Senior Marine Engineer - Applied Research Associates, Inc

The Mission Concepts & Capabilitis (MCC) division of Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is seeking to hire an experienced Senior Marine Engineer that is responsible for all operations and maintenance associated with all engineering equipment throughout the vessels or other craft used for vessel operations.  Additionally, the Chief works with the Vessel Team to ensure equipment installed is safely integrated and does not damage the vessel or its subsystems. 

Upon successful onboarding the incumbent will be responsible for the following:

• All preventive and corrective maintenance
• Planning, executing and documenting all periodic maintenance requirements which includes daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual
• Maintaining, ordering and installing repair parts
• Maintaining appropriate levels of on-board spares
• On Scene Leader for any emergency aboard the vessel to include fire, man overboard, or any other casualty
• On Scene Leader for launch and recovery of assets from vessel and during docking and undocking evolutions
• Maintains all damage control and firefighting equipment
• Maintain all shipboard auxiliary systems to include ground tackle, deck equipment and boat launch/recovery systems
• Maintains Stiletto electrical generators and distribution systems

Required Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in Navy maritime research and development programs
• 10 years previous experience in Marine Engineering
• Significant experience in high-speed diesel-powered platforms
• Strong deck plate electrical background and proven performance in marine platforms
• Significant experience in maintaining/repairing carbon fiber hulls
• Experience in a Fabrication/Repair Facility – Integrating new systems
• Vessel dry-docking experience
• Recent installation experience of newer maritime technologies that may have application to military missions. Technologies of interest include Radar, Electro Optics, Infrared Sensors, Communications, Electrical Power, Structural Materials, and propulsion systems
• Recent experience in launch and recovery of unmanned systems and their operations from a maritime platform. This includes air, surface and underwater systems.
• Secret Security Clearance required

COMPANY INFORMATION:

Applied Research Associates, Inc. is an employee-owned international research and engineering company recognized for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. The company, founded in Albuquerque, NM, in 1979, currently employs over 1200 professionals. ARA offices throughout the United States and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense technologies, civil technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement. The corporation also provides sophisticated technical products for environmental site characterization, pavement analysis, and robotics.

At ARA, employees are our greatest assets. The corporation realizes that employee ownership fosters greater creativity and initiative along with higher performance and customer satisfaction levels. ARA gives its employees the tools, training, and opportunities to take more active roles as owners. The culture is challenging; innovation and experimentation are the norm. Employees are eligible for contributions which not only add to the company’s success, but also their own through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The motto, “Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit” sums up the ARA experience. For additional information and an opportunity to join this unique workplace, please visit our website at www.ara.com.

Please apply at www.careers.ara.com for the Senior Marine Engineer position.

Experience

• 10 - 12 years: Relevant work experience

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)