Port Engineer

Port Engineer Opportunity

T-Solutions is a woman-owned, veteran-owned business based in Chesapeake, Virginia. We specialize in creating exceptional, responsive solutions to complex challenges for our global clients in government contracting. As an innovative and agile provider, we offer specialized technical solutions and a unique set of capabilities that support mission-critical operations and decision-making. Our expertise spans defense, security, maintenance engineering, logistics, and business transformation, ensuring our customers' success in today's dynamic environment.

We align our core competencies with our customers' current and future needs, continually adapting emerging and proven technologies to enhance their capabilities.

We are looking for dedicated candidates to fill the role of Port Engineer. As T-Solutions' onboard representative, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the operational readiness of our ships. Your primary responsibility will be to routinely validate shipboard conditions through personal observation and evaluation.

As a Port Engineer, you will lead a maintenance team and act as the primary representative for the Type Commander (TYCOM) and the Commanding Officer in all off-ship maintenance and modernization efforts. Your in-depth knowledge of the operational and maintenance needs of your assigned ship(s) will be essential in maintaining mission readiness.

Essential duties and responsibilities include managing an online database for all jobs, validating work requests, assigning preliminary estimates and plans prioritized work packages within budget and time constraints for TYCOM approval, reviewing work specifications, coordinating schedules with repair activities, overseeing repairs, and providing input for all maintenance funding decisions. You will also meet daily with the ships' crew, department heads, and commanding officers, review implementation, challenges, opportunities, and resources relating to the Consolidated Ship's Maintenance Plan, and recommend suggestions and edits to the Ship's Force if the current content does not provide accurate or complete information to determine the location.

Additionally, you will provide risk assessment and prioritization to the vessel's commanding officer using the approved TYCOM format for all on- and off-ship maintenance requirements, attend weekly status meetings and provide requested information to support maintenance planning and correction maintenance recommendations, attend ship maintenance, repair, and assessment events to answer real-time questions surrounding logistics, maintenance scope, funding shortfalls, budgetary constraints, and mission impacts, develop agendas and present details on the Planning Board for Maintenance and deconflict planned and unplanned operational, schedule, and work integration issues, perform a weekly review and ship check, to include applicable personal observations and discussions of all assessments and planned requirements, review the entire maintenance process, provide an annual prioritized list for all off-ship maintenance requirements for developing the Maintenance and Modernization Business Plan, develop recommendations for authorized work packages within TYCOM's established funding controls, provide a business case analysis in the prescribed TYCOM format when recommending changes to the business plan, provide funding shift recommendations for efficient execution of availabilities, possess the necessary knowledge to adhere to contractual requirements for our government clients, and perform all duties and responsibilities in a timely and effective manner in accordance with established company policies to achieve the overall objectives of this position.

This position includes a low level of travel of 5-15% to Fleet Concentration Support areas. Frequent underway time for sea trials, testing, inspections, ship checks, and other events as needed. Attend ship deployments, including port-to-port transfers, sea trials, mid-deployment ship checks, sister ship visits, and mid-deployment voyage repairs.

Education, knowledge, experience, skills, and abilities required include U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Merchant Marine Third Assistant Engineer (unlimited) or higher with a minimum of two years sea time as a USCG licensed merchant marine engineer. License may be active or inactive at time of hire. Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or an equivalent marine engineering degree. Knowledge of and recent experience in commercial maritime, U.S. Navy (USN), USCG, Military Sealift Command (MSC), or National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship maintenance and repair.

Combined recent professional maritime experience greater than or equal to five years. Or USN or USCG Officer (03 or higher), Limited Duty Officer (LDO) or Chief Warrant Officer (CWO) with a minimum of two sea tours or combination of tours as Chief Engineer (CHENG), and/or Main Propulsion Assistant (MPA). CVN or LHA/LHD Auxiliaries…