Engineer - Fleet Support and Systems Engineering

Overview

There’s never been a better time to join the shipbuilding industry. As demand for cutting-edge naval technology grows, General Dynamics Electric Boat is at the forefront—designing, building, and maintaining the most advanced submarines in the world. Our work is mission-critical, supporting the U.S. Navy and strengthening national security.

 

About Department 468 – Fleet Support and Systems Engineering

Department 468 – Fleet Support and Systems Engineering provides systems engineering support for in-service VIRGINIA, OHIO, and SEAWOLF Class submarines under the Planning Yard OMNIBUS contract. The mission of the Department is to drive innovation, deliver high-quality technical solutions, and support the organization’s strategic goals through engineering excellence. We accomplish this by managing engineering changes and documentation updates including SRDs, SHIPALTs, TEMPALTs, VIRs, LARs, RLARs, and MCRs, while ensuring ship configuration records remain accurate. We coordinate and issue responses across disciplines for Liaison Action Requests (LARs) and Departure for Specifications (DFSs), support NAVSEA-directed tasking and provide systems engineering support for interdisciplinary products and services within the directorate and engineering expertise for specialized systems such as Deep Submergence Systems (DSS), Escape and Rescue Systems, Dry Deck Shelters (DDS), and Advanced Seal Delivery Systems (ASDS). We provide on-site support and work directly alongside the Navy shipyards and bases at Norfolk, Portsmouth, Pearl Harbor, and Guam to keep our submarines safe, modernized and fully mission-ready through first time quality driven from efficiency and innovation.

 

Role Overview

Join the Fleet Support and Systems Engineering (D468) Systems Engineering team. Candidates will be responsible for various activities required to maintain and enhance the current submarine fleet, which consists of delivered ships in all classes (OHIO, SEAWOLF, and VIRGINIA).  Maintenance and enhancement activities include managing potential design changes to commissioned ships, developing documentation for class/ship modernization, and providing technical direction in support of emergent problems. As a Systems Engineer in D468's Fleet Systems Engineering team, you will provide systems engineering support* for interdisciplinary products and services within the directorate and as well ensuring that multiple disciplines involved with interdisciplinary tasking work effectively and meet invoked requirements.

* Systems Engineering is an interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems. It focuses on defining stakeholder needs and required functionality early in the development cycle, documenting requirements and interfaces, then proceeding with design synthesis and system validation. Systems Engineers have roles and functions embedded in all aspects of a project (design, build, and sustainment).

 

Key Responsibilities

 

This multi-discipline role (Structural/Mechanical/Fluids) involves:

• Managing and implementing design changes for commissioned submarines
• Providing engineering solutions in response to fleet issues and emergent problems

• Provide Systems Engineering support as the lead engineer for Ship Alterations (SHIPALTs), Temporary Alterations (TEMPALTs), and Manual Change Requests (MCRs).

• Conducting reviews of technical drawings, manual changes (MCRs), Selected Records Drawings (SRDs), and engineering updates
• Providing technical guidance via Liaison Action Requests (LARs), Reverse LARs (RLARs), and Vendor Information Requests (VIRs)
• Potential travel to shipyards to deliver on-site technical support

Qualifications

Required

 

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering 
• 3-5 years post graduate engineering experience
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance

 

Preferred

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical, Marine, Systems, Structural, Fluids, or Civil Engineering
• Experience in any of the following areas:  

• Special emphasis programs (DSS-SOC & SUBSAFE)
• Multiple Systems/components and their interaction
• System operations and systems engineering principles
• Selected Record Drawings (SRDs)
• Liaison Action Requests (LARs)
• Ship Alterations (ShipAlts)

Skills

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proactive in engaging technical experts when necessary
• Sound engineering judgement to make quick, informed decisions
• Ability to independently pursue information required to make technical decisions
• Quick learner a