Job opening: MECHANICAL ENGINEER
Salary: $83 854 - 109 011 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Nov 01 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
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Duties
You will serve as an expert consultant and furnish technical advice to field personnel concerning the intent and application of detail specification requirements pertaining to submarine auxiliary machinery.
You will conduct surveillance of Contractor engineering practices to the extent necessary to demonstrate that the Contractor is meeting contract and specification requirements.
You will review engineering studies, design and technical aspects of proposals (including reasonableness of engineering equivalency, man-hours and scope of work involved when requested by the Contracting Officer).
You will evaluate new designs and systems and determine their acceptability and/or compliance with the intent of the specifications.
You will confer with engineering personnel at equipment manufacturers, design agents, HIINC, naval shipyards and private shipyards to establish acceptable design and construction procedures.
You will evaluate, monitor and report on Contractor engineering efforts in accordance with contract terms.
You will review scientific data and evidence presented by major companies (subcontractors) through prime contractors such as HIINC in order to establish suitability of materials/methods/design for Marine and Naval Combatant Ships.
You will review and evaluate the technical adequacy of logistics support, maintenance, and modification programs accomplished by the contractor.
You will perform ship checks and similar functions and facilitate resolution of technical programs in cognitive systems/equipment.
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 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.
- You will be required to successfully complete a pre-appointment physical examination.
- This is a bargaining unit position.
Qualifications
Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of professional specialized experience at or equivalent to the (GS-11) grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector "As a professional mechanical engineer providing guidance on intent or application of detail specification or military specification requirements pertaining to submarine auxiliary machinery (e.g.: steering and diving, weapons handling, hydraulics, and associated support systems).
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/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf
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https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=Group-Standards
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.
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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
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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.
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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)
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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 SUPSHIP
4101 Washington Avenue Bldg 2
Newport News, VA 23607-2787
US
- Name: Lisa Sledge
- Phone: (757) 380-7835
- Email: [email protected]
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