Engineering Lead, Planning Yard, HM&E Team
$121,500–$153,900 year
On-siteBrunswick, Maine, United States
Job Summary
Lead the HM&E team in developing Ship Changes and Ship Installation Drawing packages for DDG 51 system upgrades while ensuring safety compliance and quality standards. Manage technical duties and supervise engineers, technicians, and associate engineers to execute Planning Yard contract tasking for in-service US Navy Destroyers. Coordinate with Navy customers, vendors, and internal program offices to engineer, integrate new changes, and drive continuous improvement initiatives that reduce cycle times and costs. Provide leadership, mentor new hires, and handle administrative functions including performance evaluations and labor contract administration. Moderate to high overtime is expected. Requires a BS in Engineering, 8+ years of technical experience, and 3+ years of supervisory experience.
Required Qualifications
- BS degree in Engineering
- Minimum 8 years of technical engineering experience
- breadth of shipbuilding and marine engineering experience
- 3 years of technical supervisory / project lead experience
- demonstrated technical / project management skills
- Ability to lead, motivate, and inspire teams of engineers, technicians, and AEs
- Understands the elements of ship design
- Excellent organizational and communications skills, both oral and written
- Positive relationship and reputation with U.S. Navy customer
- Broad knowledge of regulatory requirements (e.g. MILSPECs, Ship Specs., GSO)
- Demonstrated management, project coordination, and leadership skills
- Strong written, oral communications, and organizational skills
- Proficiency with computers, including Microsoft Office products
- Ability and willingness to work in, and promote, a true team environment
- Successful experience in implementing and monitoring continuous improvement initiatives to improve safety, improve quality, reduce cycle time, and reduce costs
- be able to obtain a government security clearance
- be a US Citizen
- be able to obtain an interim security clearance within the first 45 days of hire
Desired Qualifications
- Working knowledge of principles of USN post-delivery modernization processes
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