Engineering Technician - Nuclear Propulsion; Engineering Technician

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$64,337.00 per year – $80,000.00 per year

• Requisition Number: 26097
• Required Travel: 0 – 10%
• Employment Type:
  
  Full Time/Hourly/Non-Exempt
• Anticipated Salary Range: $64,337.00–$80,000.00
• Security Clearance:
  Ability to Obtain
• Level of
  
  Experience:
  
  Mid

Mission Technologies’ Global Security (GS) group comprises live, virtual, constructive (LVC) solutions; fleet sustainment; nuclear and environmental; and Australia business. As a trusted partner to our military customers, HII designs, develops and operates the largest LVC enterprise that prepares warfighters for cross‑domain battle. With advanced technologies to enable mission readiness, HII understands that preparation requires full coordination – not readiness in piece‑parts.

For more than 40 years, the U.S. Navy has entrusted HII to maintain and modernise the vast majority of its fleet, with a holistic approach to life‑cycle maritime defence systems – from small watercraft to submarines, surface combatants and aircraft carriers – ensuring a high state of readiness. HII also supports the Department of Energy’s national security mission through the management and operation of its sites, and safe cleanup of legacy waste.

Maritime Operations within Mission Technologies – Nuclear & Environmental Services is looking for an Engineering Technician 4 to join the team in Newport News, VA. Engineering Technicians in the Maritime Operations group support a wide variety of functional areas at Newport News Shipyard, specifically supporting Newport News Shipbuilding in the Nuclear Propulsion Division in key roles in Nuclear Test Engineering.

• Provides technical support to engineers on a variety of technical tasks.
• Gathers, maintains, formats, compiles, and manipulates technical data such as laboratory or material test results and engineering design changes.
• Produces engineering documentation, reports, drawings (flow charts, block diagrams, and schematics).
• Performs detailed mathematical calculations using established formulas.
• Conducts preliminary analyses of data where guidelines are provided in such areas as trajectory adequacy, model dimensional consistency, and quantitative judgments concerning technical data.
• Uses a personal computer in performance of analyses and development of documentation/reports.
• May conduct tests and record data to assist with engineering evaluation or analysis.

• Associate’s Degree or other 2‑year technical degree in a related discipline with 6 years of related experience, OR High School Diploma or equivalent with 8 years of related (DoD/USN) experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
• U.S. citizenship.
• Prior Navy nuclear propulsion experience, Department of Energy or commercial nuclear power experience.

• Actively pursuing an ABET‑accredited bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
• Prior nuclear operations or work control experience.
• Navy Nuclear Power School (NNPS) graduate.
• Four (4) years of related manufacturing, shipbuilding, or trades experience.

Job performance requires adequate visual acuity and manual dexterity; a waterfront office work environment is normally encountered.

HII offers best‑in‑class medical, dental and vision plan choices; wellness resources; employee assistance programs; a 401(k) savings plan; financial planning tools, life insurance; employee discounts; paid holidays and paid time off; tuition reimbursement; early childhood and post‑secondary education scholarships. Bonus/other non‑recurring compensation is occasionally offered for qualified positions, and will be addressed by the recruiter during the screening phase.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e‑mail to ; only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this address. You may also call (Press #3 for HII Mission Technologies).