Combat Systems Port Engineer

T-Solutions Recruiting Team•Norfolk, VA

About The Position

T-Solutions is seeking a Combat Systems Port Engineer (CSPE) to serve as its onboard representative and help ensure the operational readiness of assigned ships. The CSPE routinely validates shipboard conditions through personal observation and evaluation, leads a maintenance team, and represents the Type Commander (TYCOM) and Commanding Officer in off-ship maintenance and modernization efforts. The role requires in-depth knowledge of assigned ships’ operational and maintenance needs to support mission readiness. The CSPE works with ship crews and leadership to validate maintenance requirements, assess and prioritize risks, recommend repair timing and maintenance levels, and support planning and execution of industrial availabilities. The role also provides engineering and technical recommendations for modernization, repair, logistics, and related issues. Travel is listed at 5–15% to Fleet Concentration Support areas, with frequent underway time and participation in deployments, sea trials, inspections, ship checks, and other shipboard events as needed.

Requirements

Experience and knowledge with U.S. Navy surface ship combat systems and communications systems.
Shipboard experience operating and maintaining C4I and C5I systems.
Knowledge and experience with depot-level combat systems and communications (C4I, C5I) repairs, maintenance, alteration/modernization, testing, and systems integration.
Significant knowledge and experience with one or more major U.S. Navy surface ship combat or communications systems.
Five years of leadership experience as a Chief Petty Officer (E7 or higher), Limited Duty Officer (LDO), or Chief Warrant Officer (CWO) level or higher in the combat systems and C4I/C5I operating and maintenance community.
Active DoD Secret security clearance is highly desired; candidates eligible to obtain and maintain one will be considered. A candidate without an active clearance will receive a contingent offer, and a start date will be established after the Secret clearance is fully adjudicated.
Must be a U.S. citizen.
Must possess a valid driver’s license.
Must have reliable transportation to and from various work locations.
Must have a valid passport or the ability to obtain one.
Must be able to communicate with a supervisor or manager when not in the office, using personal equipment and services for business-related purposes.
Must be able to frequently traverse stairs, fixed ladders, and ladder wells while walking ships daily.
Must be able to spend several consecutive days at sea while underway as needed.
Must be capable of sitting for long periods, standing, walking, crouching, kneeling, reaching, handling and using equipment, keyboards, and mobile devices, and lifting boxes of files and supplies up to 20 pounds.

Responsibilities

Meet in person daily with ship crews, department heads, and the Commanding Officer to discuss Consolidated Ships Maintenance Plan (CSMP) shortfalls, implementation, and insufficiencies, and validate new work items.
Verify and check validated off-ship maintenance 2-kilo items, including equipment testing and system performance, and recommend maintenance-plan repairs and actions.
Recommend repair timing and identify the most cost-effective level of maintenance.
Assess risk and prioritize on-ship and off-ship maintenance requirements.
Attend ship maintenance and repair assessment events and address questions about funding shortfalls, maintenance scope, mission impacts, and logistics.
Identify weaknesses in maintenance plans and recommend modernization.
Determine, validate, and diagnose maintenance requirements for assigned ships or craft.
Recommend ship-owner authorization or deferral of identified maintenance requirements.
Screen authorized work for appropriate industrial activities and Continuous Maintenance availability periods.
Integrate authorized work items for each industrial availability to develop an optimized work package.
Monitor industrial availability execution and support government efforts to control quality, schedule, and cost.
Provide engineering and technical recommendations concerning the design, installation, logistic support, and priority of planned modernization.
Recommend solutions to maintenance-related environmental, logistics, technical, and engineering problems encountered in ship repair and modernization.
Travel to Fleet Concentration Support areas and participate in underway events, deployments, sea trials, inspections, ship checks, port-to-port transfers, mid-deployment ship checks, sister-ship visits, and voyage repairs as needed.