Combat Systems Port Engineer

T-Solutions, Inc.; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

T-Solutions, Inc. in Virginia is seeking a Combat Systems Port Engineer (CSPE) to serve as the onboard representative responsible for ensuring ships are operationally ready.

This role requires direct observation and evaluation of shipboard conditions to validate maintenance actions and readiness. You will lead a maintenance team and act as the primary liaison for TYCOM and the Commanding Officer in off-ship maintenance and modernization efforts, applying deep expertise in US Navy C4I/C5I systems

Qualifications

• Experience with US Navy surface ship combat and communications systems.
• Proficient in C4I and C5I operations and maintenance.
• Knowledge of depot level combat systems repairs and modernization.
• Demonstrated leadership in a naval combat systems environment.
• Five years in a leadership role within combat systems or C4I/C5I domains.

Responsibilities

• Interface with ship crews to discuss shortfalls and validate work items.
• Verify off-ship maintenance validation and test system performance.
• Recommend timing of repairs and determine cost-effective maintenance levels.
• Provide risk assessment and priority for all maintenance requirements.
• Attend maintenance assessment events and resolve questions about funding and scope.
• Identify weaknesses in maintenance plans and modernization needs.
• Determine, validate, and diagnose maintenance requirements for assigned ships.
• Screen work to appropriate activities and plan availability periods.
• Integrate work items to create optimized maintenance packages.
• Monitor execution and support government quality, schedule, and cost.

Skills

US Navy surface ship systems

C4I/C5I operations

Depot level combat systems

Leadership in combat systems

Communication & collaboration

Job description

Overview

T-Solutions: Your Preferred Partner for Global Services and Innovative Solutions

At T-Solutions, we pride ourselves on being the company of choice for those seeking top-tier global services and innovative solutions. Our team comprises highly qualified and uniquely skilled professionals dedicated to delivering services with integrity. We are committed to excellence, enriching our clients, employees, and communities.

Who We Are

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.

Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret security clearance is highly desired; however, candidates eligible to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance will be considered. The selected candidate will receive a contingent offer if they do not hold an active clearance. A start date will be established once a fully adjudicated Secret clearance is granted.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Must possess a valid Driver’s License.
• Must have reliable transportation to and from various work locations.
• Must have a valid passport or the ability to obtain a passport.
• Must maintain the capability to communicate with their supervisor or manager when not in the office. This includes using your equipment and services for business‑related purposes. The compensation for this position includes incidental costs for work‑related usage of your personal devices.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to traverse stairs, fixed ladders, and ladder wells frequently while walking ships daily.
• Wherewithal to spend several consecutive days at sea while underway as needed.
• Capable of sitting for long periods, standing, walking, crouching, and kneeling.
• Reaching, handling, using equipment, keyboards, and mobile devices.
• Lifting boxes (files and supplies) up to 20 lbs.

In compliance with Virgnia's Pay Transparency Act, the minimum salary for this position is $102,000 per year and a maximum salary of $120,000 per year. The minimum salary excludes applicable benefits, bonuses, or performance spot awards. T-Solutions, Inc. considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role and assosciated responisbilities, a candidate's work experience, education/training, and key skills.

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T-Solutions is proud to be a Veteran-Friendly Employer. It does not discriminate against qualified applicants because of their status as a protected veteran or their relationship or association with a protected veteran, including spouses and other family members.