Sr. / Principal Platform Engineer
Operating under the BIW Business Operating System (BOS), the Platform Engineer ensures compliance with safety, quality, and performance standards while coordinating with other key stakeholders to meet overall milestones.
Key Responsibilities
- Take personal responsibility for your own safety through hazard identification and mitigation.
- Ensure practices/processes are safely executed.
- Communicate safety concerns and model safe behaviors.
Project Execution
- Provide on-site representation for the DDG 51 Class PY Engineering team in Norfolk, VA.
- Interface with the Navy, Navy Contractors, BIW Design, and BIW management.
- Support Design in the resolution of waterfront Engineering issues that may arise during installation of Ship Alterations.
- Develop and process Ship Alteration Technical Data in accordance with schedule constraints and governing requirements.
Quality Management
- Provide technical support to Design for Ship Installation Drawing (SID) package development for Ship Alterations and Post Shakedown Availability (PSA) Work Items tasked to Planning Yard.
- Accompany and assist shipcheck teams to ensure TDR guidance is followed and requirements are fulfilled.
Team Collaboration and Communication
- Interface with NAVSEA, ISEAs, and other contractors as required in seeking engineering solutions.
- Participate in off-site meetings and other events as needed.
- Participate in special projects and lead technical meetings as assigned.
Occasional travel is required.
This is a year round position that reports to the HM&E Engineering Team Lead in Maine.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering discipline
- Familiarity with DDG 51 class construction and documentation required.
- Experience in a marine repair environment preferred.
- Project Management experience preferred.
- Must have the flexibility to work in a fast-paced environment under the pressure of changing and often conflicting priorities.
- Ability to multi-task and manage simultaneous projects required.
- Strong research skills and attention to detail required.
- Self-motivation, strong work ethic, and the ability to work independently required.
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment with varying personalities required.
- Competence in MS Office products and general PC skills required.
- Strong oral and written communication skills required.
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).
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