Senior Naval Architect

Company: Serco
Location: Fredericksburg
Posted on: April 22, 2025

Job Description:

Position DescriptionIf you love high profile and challenging projects supporting the US Navy and Commercial Customers - Serco has a great opportunity for you! The successful candidate will be part of the engineering team designing US Navy surface ships based in Arlington, VA.The Naval Architect performs routine analyses and prepares naval architectural deliverables in support of the design of ships, craft, and other floating structures.In this role you will:

• Participate in the development and validation of design and engineering requirements, preparation of specifications, and provide inputs to technical reports and presentations.
• Provide hull form and hydrodynamic performance, including development of hull form geometry and lines plans, hydrostatics and curves of form, resistance, and powering estimates, propulsor design and performance, appendage design, maneuvering analyses, seakeeping analyses, development of model test plans, and observing and analyzing data from model tests or full-scale trials.
• Provide weight and stability analyses, including development of weight and center of gravity estimates, performance of intact and damaged stability analyses, performance of deadweight surveys and inclining experiments.
• Provide concept and feasibility design studies addressing whole ship sizing and performance analyses, requirements validation, and design optimization.
• Perform design integration, coordinating inputs from various naval architectural and other engineering disciplines, such as marine engineering and structures, into balanced, closed solution designs to establish principal characteristics and design features such as length, beam, depth, draft, displacement, speed, and other performance parameters.
• Perform structural design, developing hull girder bending moments and structural configurations and scantlings in accordance with appropriate rules or design standards, development of superstructure, mast, and local support structure to withstand primary and secondary loads.
• Make general arrangements and configuration, developing requirements for area and volume, preparing overall ship arrangement concepts and drawings illustrating primary functional allocation of spaces within the ship considering location and adjacency constraints, performing special studies including access and line of sight analyses, assisting in detailed layouts of individual compartments such as living and berthing spaces, ship support spaces, storerooms, and shops.
• Assist with the review of design proposals and specifications.
• Participate in scheduled project review sessions and meetings with representatives from other engineering disciplines and customers on technical and engineering issues.
• Assist in design integration with representatives from other engineering disciplines and customers on technical and engineering issues.
• Assist in preparing documentation, reports, and project plans to describe activities planned and accomplished, status reports, letters, memoranda, messages, and contact reports.
• Assist with preparation and presentation of formal briefings and staff seminars.
• Comply with all corporate policies and procedures, including quality assurance and security procedures, in the performance of duties.QualificationsTo be successful in this role, you must have:
  • A Bachelor's degree in Naval Architecture or related engineering field such as Ocean Engineering.
  • 7 years of relevant work experience. Work experience may be adjusted for highly specialized knowledge or uniquely applicable experience for positions involving new technology.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance (post employment).
  • Working knowledge of structures, hydrodynamics, weights and stability, speed and powering, hull form design, arrangements, manning, vibration, damage control and survivability.
  • Familiarity with and use of U.S Navy and MIL Specifications related to ship design, classification society rules, and professional society guidance and specifications.
  • Experience with 2D and 3D CAD software and common Naval Architecture design software programs and finite elements modeling and simulations.
  • Ability to travel 10%.If you are interested in supporting and working with our passionate Serco team - then submit your application now for immediate consideration. It only takes a few minutes and could change your career!
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