The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch has announced a vacancy for an Inspector of Marine Accidents (Naval Architect), the department published on 24 September 2026.
The notice, posted on the government’s website, states that the branch is seeking an Inspector of Marine Accidents with a naval architecture background to join its Southampton-based office.
The announcement is concise in scope: it identifies the post and a location but does not provide further detail in the published summary. The entry on the gov.uk site is dated 24 September 2026.
The vacancy item sets out the existence of the post and the requirement that the successful candidate will be based at the branch’s Southampton office. Beyond that statement, the published summary offers no additional particulars in its brief form.
Prospective candidates are invited to note the published notice on the Marine Accident Investigation Branch page of the government website. The item is presented as an open recruitment announcement seeking a naval architect to serve as an inspector within the branch’s established investigative team.
Role identification
The title given in the publication is Inspector of Marine Accidents (Naval Architect). That title, as published, links the inspector role directly with naval architecture expertise and situates the post within the MAIB’s staffing structure as described in the notice.
The brief public summary makes clear only the post title and the intended base of operations; it does not expand on duties, reporting lines or the particulars of the appointment in the short announcement that appears on the government site.
Location
The published notice identifies Southampton as the office to which the appointment will be attached. The summary does not elaborate on the branch’s other locations or the precise premises in Southampton.
Readers looking for further detail will find the entry on the MAIB’s page of the government website, where the department placed the vacancy notice on 24 September 2026.
The announcement represents a formal recruitment step recorded in the public record. The simple, factual notice establishes the existence of the vacancy and its base without further elaboration in the short-form summary that was published.
Those seeking more information will need to consult the full notice on the government website, where the department’s publication was posted on the date shown. The summary supplied in the published item is limited to naming the post and its Southampton location.
In its present form the item functions as a headline notice of recruitment by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch. It confirms the branch’s search for an Inspector of Marine Accidents with naval architecture experience and identifies Southampton as the base for the appointment, with the entry dated 24 September 2026 on the government website.