You will serve as a Supervisory Nuclear Engineer in the Refueling Technical Support Manager (Code 2370A), Nuclear Refueling Engineering Division (Code 2370), Nuclear Engineering and Planning Department (NEPD) (Code 2300) of NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD.

Duties

You will determine program goals and develop plans for the organization, which reflect higher management goals and objectives. You will determines resource needs and allocates manpower resources in accordance with technical requirements. You will provide technical oversight to subordinate supervisors and holds them accountable for the performance of their units. You will manage and implement technical policy matters and procedures affecting the organization while functioning as a technical subject-matter expert and the primary point of contact handling advanced critical technical issues and problems. You will promote training where noted technical deficiencies are encountered and to meet NAVSEA and Naval Nuclear Reactor Program and department policy requirements. You will set short and long-term program objectives that are realistic as well as responsive to corporate goals and priorities and develop effective approaches for meeting corporate goals. You will communicate corporate goals, relating them to achievements of specific program outcomes and meet corporate goals on time and within budget.allocation. You will provide direct line control of all refueling equipment for multiple core types, including all technical and radiological control requirements for checkout, maintenance, modification, design, testing, repair and storage. You will provide on-site inspection, oversight and technical direction for refueling operations. You will prepare, control, and issue all technical documents associated with refueling equipment within the cognizance of the Refueling Engineering Division including vessel head work for non-refueling overhauls. You will consider a wide range of engineering problems relating to refueling procedures, reactor refueling, control rod mechanism servicing, special nuclear material inspections, equipment, and facilities. You will assist with the development of manning and funding requirements to support the technical support branches of refueling.

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 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 obtain and maintain a U.S. Passport.
• You will be required to wear personal protective equipment such as helmets, gloves, coveralls, glasses, goggles, respirators and safety shoes continuously for the duration of the work shift.
• Work is performed in areas where potentially harmful physical and chemical agents are present (e.g. fumes, dust, heat, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and chemicals). You will be required to participate in medical surveillance programs.
• 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.
• Supervisors in the executive branch have a heightened personal responsibility for advancing government ethics. You will be required to review the 14 General Principles of Ethical Conduct at 5 CFR 2635.101.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also 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: Experience with the concepts, principles and practices of nuclear engineering in order to function as a primary point of contact and subject-matter expert and Manager for shipboard naval reactor plant refueling projects and issues; Experience with various shipbuilding and manufacturing trade skills and practices; Experience utilizing application of detailed and thorough knowledge of highly technical and specialized information involving theory, design, manufacture, and operation of naval reactors plants; Experience making decisions and recommending course of action on highly critical and complex technical management problems which require insight beyond the immediate technical problems and takes into consideration general policies of the Naval Nuclear Reactor Program and associated organizations and activities; Experience managing, planning, organizing, and conducting large numbers of varied work efforts effectively and efficiently, with the process improvement concept in mind; Experience effectively managing and have keen technical oversight over the work of professional and technical personnel in discharging the responsibilities of the projects involved; Experience working well under pressure with a wide variety of people of all levels of responsibility in areas involving development and interpretation of controversial requirements and policy; Experience dealing closely with civilian and military personnel and supervisors at all levels of responsibility; Experience developing innovative approaches and resolutions to problems and situations encountered; Experience expressing complex technical concepts to people at all levels of knowledge and understanding; Experience communicating effectively and professionally both orally and in writing; Experience adjusting planning to meet emergent or changing programs and requirements. 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 General Schedule Qualification Standards (opm.gov) 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 positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess:

A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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.

OR

B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: 1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1 , 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 example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. 2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 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. 3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. 4. Related curriculum -- 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 1 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.)

Contacts

• Address NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD NNSY Portsmouth, VA 23709 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]