Engineer Structural 2

Ingalls Shipbuilding•Newport News, VA

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The Submarine Engineering Advanced Capabilities team is looking for an Engineer Structural 2 to take part in the development of future submarines. This is an opportunity to join our growing team to contribute and influence the Navy's or our allies future, premier attack submarine. The selected engineer will go oversee several projects, as well as provide guidance and direction to the junior engineering staff. In addition, presentations to NNS senior leadership, Navy, government technical warrant holders and SME’s. Analyze, research, and develop structurally engineered products, typically involving metallic materials, for new ship construction or ship alterations for commissioned vessels. Specific structural applications may contain composite materials. Techniques include classical, closed-form solutions and finite element methods to solve static, dynamic, transient and shock loading scenarios. Additional analyses consist of damage tolerance, fatigue and thermal analysis. Resulting analytical requirements include allowed stress levels, structural displacement, structural stability, and factors of safety. Interfacing with other engineering disciplines is required to ensure whole-ship system integration as well as ensuring products meet survivability requirements. Common tools used are Femap/NASTRAN, Abaqus CAE, Microsoft Office suite, AutoCAD, Inventor, and Siemens PLM suite. The Role Analyzes, researches and develops structural engineering specifications involving metals, non-metallic or composite structural materials for product design, or operation of product to include structures, mechanical, hydraulic, electrical and electronics, power plant, armament, heating and ventilating, equipment and maintenance designs. Analyzes damage tolerance, durability, design allowables and structural modeling. Specific structural engineering specialties may include dynamics and loads, stability and stress fatigue and thermal analysis. Tools utilized may include CATIA, IDEAS, ProEngineer and a variety of software applications.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree and 2 years of relevant exempt experience; Master’s Degree and 0 year of relevant professional experience
Newport News Shipbuilding requires a Bachelor's Degree in engineering from an ABET accredited program.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of submarine requirements in engineering and design of deck structures, foundations, and platform arrangements.
The ability to apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts, in the field of structural design and analysis is expected with limited supervision.
Experience in working in a collaborative environment integrating the many ship systems at the structural interfaces, with teams of engineers and designers of varying disciplines, is desired.
Strong communication and technical writing skills.
A good knowledge and utilization of the following software/applications is a plus: FEMAP, Abaqus, Teamcenter, Hypermesh, and MatLab.
Ability to learn operate older government provided software, i.e. FORTRAN.
The ability to acquire a SECRET clearance.

Responsibilities

Oversee several projects
Provide guidance and direction to the junior engineering staff
Presentations to NNS senior leadership, Navy, government technical warrant holders and SME’s
Analyze, research, and develop structurally engineered products, typically involving metallic materials, for new ship construction or ship alterations for commissioned vessels.
Interfacing with other engineering disciplines is required to ensure whole-ship system integration as well as ensuring products meet survivability requirements.