Design Lead (Engineer Logistics 3) - 30770

HII•Virginia Beach, VA

About The Position

HII Mission Technologies is seeking a Design Agent Lead to manage front-end design development and document control workflows supporting Navy training system installations and alterations. This full-time role is based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and calls for a detail-oriented professional able to independently coordinate across functions, oversee technical documentation, and ensure quality, accuracy, and timely delivery. The Design Agent Lead manages design work from requirements intake through planning, development, review, quality assurance, submission, tracking, and closeout. The role develops and coordinates design documents, maintains configuration control and traceability, manages workflow status and deadlines, prepares submissions, and supports design and readiness reviews. It also provides day-to-day leadership, workload coordination, technical guidance, and mentoring to Design Agents and support personnel. Work may take place in office, remote, industrial, shipyard, or shipboard environments. The role requires an active Secret clearance and may involve ladders, confined spaces, temperature variations, carrying a laptop or technical materials, and lifting within one-person lift guidelines.

Requirements

Five years of relevant experience with a bachelor’s degree in a related field; three years with a master’s degree in a related field; no experience with a Ph.D. or Juris Doctorate in a related field; or a high school diploma or equivalent and nine years of relevant experience.
Experience developing or managing technical drawings and design documentation for installation, alteration, shipboard, industrial, or DoD work.
Working knowledge of SIDs, ICDs, drawing development practices, configuration management, and formal review and approval workflows.
Knowledge of applicable Navy and NAVSEA standards, technical requirements, and procedures.
Experience with digital design tools including AutoCAD, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Office, and Adobe Acrobat or Bluebeam.
Ability to interpret technical requirements, drawings, specifications, field conditions, and stakeholder inputs and translate them into complete and accurate design documentation.
Ownership, organization, problem-solving ability, communication skills, and follow-through.
Ability to work independently in a remote or digital environment while maintaining responsiveness and accountability.
Active Secret clearance.
Ability to climb ladders, access confined spaces, tolerate temperature variations, carry a laptop or technical materials, and lift items within one-person lift guidelines.

Nice To Haves

Leadership or workflow owner experience in a technical design environment.
Experience with Navy training systems, ship alterations, Planning Yard processes, ship checks, or installation design packages.
Experience with record selected drawings, drawing baselines, and formal Navy submission processes.
Familiarity with major shipyard standards such as Ingalls Shipbuilding.
Demonstrated ability to improve technical or administrative workflows.
Active Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

Lead and manage the Design Agent workflow from requirements intake through planning, development, technical and QA reviews, submission, tracking, and closeout.
Develop, revise, and coordinate SIDs, ICDs, drawings, layouts, sketches, redlines, and related documentation for Navy installations and alterations.
Validate project scope, design inputs, technical data, milestones, ownership, and approvals, and resolve missing or conflicting information.
Coordinate with engineering, QA, program management, production, Planning Yard representatives, customers, and document control.
Maintain configuration control, revision history, document accuracy, and traceability in the approved system of record.
Manage trackers, engineering logs, action items, risks, workflow metrics, and project due dates; provide timely status updates to leadership.
Prepare or coordinate submissions, including LARs, DMS requests, eForms uploads, technical data packages, minutes, and reports.
Participate in design reviews, ship checks, site surveys, planning meetings, and readiness reviews; document decisions and follow-up actions.
Ensure compliance with Navy, NAVSEA, shipyard, Planning Yard, and program procedures.
Identify workflow bottlenecks and recurring challenges and implement process improvements that strengthen accountability, cycle time, and quality.
Provide daily leadership, technical guidance, workload coordination, and mentoring to Design Agents and support personnel.
Work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced digital environment supporting distributed teams.