Control systems and reliability engineering for naval, rail and industrial assets
The GBS Group is a Virginia Beach engineering firm whose job posts center on HM&E machinery control systems for U.S. Navy ships. Its stack is industrial, not enterprise IT: Siemens and Allen-Bradley PLCs, WinCC, FactoryTalk, Wonderware, LabVIEW and Structured Text, plus ECDIS and Furuno marine tooling. Hiring is accelerating and almost entirely mid-to-senior engineering, with recurring pressure around legacy control upgrades and NIST-aligned cybersecurity.
The GBS Group provides engineering, technical and software services for large, complex assets in the marine, rail, defense, energy and construction sectors. Its work spans reliability and maintenance engineering, controls and automation, systems integration, software development, remote equipment monitoring, satellite/GPS installation and cybersecurity. The company was founded in 2006, is privately held and is headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia. It employs 51–200 people and hires in the United States.
GBS uses C++, C#, Java, Python, MATLAB and LabVIEW alongside industrial controls tools like Siemens PLCs, Allen-Bradley, WinCC, FactoryTalk and Wonderware, plus SQL Server, Jira and Confluence.
Job posts point to HM&E machinery control systems for U.S. Navy vessels, PLC-based shipboard controls, steam plant upgrades, legacy control modernization and control system cybersecurity software.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating and concentrated in engineering, mostly mid and senior level, with all roles based in the United States.
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