This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies in the Naval Acquisition Development Program (NADP) with Naval Sea Systems Command. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.

Duties

You will work collaboratively with engineering and program office personnel supporting a range of Navy ship and/or submarine programs as a member of a cost estimating team. You will be perform extensive data analytics on cost, technical/engineering, economic, and programmatic data. You will be convert quantitative and qualitative data into defendable cost estimates to include data collection and normalization, research, statistical analysis, in the ultimate development of estimating methodologies and cost estimates. You will develop, document, and present life cycle cost estimates, apply mathematical modeling techniques such as regression analysis, and evaluate cost estimates prepared by others.

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 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.
• You will be required to sign a mobility agreement to accept relocation to other geographic locations if required by the employer.
• You will be required to complete training, obtain, and maintain a government credit card for travel and travel-related purchases.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station.

Qualifications

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirement per the individual, single agency qualification standard for Department of Defense positions: Applicants must possess, or be in possession of before hiring date, a bachelor's degree from an accredited educational institution authorized to grant baccalaureate degrees. For GS-09: In addition to the Basic Education Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-07 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Providing support to higher graded professionals by reviewing architect, engineer, or contractor drawings for adherence to contract specifications; 2) Organizing people, operating units, and production work flow; 3) Utilizing conventional methods to perform routing evaluation and prediction assignments concerning resources (e.g., employees, materials, equipment) needed to economically produce a product or render a service; 4) Preparing technical correspondence to manufacturers or facility managers by gathering data related to organization structuring, work flow, safety engineering, work measurement, facilities planning, and layout; and 5) Determining how to install an efficient industrial engineering system after considering materials handling, production planning and control, quality control, statistics, and cost controls. NOTE: Your resume must support this information in order to be considered for this position. For GS-07: In addition to the Basic Education Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-05 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Collecting data for planning, designing, analyzing, improving, or installing integrated systems of employees, materials, and equipment; 2) Providing support to higher graded professionals by analyzing mechanized materials handling equipment for loading, unloading, moving, sorting, processing, packing and storing items; 3) Applying standard engineering practices, methods, and techniques to perform conventional engineering work; 4) Assisting higher graded professionals by preparing layouts from specific instructions, notes, or sketches dealing with established work areas; and 5) Assisting higher graded professionals by developing criteria to support management by identifying the need for changes in procedures. NOTE: Your resume must support this information in order to be considered for this position. https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=GS-PROF, Industrial Engineering Series 0896 (opm.gov) AND https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800/. 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 for the 0896 Engineering Series:

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.


Additional Experience and Training Provisions for Graduates of Engineering Programs:
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.

Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.
Superior Academic Achievement (SAA) through the following method (only one). No more than 10% of academic credit can be based on pass/fail or similar non-traditional grading systems.
· 2.95 GPA overall or higher or in last 2 years (= or less than 10% Pass/Fail)
· 3.45 GPA or higher in major or in last 2 years in major (= or less than 10% Pass/Fail)
· Upper 1/3 ranking in graduating class (You must submit proof with your application)
· National Scholastic Honor Society. Membership in a freshman honor society cannot be used to meet the requirements of this provision. (You must submit proof with your application)

DEGREE AUDITS ARE NOT AN ACCEPTABLE SUBSTITUTE FOR TRANSCRIPTS. IF SELECTED, AN OFFICIAL/SEALED TRANSCRIPT SENT DIRECTLY TO THE HIRING AGENCY FROM THE UNIVERSITY WILL BE REQUIRED PRIOR TO AN APPOINTMENT DATE BEING ESTABLISHED.

GS-09:
Successful completion of two full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degree;
or
A combination of specialized experience at the GS-07 level and graduate education as described above that equates to one year of experience:
or
A combination of superior academic achievement and 1 year of appropriate professional experience is qualifying at GS-9

GS-07:
Superior academic achievement at the baccalaureate level in an engineering program is qualifying for GS-7.

Contacts

• Address CMS MECHANICSBURG Naval Support Activity Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 US
• Name: Tracey Rawlings
• Email: [email protected]