Lead Field Service Engineer/Commissioning Engineer Immediate Need

Job Description

Job Description

At BNS Power, we provide complete lifecycle solutions that ensure long-term safety, reliability, and operational excellence. Our expertise spans engineering design, manufacturing, installation, maintenance, and strategic retrofits, ensuring mission-critical power systems perform when it matters most. 

BNS offers a competitive and relevant benefits package that keeps our employees in mind! The package includes medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401(k), and PTO.

BNS is seeking a Lead Field Service Engineer to join our growing engineering team. 

POSITION SUMMARY

The Lead Field Service Engineer – Power Systems under general guidance and minimal supervision, performs a wide range of engineering tasks and ensures proper installation, service and commissioning of products and services. Provides technical support for installation and commissioning of projects and provides maintenance, breakdown emergency support and remote troubleshooting.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The following duties reflect the employees’ current contributions and expectations in their role:

· Performs installation and commissioning activities at customer site locations during ship construction. Must be capable of working unsupervised and leading small teams.

· Performs troubleshooting activities at site locations during scheduled Port visits or at sea to diagnose problems, determine appropriate resolution, and implements corrective actions.

· Performs a wide range of engineering tasks to ensure the technical integrity and proper installation and commissioning of GEPC Power systems and associated control systems.

· Develops presentations and provides training and instruction to customers on system operations.

· Promotes sales of services, parts, and CM&Us

· Performs other related engineering tasks to facilitate proper commissioning and customer satisfaction.

· Provide on-call support in response to customer calls for service

QUALIFICATIONS

· Minimum 3 years of field service and/or commissioning experience

· US Citizen with the ability to achieve security clearance for Department of Defense projects

· Ability and willingness to travel up to 85% of the time on short notice

· Must be physically fit to be able to board vessels offshore.

· Must be able to pass a HUET and offshore survival course which includes activities in a swimming pool.

DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS

· Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline from an accredited college or university (or Associate's Degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline from an accredited college or university with a minimum 3 additional years of related field service experience in a field service/ commissioning environment with Power systems and associated control systems).

· Switchgear- Medium Voltage and Low Voltage

· Circuit Breakers- MCCBs, ACBs, VCBs

· Sensing Instruments- PTs, CTs, Transducers

· Transformers- phase shifting transformers for VFD application

· Motor Control Centers (MCCs)- Basic Starters with Start/ Stop, Multi Speed Starters, Wye-Delta Starters, Hand/ Off/ Auto control, Local/ Remote control

· Soft Starters/ VFDs

· Transfer Switches- Manual and Auto

· Protection Relays- Generator, Transformer, Feeder, Motor, and Bus

· Enhanced generator protection schemes

· Power Quality meters

· Automatic Voltage Regulators (AVR)- Generator Excitation Control for synchronizing and load sharing

· Governors- Engine Speed control for synchronizing and load sharing

· Synchronizers/ Sync Check Relays

· Load Sharing Systems

· Ability to execute increasingly complicated assignments, which require considerable engineering skill and creative ability and independent judgment

BNS CULTURE
Join BNS Power and be part of a team that’s powering and connecting what protects America.
At BNS, we value our people and their personal and professional growth. We believe that our core values of mission first, integrity always, service beyond self, excellence in execution, innovation for resilience, diversity as strength, and partnership-driven create an environment where people can build fulfilling, long-term, careers.

BNS is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).