You will serve as a Supervisory Aerospace Engineer in the Commanding Office, FST Site Lead, FST Engineering Division of FLEET READINESS CENTER SOUTHWEST.

Duties

You will serve as a technical lead and performs extensive and varied combinations of duties associated with the most complex systems. You will lead, plan, coordinate, and conduct advanced aerospace engineering work that requires planning and developing in several phases involving the development or origination of modified/new technical approach/solutions. You will ensure the Team's strategic plan, mission, vision and values are communicated to the team and integrated into the team's strategies, goals objectives, work plan and work products and services. You will train or arrange for training of team members in methods and techniques of team to accomplish tasks or projects. You will assign and review work on a daily basis, assuring that production and accuracy requirements are met, recommend performance standards and ratings and approving leave. You will carry out EEO policies and procedures, informing subordinates of total support thereof.

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.
• 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 must obtain and maintain required levels of certification and/or license or training as a condition of employment.
• Monitors and ensures compliance of subordinate staff certification and license requirements as a condition of employment.

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 as a Professional Engineer. Examples of specialized experience include: 1) Supervise, manage, and technically direct aerospace engineering processes and resources at North Island; 2) Exercises directive authority as required to ensure the accomplishment of the supervisory responsibilities and duties; 3) Responsible for the continuity, efficiency and effectiveness of the overall operational efforts of the area under their supervision and for ensuring the team is sustained with fully trained and certified personnel that satisfy operational requirements; 4) Plans, leads, coordinates and conducts advanced aerospace engineering work of such breadth that it requires planning and developing in several phases, each involving the development or origination of modified or new technical approach/solutions because issues/data are often controversial or unknown. The incumbent serves as a technical lead and performs extensive and varied combinations of duties associated with the most complex systems; 5) Demonstrates professional engineering knowledge of the F/A-18A-F and EA-18G aircraft in theories, concepts, principles, standards, and methods; 6) Provides guidance in the form of training, professional development, and mentorship by working, reviewing, and possessing the necessary agency empowerment to directly release work products; 7) Effectively communicates with Navy uniformed and civilian leadership regarding both broad engineering status/metrics as well as specific technical information. 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:

A transcript must be submitted with your application if qualifying using education OR the position has an education requirement. See Required Documents for additional information.

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 FLEET READINESS CENTER SOUTHWEST Fleet Readiness Center Southwest PO Box 347058 San Diego, CA 92135-7058 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]