Principal Electrical Engineer - Naval Power & Controls

General Dynamics - Bath Iron Works; Brunswick (ME); On-site; USD 88,000 - 142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

401(k)

HSAs

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Health coaching

Athletic trainers

Employee assistance program

Onsite health services

Job summary

General Dynamics – Bath Iron Works in Maine seeks Electrical Engineers to support development, specification, arrangement, installation, testing of shipboard electrical power, lighting, and controls systems. The successful candidate will perform systems engineering, modeling, and analyses, lead safety and project tasks, and interface with Navy and vendors to resolve technical issues.

A BS in electrical engineering or related field is required, MS/PE preferred, and a government clearance may be

Qualifications

• A Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, Computer Engineering, or equivalent degree is required.
• A Master's degree in Engineering or P.E. is preferred.
• Working knowledge of Power and Controls Engineering is required.

Responsibilities

• Develop ship power and controls systems through tasks and projects involving engineers across disciplines, subcontractors, or the customer.
• Perform reliability/risk assessments on designs, methodologies, or processes.
• Perform systems engineering, system integration, or project related tasks including requirements analyses, requirements decomposition, developing and evaluating operational requirements, developing software requirements, resolution of requirements conflicts, specification development, and management of budget and schedule.
• Perform modeling, simulation, and calculations to validate designs and ensure they meet project/customer requirements.
• Develop/maintain and provide technical leadership for all assigned systems, diagrams, calculations, models, simulations, purchase specifications, and related tasking.
• Review/Approve vendor equipment and other engineering documentation such as drawings, manuals, software, models, or other design documents produced as a part of external vendor contracts.
• Support vendor qualification testing and test approval.
• Interface with Navy and other customers, Construction Trades, Procurement, Quality Assurance, Fleet Service Engineering, Planning Yard, Equipment vendors, and Design teams through appropriate correspondence to support manufacturing, test, commissioning efforts, dock trials, sea trials, and resolve technical issues with assigned systems/tasking.
• Complete technical reports and conduct verbal presentations as required.
• Develop and manage process improvements and cost-out initiatives to improve group performance.
• Support development of scopes of work in support of contract proposals.
• Work with engineering development team and management to design, build, improve, and deploy software tools that support business needs as required.
• Develop supporting documentation, procedures, tests, or training materials.

Skills

Electrical Power

Controls Engineering

System integration

Requirements analysis

Reliability testing

Project management

MBSE

Matlab/Simulink

CAD skills

Data management

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering or related field

MS in Engineering or P.E.

Tools

MBSE tools

Modeling software

Job description

General Dynamics – Bath Iron Works in Maine seeks Electrical Engineers to support development, specification, arrangement, installation, testing of shipboard electrical power, lighting, and controls systems. The successful candidate will perform systems engineering, modeling, and analyses, lead safety and project tasks, and interface with Navy and vendors to resolve technical issues.

A BS in electrical engineering or related field is required, MS/PE preferred, and a government clearance may be