – SUBMARINES
01.2023 - Current
SENIOR CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER
BAE SYSTEMS MARITIME – SUBMARINES
08.2020 - 01.2023
SENIOR STRUCTURAL DESIGNER
BAE SYSTEMS MARITIME – SUBMARINES
04.2020 - 08.2020
STRUCTURAL DESIGNER
BAE SYSTEMS MARITIME – SUBMARINES
03.2018 - 04.2020
STRUCTURAL DESIGNER APPRENTICESHIP
BAE SYSTEMS MARITIME – SUBMARINES
09.2014 - 03.2018
GCSE'S - undefined
ULVERSTON VICTORIA HIGH SCHOOL
BTEC Mechanical Engineering Level 3 -
FURNESS COLLEGE