You will serve as the Advanced Damage Control System (ADCS) Technical Program Lead in the Code 50 Cybersecure Hull, Mechanical and Electrical (HM&E) Controls and Networking Department, Code 51 Hull, Mechanical and Electrical (HM&E) Control Systems Surface Ship Division, Code 514 Advanced Damage Control Systems (ADCS) and MCS LSD MCM Branch of NSWC PHILA DIV.

Duties

You will serve as the In-Service Engineering Agents for and has responsibility of providing requirements, fleet support, and development of government owned software based systems that comprise the Advanced Damage Control System (ADCS). You will serve as the Program Lead for ADCS including but not limited to CVN 68 and 78, DDG 1000, DDG(x), FFG 62, LCS, LPD 17, LHD 1 programs. You will manage the systems, software, and test teams to meet program schedules and milestones, deliverables, and identify and manage risk. You will be responsible for communicating program risk to the Branch Head and Program Office, communicating and interfacing with personnel and entities. You will participate with systems, software, and test leads to understand current and future program requirements and status of tasking, and facilitating obtaining the needed information for systems, software, and test leads to execute tasking. You will identify program needs for manning, funding, and equipment, and facilitating and obtaining the necessary manning, funding, and equipment. You will manage managing Direct Cite and Cost Reimbursable funding, program resources and resources needed for in and out-years, forecasting, and tracking progress. You will develop and maintain program Plan of Action and Milestones (POAM), Task Planning Sheets (TPS) identifying task summaries, cost justifications, and tasking, briefs for the Branch Head and the Program Office. You will provide management and technical direction to multiple stakeholders in various organizations assisting with program evaluations, oversees analytical assessments concerning the design, performance, cost and schedule planning. You will interface with stakeholders involved in program and engineering functions to analyze, prepare and defend resource forecasts, financial plans, and budget submissions. You will oversee the development of plans working with diverse teams, performing as the authoritative expert on ADCS for new construction and in-service ships, projects, mission requirements, and complex Navy and industry relationships. You will work closely with ADCS for new construction and in-service ships, stakeholders and sponsors to develop agreed upon program goals and technical objectives based on a broad knowledge of current and future fleet needs You will develop program plans to support the technical goals and objectives and manages the technical products of these projects to ensure they meet the specific details of the program plan. You will manage the on-time delivery of software for Control Systems including but not limited to Damage Control Systems (DCS), Advanced Damage Control Systems (ADCS) and Ballast Control Systems (BCS). You will participate in high level meetings as a senior representative of the assigned projects, provides a wide range of substantive oral and written presentations and reports to officials, military and civilian, within and outside the Navy. You will prepare and present a wide range of clear and concise briefs, reports, charts and graphs covering a variety of problem subjects.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• This is a bargaining unit position.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• You will be required to complete ethics orientation within three months of appointment and submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450, within 30 days of appointment.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: As a professional Engineer managing or overseeing Naval Advanced Damage Control System technology to identify and mitigate cyber security vulnerabilities in support of Hull, Mechanical & Electrical ship systems, such as digital Damage Control Systems and Ballast Control Systems, as well as Cyber Risk Management Framework. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series AND https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Education

Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:

Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.

OR

Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org

OR

Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html.

OR

Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above)

OR

Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least one year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily, there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions.

Contacts

• Address NSWC PHILA DIV 5001 South Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19112 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]