This position is part of the Warfare Centers Personnel Demonstration Project. The ND-5 pay band encompasses positions equivalent to GS-14 and GS-15. You will serve as the Medium Landing Ship (LSM) Deputy Ship Design Manager (DSDM) in the Naval Architecture & Engineering Department, Naval Architecture & Engineering Division, Amphibious Ships Branch (Code 8412) of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division.

Duties

You will be responsible to the Ship Design Manager and SEA 05 Division Director for total ship systems engineering on the assigned projects, which involve high value capital warships, combat systems and associated equipment. You will focus on the specifications, development, integration, testing and sustainment of systems, equipment, and whole platform solutions that form the ship design. You will direct design and engineering projects on ship programs of National importance. You will direct project teams and development efforts for program assignments which require the highly skilled application of scientific and systems engineering theories, concepts and principles. You will perform engineering studies and develop technically acceptable options and provide associated risk mitigations for solutions to ship and its systems. You will support systems engineering reviews, element certification, engineering critiques and test readiness events. You will direct the formulation and execution of systems engineering functions on major engineering development programs or projects. You will ensure that assigned project engineers adhere to technical policy requirements and program office policy and procedures. You will develop engineering policy for compliance by Navy project engineers and contractors developing and constructing ship systems to meet our Nation's vital security needs. You will chair naval architecture-related integrated product teams (IPTs) and visit laboratories and contractor facilities to obtain reports of program status to ascertain progress toward completion. You will direct the assessment of high-risk high-value technical issues to determine the range of acceptable solutions and threshold ships and ship systems. You will develop and interpret the application of engineering policy to arrive at critical program/project decisions to resolve conflicts and determine courses of action and the scope of risk reduction efforts. You will identify technically acceptable options, and negotiate the resolution of challenging technical, resource, and requirement issues directly with program managers, top-level engineers, and key project personnel. You will support the Ship Design Manger (SDM) who is the single individual responsible to approve the scope of engineering effort required to support ship designs. You will serve as a National-level senior technical expert that speaks for the Navy in assigned areas of design systems engineering and naval architecture and explain and advocate the application of these principles on assigned programs. You will represent higher-level technical authority regarding systems engineering issues or matters of engineering policy to negotiate decisions affecting critical outcomes.

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
• 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.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final Secret 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 is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA). Certification in the Acquisition Functional Area and category assigned to the position is required within established category timeframes.
• 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.

Qualifications

This is an interdisciplinary position and may be filled by a General Engineer (0801-series) or a Naval Architect (0871-series) depending upon the qualifications of the candidate. Applicants in positions with occupational series other than those listed (0801 and 0871) may apply; however, you must apply directly to the series listed in this vacancy that is most applicable to your qualifications. Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the ND-4 pay band (GS-12 and GS-13 equivalency) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: As a professional engineer applying a wide range of systems engineering or naval architecture principles to develop complex designs and specifications for naval vessels. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management websites: 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 CARDEROCK DIV NS 9500 Macarthur Blvd West Bethesda, MD 20817-5700 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]