Senior Mechanical Engineer

Requisition ID: 276025 

•  Relocation Authorized: None 
• Telework Type: Full-Time Telework 
• Work Location: Reston, VA 

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Project Overview

Bechtel and Blue Forge Alliance (Submarine Workforce Industrial Base (SWIB) procurement prime contractor) are partnering with the US Navy on a one-of-a-kind opportunity to streamline and optimize the submarine production process and develop a national strategic functional dry docks plan across the US. New submarine production is critical to the Navy and Nation and ship building plans call for greater production (by tonnage) than at any point since World War II. To meet this demand, the Navy is working with industry and the shipbuilders to support capital investments required to provide ship building and repairs facilities optimization, and industrial equipment to meet this surging demand. The U.S. Navy SWIB procurement will develop strategies to streamline facility builds or accelerate its investments in existing shipbuilding facilities, footprint, and machines/fixtures to achieve the 1 Columbia Class and 2 Virgina Class submarines per year production rate while also sustaining the existing fleet.

This project spans several supporting activities and sub-objectives, in close partnership and coordination with the prime Blueforge Alliance, NAVSEA 04, the 4 public Navy shipyards, General Dynamics Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding. The following list are activities and objectives that are the focus of this project:

• Develop a national strategic functional dry dock plan across public and private shipyards.
• Determine both a near term critical equipment modernization roadmap and a long-term equipment modernization lifecycle.
• Generate and implement strategies to accelerate current shipbuilding facility expansion.
• Implement shipbuilding facility layout changes to optimize production and decrease shipbuilding and maintenance timelines.
• Assist shipbuilders in determining methodologies for reducing inventory space requirements.

Position Summary

This position is for a Senior Mechanical Engineer. This position will be full-time telework and will require travel of 25-30% of the year, which entail site visits to the various shipyards across the United States and in-office visits to Reston, VA. The position is contingent upon project award.

Responsibilities

• Prepare industrial process/functional/system analysis to define facility/system/equipment design requirements.
• Establish means of verifying requirements implementation, including acceptance criteria.
• Prepare equipment, system and facility design criteria documents.
• Support system-level design verification, requirements verification, test requirements specification, and requirements flowdown and traceability.
• Perform impact analyses for proposed requirement changes.
• Perform assessments to validate and verify implementation and traceability of requirements into design.
• Participate in technical discussions to resolve system design issues.
• Research and document system operations and limits from the review of design and basis documents and from discussions with system designers.

Qualifications and Skills

Basic Qualifications

• Level 1 - Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or a related field (e.g. Industrial, Electrical, Chemical or Nuclear Engineering) from an accredited university or college with at least 6 years of relevant technical experience.
• Level 2 - Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or a related field (e.g. Industrial, Electrical, Chemical or Nuclear Engineering) from an accredited university or college with at least 9 years of relevant technical experience.
• US Citizenship required; no dual citizenship accepted.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain any security clearances required for this position.
• Must be able to complete a pre-employment drug screen and background check.

Minimum Qualifications

• Possess an understanding of Mechanical Engineering principles and methods.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Proficient in Excel, VBA, and/or Access database design.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of systems, calculations, equipment, applications of methods, materials, and computers used within the mechanical engineering discipline.
• Knowledge of industry /regulatory codes and standards, and design criteria pertinent to the mechanical engineering discipline.
• Familiarity with mechanical and/or systems engineering on DOE or DOD projects.
• Familiarity with implementation of requirements in design.
• Experience working with requirements management databases.
• Experience in performing design and/or requirements change impact analysis.

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