Junior Survivability Engineer

Description

Gibbs & Cox, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos, is the largest independent naval architecture and marine engineering firm in the United States. Since our founding in 1929, 24 classes of combatants and nearly 7,000 vessels have been built to Gibbs & Cox designs. We proudly support military and commercial clients in the U.S. and internationally with all phases of marine design, construction, and lifecycle management. Our passion is solving our customers’ 21st century maritime challenges with quality and integrity.

As a member of an interdisciplinary team that focuses on total ship survivability specialty engineering services, the Ship Survivability Engineer will be responsible for engineering activities related to vulnerability for surface ships.  This will include, but is not limited to, the review of technical drawings, the analysis of design fitness, the implementation of alternative solutions, as well as the development of corresponding deliverables. This role will report to the Department Manager, Survivability.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, mature, and evaluate survivability capabilities and specification requirements

• Build individual system, combinatorial, and mission level fault tree logic

• Develop and implement modeling and simulation and live fire test plans and procedures

• Perform technical analyses using U.S. Navy specifications, manuals, and standards

• Assess HM&E systems for survivable features, advise on suitability for meeting requirements, and participate in relevant working groups

• Identify design deficiencies, areas of design risk, and develop recommendations for solutions for vulnerability reduction

• Perform damage-based Modelling and Simulation (M&S) and associated data analysis for design improvement recommendations

• Assess trade-offs between systems arrangements and requirements, including characteristics of combat system options

• Develop design deliverables and present results to customer

Required Qualifications:

• Degree in Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or other relevant engineering discipline

• 2 years of professional experience in the maritime field

• Working knowledge of naval architecture, marine systems, platform, and/or topside design principles

• Ability to read, understand, and interpret basic engineering drawings, 3D models, and specifications

• Ability to rapidly assimilate and integrate information and develop viable concepts for solutions

• Ability to perform engineering calculations and tests for validating ship and system performance

• Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills

• Ability to work independently and with remote team members and/or customers

• Positive, solutions-orientated attitude

• U.S. Citizenship

• Currently hold or be able to obtain a secret security clearance

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in naval system design and integration

• Knowledge of naval surface ship vulnerability reduction characteristics such as separation, redundancy, enclaving, armoring

• Experience performing vulnerability assessments against weapons effects and progressive damage such as blast, ballistic penetration, root cause and single point of failure, crew egress and emergency evacuation, flooding and damage stability, fire and smoke spread, collision and grounding

• Ability to influence thinking and advocate for the team’s interests across multiple program stakeholders with divergent interests

• Knowledge of set based design and general systems engineering principles

• Experience with naval production methods

• Experience with naval ship acquisition programs and working directly with government and navy customers

• Ability to engage with senior stakeholders and decision authorities and explain complex positions and issues

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Salary : $63,050 - $113,975