Combat Systems Port Engineer

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T-Solutions is a woman-owned, veteran-owned business based in Chesapeake, Virginia. We specialize in creating exceptional, responsive solutions to complex challenges for our global clients in government contracting. As an innovative and agile provider, we offer specialized technical solutions and a unique set of capabilities that support mission-critical operations and decision-making. Our expertise spans defense, security, maintenance engineering, logistics, and business transformation, ensuring our customers' success in today's dynamic environment. We align our core competencies with our customers' current and future needs, continually adapting emerging and proven technologies to enhance their capabilities.

Career Opportunity We are looking for dedicated candidates to fill the role of Combat Systems Port Engineer (CSPE). As T‑Solutions' onboard representative, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the operational readiness of our ships. Your primary responsibility will be to routinely validate shipboard conditions through personal observation and evaluation.

As a CSPE, you will lead a maintenance team and act as the primary representative for the Type Commander (TYCOM) and the Commanding Officer in all off-ship maintenance and modernization efforts. Your in-depth knowledge of the operational and maintenance needs of your assigned ship(s) will be essential in maintaining mission readiness.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Interface with the ships’ crew, department heads and commanding officer in-person on a daily basis to discuss shortfalls, implementation and insufficiencies related to the Consolidated Ships Maintenance Plan (CSMP) and validate new work items.

Verify and check all validated off-ship maintenance 2 kilos. 2 kilo validation includes equipment testing and system performance and making recommendations and repair actions to the maintenance plan.

Recommend timing of repairs and identify the most cost-effective level of maintenance.

Provide a risk assessment and prioritization of all on and off-ship maintenance requirements.

Attend all ship maintenance/repair assessment events and answer questions real time, these may include funding shortfalls, maintenance scope, mission impacts, and logistics.

Identify weaknesses in the maintenance plan/s, to include modernization recommendations.

Determine, validate, and diagnose specific maintenance requirements for assigned ships or craft.

Recommend ship owner authorization or deferral of identified maintenance requirements.

Screen authorized work to appropriate industrial activities and Continuous Maintenance availability periods.

Integrate authorized work items for each industrial availability to ensure development of an optimized work package.

Monitor industrial availability execution and support Government efforts to control quality, schedule, and cost.

Provide engineering and technical recommendations concerning the design, installation, logistic support, and priority of planned modernization.

Recommend solutions to maintenance-related environmental, logistics, technical and engineering problems encountered in ship repair and modernization.

Travel This position includes a low level of travel of 5-15% to Fleet Concentration Support areas.

Frequent underway time for sea trials, testing, inspections, ship checks, and other events as needed.

Attend ship deployments, including port-to-port transfers, sea trials, mid-deployment ship checks, sister ship visits, and mid-deployment voyage repairs.

Education, Knowledge, Experience, Skills, and Abilities Required Experience and knowledge with USN surface ship combat systems and communications systems.

Shipboard experience with C4I and C5I systems operation and maintenance.

Knowledge and experience with depot level combat systems and communications (C4I, C5I) repairs, maintenance, alteration/modernization and testing and integration of systems.

Significant knowledge and experience with one or more major US Navy surface ship combat or communications systems.

Five years’ experience in a leadership role as either a Chief Petty Officer (E7 or higher), Limited Duty Officer (LDO), or Chief Warrant Officer (CWO) level or higher rank in the combat systems and C4I/C5I operating and maintenance community.