Fleet Chief Engineer
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Fleet Chief Engineer overseeing Leidos maritime vessel engineering, maintenance, compliance, and readiness. Leading engineering personnel and standardizing Vessel Management System, maintenance, and safety practices across programs.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the senior engineering authority for assigned vessels and primary engineering counterpart to the Port Captain.
- Lead, supervise, and develop vessel Chief Engineers, Port Engineers, and other engineering personnel.
- Establish fleet-wide engineering practices, procedures, standards, and technical guidance.
- Oversee preventive and corrective maintenance, repairs, troubleshooting, equipment reliability, and engineering readiness.
- Manage fleet Vessel Management System configuration and administration.
- Ensure maintenance, engineering, equipment, and compliance records are accurate and standardized.
- Represent engineering on the Safety Management System Steering Committee and support SMS governance, risk management, compliance, and continuous improvement.
- Monitor engineering readiness, identify risks and deficiencies, and resolve issues affecting vessel availability or mission execution.
- Coordinate with Port Captains, vessel Masters, Chief Engineers, maintenance teams, program leadership, technical personnel, subcontractors, and customers.
- Provide technical oversight for shipyard periods, dry dockings, emergent repairs, equipment upgrades, and vessel modifications.
- Support inspections, surveys, certifications, and regulatory/classification activities.
- Review and approve engineering practices, maintenance strategies, procedures, records, and documentation.
- Develop standardized processes for inspections, maintenance planning, troubleshooting, casualty response, and repairs.
- Provide subject matter expertise for vessel modifications, equipment integration, system upgrades, and configuration changes.
- Evaluate fleet engineering performance and develop corrective actions to improve reliability, safety, maintenance effectiveness, and readiness.
- Lead lessons-learned activities and fleet-wide knowledge sharing.
- Participate in recruitment, interviews, selection, qualification, and onboarding of senior engineering personnel.
- Mentor engineering staff and support technical competency, leadership development, and succession planning.
- Coordinate parts, spares, materials, technical services, and vendor support with procurement, logistics, warehouse, and subcontract personnel.
- Review vendor and subcontractor performance and provide technical input into scopes of work and repairs.
- Support casualty response and emergent technical issues.
- Provide engineering status, risk, maintenance, and readiness information to leadership and customers.
- Drive continuous improvement through standardization, metrics, technical analysis, and effective Vessel Management System use.
Requirements:
- USCG Chief Engineer License with corresponding STCW Certifications
- Minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible maritime engineering experience, including service as a Chief Engineer, Assistant Engineer, Port Engineer, or equivalent senior marine engineering role.
- Experience with administering computerized Vessel Management Systems or maintenance management systems used to manage preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, equipment records, compliance activities, and technical documentation.
- Ability to perform in an arduous duty environment
- Ability to lift 40lbs
- Must be able to communicate effectively
- Must be a US Citizen
- Ability to obtain and maintain required security, facility, and vessel access credentials.
- Experience operating in a joint, Department of Defense, Military Sealift Command, U.S. Navy, or similarly complex maritime environment is highly desirable.
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Master’s Degree
- PMP Certification
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