General Dynamics Electric Boat
D489 MAIN PROPULSION CONTROL SYSTEM (MPC) SYSTEMS ENGINEER (ELECTRICAL) (ENGINEER I/II)
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Job Description
- Req#: 15079
- Coordinate supplier MPC design and redesign efforts (Hardware and Software)
- Verify design compliance with specifications and system requirements
- Support testing and troubleshooting for MPCs at the IPS CTF and supplier facility
- Support lifecycle management activities such as spares procurement
- Interface with technical and management personnel at NAVSEA, NNL, NSWC, and vendors
- Interface with Operations and Trades at Electric Boat manufacturing and testing facilities
- Enforce technical requirements on vendors
- BS or MS engineering degree with technical background (Electrical, Systems, Mechatronics, etc.)
- 0 - 3 years of relevant engineering experience
- Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance
- Experience using Microsoft products
- Ability to occasionally travel to remote facilities within the United States (Philadelphia, PA; Washington, D.C.)
- Experience working with government customers
- Ability to understand macro level objectives and priorities while driving detailed level actions
- Multi-disciplinary systems engineering experience in complex systems based products
- Experience with MIL Standards
- Experience in control systems and digital signal processing theory and development
- Experience using MATLAB and/or Simulink
- Effective communicator
- Highly driven personality
- Self-Starting mentality
- Strong leadership skills
- Strong problem solver, exceptionally well organized, and detail oriented
Overview
Department 489 is part of the COLUMBIA Class Integrated Power Systems (IPS) Directorate and has an opening for an engineer to support design, manufacture, test, shipboard integration, analysis, and system testing of the COLUMBIA Class Main Propulsion Control System (MPC). The D489 MPC team responsibilities include MPC design development/redesign efforts, qualification testing, and analysis for all systems within the component including digital signal processors, general purpose processors, control systems, etc. Additionally, the team has a strong focus on driving the supplier deliverables, test procedures, test reports, and design to meet all applicable requirements without deviation while identifying deficiencies in the specification to apply lessons learned to future electric propulsion plant submarine topologies. Engineers in the group will (1) oversee manufacturing progress at the vendor facility in Danbury, CT, (2) assist in MPC construction support at the Electric Boat Quonset Point, RI and Groton, CT shipyards and (3) support shipboard integration testing at the IPS Compatibility Test Facility (CTF) in Philadelphia, PA.
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