Port Engineer Program

T-Solutions’ flagship is the Port Engineer Program. We recruit, hire, train and support a large cadre of highly experienced Maritime and Navy engineers providing waterfront maintenance engineering support services to U.S. Navy surface ships as well as the Regional Maintenance Commands (RMCs) and Combined Fleet Forces Command (CFFC). T-Solutions Port Engineers are the key members of Maintenance Teams which validate, screen, prioritize and assign all off-ship maintenance for their assigned ships. T-Solutions Port Engineers embody “corporate maintenance knowledge” for their ships, with many serving over 10 continuous years on the same ship or class. Port Engineers are enablers of the application of Condition Based Maintenance and Continuous Maintenance to optimize surface ship maintenance.

The Port Engineer Program has been a singular success in enabling the U.S. Navy surface force to achieve optimum material readiness within constrained funding levels. The program has been in existence since 1980 when Congress, in response to GAO findings, recommended the Navy adopt commercial best practices for maintaining U.S. Navy surface ships. It has expanded over the years and now encompasses all ships of the U.S. Navy surface force. The success of the program can be directly attributed to years of maintaining uniformly high standards of personnel quality and integrity through a mix of contract and government port engineers possessing USCG engineer licenses, commercial or Navy operating and maintenance expertise and formal engineering degrees. T-Solutions Port Engineers offer the Navy the flexibility to recruit top industry talent and support dynamic programmatic and operational requirements.

Port Engineers are a mix of civil servants and contractors located within their respective RMCs and communicate directly with RMC management and COMNAVSURFORCE staff. Port Engineers are assigned one or two ships, depending on the ship class, and are the ship’s maintenance advocate. Port Engineers duties include:

• Act as the RMC and COMNAVSURFORCE single point of contact in coordinating efforts of all maintenance and planning activities
  in support of depot and intermediate level repairs, maintenance, and modernization for assigned ships.
• Validate and diagnose maintenance requirements based on their knowledge and experience and recommend maintenance actions
  to assigned Ship COs.
• Screen level of maintenance (depot vs. IMA) based on their knowledge and experience.
• Develop maintenance business plan for review and decision by the ship CO and the RMC Commanding Officer.
• Provide technical leadership and coordination for their Maintenance Team.
• Provide management and quality oversight of the execution of maintenance in repair activities.
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