Senior Submarine Structures Specialist (FEA)

Description

Job Title: Senior Submarine Structures Specialist (FEA)
Location: Halifax, NS, Ottawa, ON, or Victoria, BC
Employment Type: Permanent, Full-Time
Annual Salary: $130,000-150,000

About BMT

BMT is dedicated to tackling the most crucial engineering challenges of our era, fostering an environment where individuals with exceptional technical expertise provide meaningful, practical solutions. Committed to creating a safer, more efficient, effective, and sustainable future, BMT values diversity, equity, and inclusion, recognizing their pivotal role in achieving our business purpose. Learn more about BMT at www.bmt.org.

Key Responsibilities

The Senior Submarine Structures Specialist (FEA) is responsible for professionally and efficiently executing work in support of client taskings for submarines.

• Provide Naval Architecture advice and support to external and internal customers.
• Manage your own technical work and evaluate its effectiveness to improve best practice.
• Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Comply with relevant business and ethics codes of conduct.
• Undertake engineering and non-engineering activities in a way that contributes to best practice.
• Act as Technical Lead on specified projects.
• Act as Technical Assurer on specified projects.
• Act as Project Manager (PM) on specified projects.
• Work within the BMT Quality Management System (QMS) processes and procedures.
• Maintain your technical competency in your area(s) of specialization.
• Promotes building a positive team culture through input, feedback and participation in team building and wellness activities.

Role Specific:

• Proven experience in the use of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software creating models and running analyses.

Pressure Hull Inelastic Collapse Assessment

• Experienced in FEA for Pressure Hull Inelastic Collapse Assessment, including ability to define and implement a process that defines the collapse and operational depths of the pressure hull based on design standards, FEA results, uncertainty and safety factor knock-down approach.
• Familiar with the design and analysis process of submarine pressure hulls, both for existing platforms and new design.
• The ability to search for different failure modes, due to the incorporation of different construction defects, both for existing platforms and new design.
• The ability to provide clear direction on how to obtain different failure modes, under different construction defects, both for existing platforms and new design.
• The ability to calculate and reduce uncertainties using numerical and real experiments, both for existing platforms and new design.
• Familiar with submarine pressure hull structural features.
• Highly skilled in performing non-linear FEA.
• Experience using and addressing the challenges of the risk-method, and/or the arc-length method.
• Experience creating the “paper” submarine pressure hull.
• Experience implementing Verification & Validation in solid mechanics simulations.

Pressure Hull Fatigue Analysis

• Familiar with fatigue assessment using design standards such as PD5500.
• Highly skilled in performing linear FEAs and stress linearization.

Non-resistant Structures Design

• Familiar with pressure hull non-resistant structures including deck, soft tanks, and foundations.
• Highly skilled in performing linear FEAs.

Shock Assessment

• Highly skilled in performing linear, modal, response spectrum and transient FEAs.
• Familiar with naval shock standards such as STANAG 4142.

General

• Work with Shipyards, Dockyards, Owners, Class and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) to conduct ship surveys for design and engineering changes, mid-life upgrades and vessel condition documentation.
• Maintain a program of Continuing Professional Development to sustain your technical knowledge.
• Work with Capability Manager to identify the levels of suitably qualified and experienced personnel (SQEP) required to fulfil current and projected demand.
• Work with Capability Manager to identify training or other developmental opportunities to develop SQEP within BMT.
• Work with Capability Manager to identify resources for project work, training and development opportunities.
• Mentor BMT staff who are developing skills, qualifications and experience in their domain.
• Arbitrate on disputes concerning technical content within their domain.
• Stamp and Seal Professional Engineering deliverables in area of practise.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Essential:

• Degree in Marine Engineering or Naval Architecture;
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Naval Architecture;
• Extensive experience conducting FEA on submarine structures;
• Existing registration or ability to obtain registration with Professional Engineering governance body in Province of work;
• Eligible for a Canadian and International security clearance; and,
• Hold a valid passport and be able to travel internationally on a minimum of a 3-month deployment every 12 months.

Desirable:

• Detailed knowledge and experience in designing and conducting FEA analysis on composite materials.
• Experience working in a shipyard during the in-service support of naval systems and/or engineering design.

Why Work For Us?

At BMT we believe in hiring the best talent, from diverse backgrounds, as this introduces new ideas to the team and our customers. We believe in a cooperative and collaborative work environment and support and encourage career growth.

The successful candidate will receive a competitive salary commensurate with skill, ability and experience, as well as a comprehensive benefit package including:

• Medical, dental and vision plan (including a Health Care Spending Account)
• Employee and Family Assistance program
• Parental/Maternity leave top-up program
• RRSP or TFSA matching program
• Flexible work hours and hybrid work arrangement
• Training and development opportunities
• Employee recognition program
• Employee referral program

BMT is committed to employment equity, to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity amongst its workforce. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. BMT is a maritime-orientated high-end design house and technical consulting firm driven by a passion for solving complex, real-world problems

Our core business comprises distinctive and sustainable capabilities, which we leverage to address the needs of our customers and markets and are the primary focus of future capability development.

We exist to navigate the most important and impactful engineering challenges of our time. We create environments where people with outstanding technical knowledge deliver meaningful, practical solutions. We are driven by a commitment to a safer, more efficient, effective and sustainable future.