Marine Engineering Assistant Vice President, Engineering Group
Gibbs & Cox

Arlington, Virginia

Posted in Defence and Military


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Gibbs & Cox, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos, is the largest independent naval architecture and marine engineering firm in the United States. Since our founding in 1929, 24 classes of combatants and nearly 7,000 vessels have been built to Gibbs & Cox designs. We proudly support military and commercial clients in the U.S. and internationally with all phases of marine design, construction, and lifecycle management. Our passion is solving our customers' 21st century maritime challenges with quality and integrity.

The Marine Engineering Assistant Vice President reports to the Engineering Group Vice President and is responsible for the vision, leadership, and management of the Machinery, Electrical and C4I Departments towards development, implementation and sustainment of the policies and practices that guide the Engineering Group. A key element of this role is to motivate, develop and train engineering staff to drive performance and achieve team goals and company objectives, as well as provide coaching, mentoring, and guidance to direct reports, encouraging growth, professional development, and career advancement of the engineering staff. The Assistant Vice President is responsible for the quality, integrity, schedule, and delivery of products from these departments.

Roles and Responsibilities

  • The Assistant Vice President must recruit skilled resources in a competitive labor market to grow and maintain a multidiscipline engineering team that satisfies the Company's engineering services and research needs for marine and electrical engineering.
  • This Assistant Vice President must develop and lead a team of engineering professionals with the ability to see the big picture, envisioning how engineering disciplines distribute, collaborate, and integrate in a multi-project matrix environment to create the end product on time and within budget.
  • The Assistant Vice President must operate within our ISO-9001 engineering process and development methodology, mentoring and training engineering staff, and have experience in development and enhancement of the engineering environment consisting of leading-edge computer-aided analysis, engineering and management tools and technologies.
  • The Assistant Vice President must develop and maintain a collaborative team attitude in a multiple project matrix environment that takes ownership and pride in the compliance, performance and quality of all solutions and products developed within the with the departments they oversee.
  • The Assistant Vice President will work with the Group VP to evaluate and develop technologies, research projects and innovation strategies; encouraging and supporting the evaluation of enabling technology, processes, and tools to improve productivity, lower design and product cost, and improve quality.
  • Liaise with Company leadership, Business Group managers, and Marketing to support, encourage and help identify new business opportunities.

Experience

The Assistant Vice President, should have demonstrated experience in:

  • New Construction: Early phase total ship and ship system design, with expereince with engineering support and contribution to overall ship systems detailed design, along with experience in the evolution, development and application of military and commercial system design standards.
  • In-service support: Planning and executing the engineering associated with maintenance, refurbishment, and upgrade of ships and ship systems.
  • Technical areas of functional ship systems requirements, covering shipboard systems analysis, engineering specification and analysis of propulsion, auxilixary, electrical, and electronics equipment and systems (mechanical and electrical systems).
  • Management of a marine engineering (machinery/electrical) organizations, preferably within a matrix-oriented organization, with a responsibility for development of funtional products for new ship designs, as well as providing engineering support for in-service ships, for both government and commerical clients.
  • In-depth experience is working with national and international standards organizations, standards development committees, and government and commercial client technical approving authorities and regulatory bodies.
  • Experience in working directly with shipyards and various maritime related customers and vendors (such as USN, USCG, large and small shipbuilders, commerical owners and operators, and marine equipment and solutions suppliers).

Personal Attributes

The successful Assistant Vice President must be an individual that possesses many, if not all, of the following personal attributes;

  • Able to attract, staff, motivate and lead a multi-disciplined and focused engineering team.
  • Proven track record interacting with customers regarding technical issues.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Solid organizational and time management abilities.
  • Problem solver who is fast on their feet.
  • Personal style needed to work in an energetic and growing company.
  • Willing to put in the hours and roll-up the sleeves.
  • Enthusiastic and high energy zeal.
  • Earn the respect and trust of executive team.
  • Proven collaborator with superiors, peers and staff.
  • Able to personally solve technical problems.
  • Flexible, resourceful, figure-it-out-and-get-it-done mentality.

Minimum requirements

  • Assistant Vice President must have a minimum of 15 years of experience in naval and maritime engineering with at least 5 years of this experience in a progressive management role, with emphasis on roles within a commercial and U.S. Navy marine engineering and naval architecture services company. This individual should have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in naval architecture, marine engineering or related engineering discipline. A professional engineering certification is desired. Compensation will be established as; a) base salary plus; b) bonus based upon achievement of specified performance goals.


  • Security Requirements
    Applicant will be subject to a security investigation and must meet the eligibility requirements to obtain and maintain a security clearance issued by the US Government. In addition to the security clearance, this position may require an additional background screening for base access.

    Gibbs & Cox is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. The VEVRAA, VEVRAA | U.S. Department of Labor (dol.gov), covers veterans.

    @2021 Gibbs & Cox, Inc. Gibbs & Cox, Gibbs & Cox logo are registered trademarks. All rights reserved


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