Hydraulic Systems Engineer
Posted 5 days ago by Holt Engineering
Hydraulic Systems Engineer
Havant, Hampshire
£40,000 – £50,000
We are looking for a skilled and practical Hydraulic Systems Engineer to join a busy and fast-paced design team in Havant. This is a great opportunity to work on innovative marine hydraulic systems, supporting the design, development, testing, and delivery of high-quality solutions from concept through to commissioning.
The role will suit someone with a strong background in hydraulic systems design and troubleshooting, who is comfortable working across engineering, production, project, and service functions. You will play a key role in delivering technically robust, reliable, and cost-effective hydraulic solutions for marine applications.
Key Responsibilities
To find out more please contact Max Sinclair (url removed) or hit apply
Havant, Hampshire
£40,000 – £50,000
We are looking for a skilled and practical Hydraulic Systems Engineer to join a busy and fast-paced design team in Havant. This is a great opportunity to work on innovative marine hydraulic systems, supporting the design, development, testing, and delivery of high-quality solutions from concept through to commissioning.
The role will suit someone with a strong background in hydraulic systems design and troubleshooting, who is comfortable working across engineering, production, project, and service functions. You will play a key role in delivering technically robust, reliable, and cost-effective hydraulic solutions for marine applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimise hydraulic systems for marine winches, windlasses, and related equipment.
- Specify and size hydraulic components including pumps, motors, valves, manifolds, cylinders, accumulators, filtration, and pipework.
- Support both new product development and legacy system upgrades, redesigns, and obsolescence management.
- Work closely with mechanical, electrical, project, production, and service teams to ensure effective system integration.
- Engage directly with customers and yards to understand requirements and provide practical engineering solutions.
- Provide hands-on support during build, assembly, testing, installation, and commissioning.
- Define and witness FAT/HAT testing, then analyse results to refine and improve system performance.
- Produce and maintain hydraulic schematics, technical drawings, BOMs, specifications, and test reports.
- Support project delivery, technical risk management, change control, and post-delivery service activity.
- Drive continuous improvement in system reliability, sustainability, and maintainability.
- Strong understanding of hydraulic system design, analysis, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with marine winches, windlasses, or similar heavy-duty hydraulic equipment would be highly desirable.
- Ability to interpret classification society rules and relevant industry standards.
- Experience producing hydraulic schematics and technical documentation.
- Practical, hands-on approach with a willingness to support build and test activity.
- Good problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ownership of outcomes.
- Confident communicator, able to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience with Creo and AutoCAD would be an advantage.
- Project management experience and a background in cross-functional teamwork would be beneficial.
To find out more please contact Max Sinclair (url removed) or hit apply
- Type:
- Permanent
- Start Date:
- 28/05/2026
- Contract Length:
- N/A
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- Job Reference:
- V-131176
- Job ID:
- 225172296
- Applications:
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