McKean Defense is a Naval Life Cycle Management, Engineering, Enterprise Transformation and Program Management business headquartered in Philadelphia, PA. McKean’s engineers, developers, technical staff, programmers, analysts, and program managers identify and deploy new shipboard technologies, integrate information technology across shipboard platforms, and develop strategies to support the Warfighter. McKean’s employees create strategic solutions to help customers reach new levels of mission support and transform their organizations. McKean Defense is employee owned, and values the life experiences of potential candidates, including those who have served our Military. Currently, 38% of McKean’s employee owner workforce are veterans.

McKean Defense is seeking a Control Systems Engineer. This role includes the design, modification, and testing of networks, navigation, and machinery control systems in labs and onboard US Navy ships. The candidate will provide test support, documentation, configuration control, and analysis of failures for deployed systems and hardware in design. This position will support fielded Machinery Control Systems on Navy vessels and will require working with software teams to distinguish root cause of failures, systems engineers to identify requirements and solutions at the lowest replaceable unit, and program managers and the fleet to identify optimal implementation of solutions. The candidate must be comfortable working with electrical, computer, and mechanical systems.

Principal Duties/Responsibilities:

1. Operate in a fast-paced team environment to respond to issues identified in testing or in the field

2. Identify methods to find and resolve issues, working to determine root cause and work with others to propose options for fleet-wide resolution

3. Respond to obsolescence issues and implement designs to avoid / mitigate future obsolescence risks

4. Troubleshoot and repair both Versa Module Eurocard (VME) Bus / VPX and Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) equipped systems and components

5. Support teams with distance and on-site troubleshooting and repair of various shipboard Machinery Control System (MCS) hardware and software problems

6. Conduct VPX system bench-top prototyping development, requiring programming, integrating testing, and analyzing candidate VPX boards and associated LINUX-based and Windows 10 operating systems for Machinery Control System replacement

7. Operationally test, troubleshoot and repair the Class Machinery Control System (MCS)

Required Skills

1. Shipboard or industrial experience with machinery control system installation, operational testing, troubleshooting, and repair

2. Experience troubleshooting software-based machinery control systems

3. Ability to use electrical and software based analysis tools including oscilloscopes, multi-meters, network traffic analyzers (such as Wireshark)

4. VPX-based system and hardware development experience preferred

5. Versa Model Eurocard (VME) Bus experience preferred

6. Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) experience

7. Experience with machinery network and hard wired signal interfaces

8. Experience in developing schematics, wiring diagrams, installation drawings and procedures, and troubleshooting/maintenance procedures

9. Experience in reviewing schematics to isolate shipboard issues and redlining drawings if discrepancy were found

10. Experience with Ethernet network, Profibus, RS-485/422/232, Modbus and fiber optic standards and protocols

11. Experience designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software based simulations

12. Strong written and verbal communication skill

Travel may be required up to 25%.

Required Experience

Bachelor's Degree in an engineering discipline - Computer, Electrical, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering preferred.

1-2 years of experience directly related to systems testing and/or troubleshooting

Candidate must have a security clearance, or have the ability to obtain one.

Equal Opportunity Employer–minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity.

McKean Defense is an E-Verify company.

1. Shipboard or industrial experience with machinery control system installation, operational testing, troubleshooting, and repair

2. Experience troubleshooting software-based machinery control systems

3. Ability to use electrical and software based analysis tools including oscilloscopes, multi-meters, network traffic analyzers (such as Wireshark)

4. VPX-based system and hardware development experience preferred

5. Versa Model Eurocard (VME) Bus experience preferred

6. Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) experience

7. Experience with machinery network and hard wired signal interfaces

8. Experience in developing schematics, wiring diagrams, installation drawings and procedures, and troubleshooting/maintenance procedures

9. Experience in reviewing schematics to isolate shipboard issues and redlining drawings if discrepancy were found

10. Experience with Ethernet network, Profibus, RS-485/422/232, Modbus and fiber optic standards and protocols

11. Experience designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software based simulations

12. Strong written and verbal communication skill

Travel may be required up to 25%.