Senior Mechanical Engineer

4 weeks ago


Canberra, ACT, Australia Leidos Full time
Overview

Gibbs & Cox Australia (GCA) provides world-leading naval and marine engineering expertise for Australia's maritime enterprise. Our vision is a vibrant, sustainable, sovereign Australian shipbuilding, design and maritime enterprise. GCA is a subsidiary of Leidos Gibbs & Cox, an international leader in naval ship design, providing naval engineering and design services on a range of major combatant and surface autonomy programs. Gibbs & Cox has a proud history of excellence, serving naval, government, commercial, and private marine clients since 1929. GCA leverages support from Gibbs & Cox's international network of expertise to offer world\'s best practice in naval ship design and engineering. In Australia, we operate a select, highly skilled, internationally diverse engineering team, providing engineering and design advisory services to Australia\'s naval programs, and maritime autonomy system development. Our team holds expertise across naval architecture, marine engineering, systems engineering, integrated logistics support, engineering consulting and acquisition program management.

PositionResponsibilities
  • Assess and advise on key mechanical system capability, and technical risks;
  • Support the review of technical deliverables from the project's Head Contractor;
  • Review system documentation, operating procedures, schematics and design calculations, applying mechanical system engineering principles, techniques, procedures and criteria for naval ship designs;
  • Engagement with the combat system delivery participants to address provision of combat system platform support requirements, and establishment of the associated mechanical interfaces;
  • Assess and advise on suitability of system characteristics including performance, contribute to safety and supportability aspects of the program;
  • Review and provide guidance on compliance with classification society rule sets and codes;
  • Mentor and share experience and lessons with project team personnel to advance mechanical engineering skills and knowledge within the project\'s technical team.
Qualifications
  • Degree-qualified mechanical or marine systems engineer with strong knowledge and experience in marine mechanical systems
  • Strong communication skills, including the ability to engage with senior stakeholders and decision authorities and explain complex positions and issues in a concise manner
  • A demonstrated ability to lead, mentor and share experience and lessons with the project team membership to build mechanical engineering skills and abilities in the project team
  • An ability to influence thinking and advocate for the Project team\'s interests across multiple program stakeholders with divergent interests
  • An ability to rapidly assimilate information and describe viable concepts for solutions
  • A positive, solutions-orientated attitude
Knowledge and understanding
  • Strong knowledge and experience in naval ship mechanical systems
  • Experience in design and specification of marine mechanical and auxiliary systems, including cooling systems
  • Understanding of systems engineering process - from specification writing, requirement analysis and traceability through to system level design/interface, and requirements management.

Knowledge and understanding of the following aspects will be an advantage:

  • Understanding of propulsion, fire-fighting and other auxiliary systems
  • Professional Engineering Credential (in Mechanical Engineering, Marine Engineering or other applicable discipline)
  • Experience with verification, validation and set to work and commissioning activities

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