Engineering Leads in BIW’s Lifecycle Engineering Department perform Engineering duties and provide leadership and supervision to teams of Engineers, Technicians, and BMDA Associate Engineers to accomplish BIW Planning Yard (PY) contract tasking and support in-service US Navy Destroyers. 

The PY Engineering Services Lead will be charged with oversight of PY Test activities, shipboard system grooms, weight report generation, supervision of two teams, and working with our Navy customers to understand their needs and fleet priorities.

The Engineering Services Lead is a leadership role accountable to PY Engineering Management.  This position demands a proactive leader who can communicate extremely effectively and manage our unique projects and traveling teams.  This position will interface regularly with BIW Program Management and Navy customers. The Engineering Lead will ensure compliance with safety, quality, technical and performance standards and have goals to further develop and expand PY’s Engineering Services lines of work.

Key Responsibilities

• Safety Leadership:
  • Be a safety leader for your team and ensure that each person leaves in the condition they came in.
  • Ensure all safety training is completed on time.

• Project Execution:
  • Responsible for engineering products and shipboard groom-team performance.

• Engineering Management:
  • Lead efforts, including test procedure development, shipboard grooms and testing.
  • Set appropriate team expectations for completion of goals.
  • Ensure accountability of task and goal completion.
  • Manage processes to ensure that quality, schedule and cost performance goals are achieved on all programs.
  • Perform supervisory and administrative duties including resource management, employee development, safety, performance evaluations, statusing, progressing work, assist with hiring, honoring labor contracts, employee time verification, and BMDA contract administration.

• Training and Development:
  • Provide technical training, guidance and leadership to assigned personnel.
  • Establish and maintain effective work procedures and instructions for engineering processes.
  • Provide onboarding and mentor plans for new engineers entering the team.

• Team Collaboration and Communication:
  • Ensure proper communication is maintained among the team and with other groups both internal and external.
  • Interface with and support Engineering, Program Office, Design, Estimating, Contracts, Materials, Planning, Manufacturing, Navy and other customer organizations as required.

• Continuous Improvement:
  • Ensure proper up to date process documentation for all team processes.
  • Utilize BIW BOS principles to review performance and remove waste from processes.

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering is required.
• Working knowledge of principles for USN test programs and post-delivery modernization processes is preferred.

• Minimum 8 years of technical engineering experience required; breadth of shipbuilding and marine engineering experience is relevant.
• 3 years of technical supervisory / project lead experience required, including demonstrated technical / project management skills.
• Ability to lead, motivate, and inspire teams of engineers, technicians, and AEs.
• Understands the elements of ship design.
• Excellent organizational and communications skills, both oral and written.
• Positive relationship and reputation with U.S. Navy customer.
• Broad knowledge of regulatory requirements (e.g. Naval Ship Specs., GSO)
• Demonstrated management, project coordination and leadership skills required. Strong written, oral communications and organizational skills required.
• Proficiency with computers including Microsoft Office products required.
• Ability and willingness to work in and promote a true team environment.
• Successful experience in implementing and monitoring continuous improvement initiatives to improve safety, improve quality, reduce cycle time, and reduce costs.
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