Description
Job 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 part of the naval architecture department, you will tackle new and evolving ship design and integration engineering challenges by applying naval architecture principles, techniques, calculations, procedures, and criteria. The projects executed within the team cover the full range of ship design phases from conceptual design through detail design, and post-delivery support. Your contributions will directly support the continued maturation of ship design solutions across all phases of design.
Remote with occasional office visits. Candidate will need to be local to the Washington DC Naval Yard in order to attend office meetings.
Primary Responsibilities
- Hydrostatics (weight estimates, intact/ damage stability assessments)
- Hydrodynamics (hull design, resistance predictions, seakeeping assessments)
- Arrangements (general arrangements, compartment outfitting, aviation integration, topside integration)
- Overall ship design integration
- Requirement’s development
- Executing naval architecture analyses.
- Working with multi discipline teams to lead overall ship development and design integration.
- Leading and successfully executing trade studies and requirements development
- Preparing and presenting technical reports and engineering documentation.
- Proactively interfacing with customers and other stakeholders to discuss design progress.
Basic Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship and ability to acquire Secret Security Clearance. Active Secret clearance preferred
- BS or Advanced Degree in Naval Architecture or Marine Engineering
- 4+ years of professional engineering experience
- Experience leading/guiding multidisciplinary technical teams preferred.
- Proficiency in Naval Architecture software tools such as: RHINO, GHS, SHCP, NavCAD, AutoCAD, MS-Office
- Excellent communication skills (oral and written, both formal and informal)
- Strong time management and organizational skills as an independent contributor
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills as a member of a collaborative multidisciplinary team
Preferred Qualifications
- PE license in Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering preferred
- Experience with Amphibious Ship design and construction preferred
Pay Range: Pay Range $78,000.00 – $141,000.00
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.
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