Interdisciplinary Engineer

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Job Description

You will be responsible for the resolution of technical issues, with specific emphasis on issues pertaining to Structural, Stability, Weights, Materials, Arrangements, Deck Machinery, Corrosion, and/or Coatings, including systems and equipment.

You will interpret and ensure compliance with technical requirements, standards and policies.

You will use best judgement, make technical recommendations with guidelines that are often inadequate or conflicting.

You will provide engineering insight while working on issues and systems which require interfacing with multiple other engineers or personnel.

You will evaluate technical non-conformance to the specifications.

You will review shipboard system diagrams, vendor drawings, calculations, test procedures/reports, technical manuals, and purchase technical documents to ensure specification requirements are met.

You will be familiar with advances in engineering pertaining to shipbuilding.

You will function as a contract leader of technical areas of responsibility.

You will develop production resolution plans and coordinate actions required to resolve them with minimum production disruption.

You will conduct technical meetings, prepare presentations, and provide technical briefings to Project Offices, Ship Design Managers, and other Senior Technical Leaders.

You will prepare correspondence concerning the design, testing, operation, modification and approval of ship systems and components.

You will conduct, arrange, and attend conferences on design problems concerning systems.

You will review contractor designs to ensure conformance to the specification or where no specification exists, to good Engineering practices, theory, principles, and concepts.

You will resolve controversial problems including construction deficiencies submitted by the ship's force.

You will provide engineering and technical analysis of contract change proposals, where there are conflicts, errors, ambiguities and omissions or where there is no specification coverage.

You will act as the engineering representative on technical problems associated with new ship design, production and system testing.

You will recommend changes to design procurement specifications.