Sr. / Principal Engineer, Life Cycle Engineering

Job Description

This Engineer will work within the BIW Engineering Department’s Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) organization as a member of the Reliability, Maintainability & Availability (RMA) team. This Engineer will leverage their specialty reliability and maintainability (R&M) skills to effectively implement R&M requirements onboard U.S. Navy Ships for Hull, Mechanical & Electrical (HM&E) systems.  

Typical skills and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Provide Failure Reporting Analysis & Corrective Action (FRACAS) expertise to the Zumwalt Class Ship Program, including during fleet deployment and build-yard maintenance periods (BYMP). Perform engineering tasks to effectively document HM&E equipment failures, participate in Failure Review Boards (FRBs) and generate reliability metrics, including reliability growth calculations.
• Determine root cause of equipment failures and document solutions (long term corrective action) to prevent failure recurrence.
• Participate in integrated product teams involving buyers, subcontractors, vendors, engineers, logistic reps, Navy customers, etc. for current and future BIW shipbuilding programs, including DDG(X).
• Model ship system designs, conduct analyses/calculations and perform research to determine equipment R&M performance parameters (MTBF, MTBF, MTTR, Rm, Ao, etc.) Apply reliability techniques and software to perform sensitivity studies, supportability calculations, and optimal sparing.
• Interpret engineering designs, drawings, change proposals, plus Ship and Purchase Specifications.
• Gather equipment specification data as well as industry/fleet failure data. Organize and interpret data for R&M evaluations and technical assessments.
• Interface with vendors to achieve R&M requirements identified in HM&E equipment Purchase Specifications and/or Ship Design-Build Specifications.
• Support development of Maintenance Demonstration (M-Demo) Plans. Participate in the subsequent execution of M-Demo events. Produce M-Demo reports for government review and approval.
• Review vendor-initiated Failure Modes, Effects & Criticality Analyses (FMECA) of shipboard systems. Submit FMECA Reports to government for review and facilitate Navy CDRL approval.
• Review vendor-initiated Reliability and Maintainability Allocations, Assessments and Analyses (RMAAA) for shipboard equipment. Submit RMAAA Reports to government for review and facilitate Navy CDRL approval.
• Interface with Navy customer, Manufacturing Trades, Procurement, Quality Assurance, Fleet Service Engineering, and/or Design to resolve technical issues, failure investigations and root cause analyses.
• Update internal R&M procedures and work instructions to facilitate repeatability and promote continuous process improvement. 

Required/Preferred Education/Training

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering required.
• Reliability Engineering education and/or training highly preferred.
• Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) training and CRE certification very highly preferred.

Required/Preferred Experience

Sr. Engineer - 5 years' experience required

Principal Engineer - 12 years' experience required

• Strong knowledge of Mechanical and/or Electrical Engineering principles required.
• Knowledge of naval ship systems highly preferred.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills required.
• Strong research skills and attention to detail required, data analysis skills highly preferred.
• Positive attitude toward teaming environment; cohesive team membership required.
• Ability to plan, organize, and execute projects independently, and as a team member, is required.
• Familiarly with reliability theory and/or reliability modeling software highly preferred.
• Salary range commensurate with experience.

• 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)