Position Description
Looking for a professional role at a place you can have influence every day? Discover this great opportunity in our Washington, D.C. location. Bring your expertise and collaborative skills to make an impact towards our military defense and safety of our sailors by discovering your new role supporting this critical mission. The Ship Systems Engineer will be a part of System Engineering support services for PMS 501.
In this role, you will:
- Provide the LCS program with expertise and experience in researching, planning, budgeting, maintaining, conducting, and executing technical support for LCS Ships. Assist in developing presentations, point papers, and talk points. Assist in managing the Technical Director and Deputy’s Director’s schedules, manage departmental calendar, and arrange all meetings. Provide additional technical support to over increased workload. Draft, document, and archive meeting minutes. Provide Total Ship Systems Engineering.
- Provide systems engineering support for the LCS Technical Director throughout each hull Shipbuilding and Conversion (SCN) period to include the introduction, development, and fielding of the LCS in the areas of Ship Design/Hull, Mechanical and Electrical, Aviation Integration and Mission Package Integration. Provide assistance in the Government’s monitoring and analyzing of the development of Flight 0 ship design with industry and assist in performing technical evaluations, by providing advice to the Government on risk areas, required changes, certification impacts, lifecycle impacts, or other systems engineering challenges.
- Support the conduct of technical reviews, analyses, and evaluations of industry designs in all areas. Participate in the Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), working groups, industry design meetings and production reviews. Support the technical design approval and production introduction of each LCS SeaFrame’s technical baseline. Support the LCS Justification for Technical Determination (JTD)/Request for Deviation (RFD) review and approval process; advise the Technical Director n each proposed technical baseline modification.
- Provide technical assessment of overall HN&E system risks and assist in development of risk mitigation plans perform risk analysis of proposed designed baseline modifications. Provide a technical evaluation of each proposed change for the LCS Change Board. Identify documentation requiring revisions or updates as a result of a new or modified industry designs. Review each Ship’s design drawings, engineering change notices, ship specifications, Contract Data Requirements List (CDRLs), deliverables and verify equipment installations and drawings are in accordance with the contract requirements.
- Provide technical analyses and services for the LCS ship design, naval architecture, marine engineering, and integrated systems engineering for HM&E systems issues to include Aviation IPTs and certifications and Machinery Control Systems including evaluating and advising the Government of risk areas and opportunities for risk reduction. Support the Software Baseline Manager with baseline tracking and oversight for the Machinery Controls Systems (MPCMS, ECS) in an integration role between government activities and industry partners. Efforts may include secretariat support of the PMS 501 Software Configuration Control Boards (SCCBs), updates to the PMS 501 Software Instruction and charters, installation and Checkout Authorization Letter routing and Engineering Change Request (ECR) preparation.
- Support the development of design solutions for production challenges as they emerge for Flight 0 baseline. Assist in developing/evaluating plans, procedures, and processes as they related to the ship design elements of LCS. Provide expertise and engineering support to all aspects of LCS systems engineering. Develop and provide to the Government draft response to industry queries. Provide support in the Government’s development of all required technical documentation for future milestones.
- Assist the Government’s coordination of all LCS Science and Technology (S&T) efforts. (i.e., Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and S&T efforts, annual S&T investments, S&T funding sources, ongoing Technology Transitions agreements/MOAs, new Technology Transition agreements, LCS Technology Development efforts on achieving Technology Readiness Level (TRL)).
- Provide support to all aspects of LCS systems engineering and design to include drawing review and approval, design change development, technical insertion studies, and class design management efforts. This includes the ability to use AutoCAD and ShipConstructor computer programs. Provide direct support to the Technical Director in managing the Environmental Safety and Occupational Health (ESOH) program. Provide technical review and recommendation on all ESOH – related CDRLs, trial cards and other products. Review all proposed changes for ESOH impacts and provide assessment to Technical Director. Ensure program remains complaint with all statutory and regulatory ESOH guidance’s.
Qualifications
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- A Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline.
- Two to four years’ experience.
- A current or active DoD Secret clearance.
- CDRL tracking and AutoCAD experience.
- The ability to travel at least 10% of the time.
If you are ready to take the next step of your career path, apply today!
Company Overview
Serco Inc. (Serco) is the Americas division of Serco Group, plc. In North America, Serco’s 9,000 employees strive to make an impact every day across 100 sites in the areas of Defense, Citizen Services, and Transportation. We help our clients deliver vital services more efficiently while increasing the satisfaction of their end customers. Serco serves every branch of the U.S. military, numerous U.S. Federal civilian agencies, the Intelligence Community, the Canadian government, state, provincial and local governments, and commercial clients. While your place may look a little different depending on your role, we know you will find yours here. Wherever you work and whatever you do, we invite you to discover your place in our world. Serco is a place you can count on and where you can make an impact because every contribution matters.
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