Sr​/Principal Mechanical Engineer, Machinery Section

Job Description

Operating under the BIW Business Oeprating System (BOS) the Machinery Section Engineer ensures compliance with safety, quality, and performance standards while coordinating with other key stakeholders to meet overall milestones.

Key Responsibilities

Safety Leadership:

• Be a safety leader for your team and ensure that each person leaves in the condition they came in. Ensure all safety trainings are completed on time.

Project Execution:

• Provide technical, engineering, design and project leadership for main propulsion machinery shipboard equipment and systems (gas turbine engines, propellers, reduction gears, steering gears, shafting, seals and generator sets etc.), associated piping systems & HVAC systems.
• Create CAE models that simulate ship system designs, and perform analysis and calculations using CAE applications.
• Develop and maintain equipment technical purchase specifications, diagrams and calculations.
• Develop, document and present technical position on requirements compliance issues related to design and construction within assigned area of cognizance.
• Develop and define ship system engineering requirements and relate them to top level performance requirements.

Team Collaboration and Communication:

• Interface with customers (Navy, Manufacturing, Detail Design, Procurement, QA, etc) to resolve technical issues, recommend changes and maintain technical documentation.
• Support ship construction activities, including ship testing, system activation and sea trials.
• Participate on or lead integrated product and process teams.

• BS in Mechanical Engineering or Marine Engineering from an ABET accredited university or college.
• MS degree and/or PE license preferred.

• Minimum 8 years (Senior Engineer) / 12 years (Principal Engineer) experience in main propulsion machinery and auxiliary systems required. Shipboard applications preferred.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Adept at giving technical presentations at group meetings.
• Demonstrated experience to lead technical projects.
• Windows and CAE (i.e. Pro/E, Pro/M, FEA, CFD software) experience highly desirable.
• Project management and coordination skills: ability to plan, organize and execute projects; ability to handle multiple projects and assignments concurrently.
• Must be willing to support occasional company travel.
• Must possess, or have the ability to obtain, a Secret level security clearance.
  • This position requires you to be able to obtain a government security clearance. You must be a US Citizen for consideration and you must be able to obtain an interim security clearance within the first 45 days of hire. For more information regarding the security clearance process, please visit Investigations & Clearance Process (dcsa.mil)