This position is located in the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, Thirteenth Coast Guard District, Sector Puget Sound, Prevention Department, Inspection Division in Seattle, Washington.

Duties

This position serves as a Fishing Vessel Safety Examiner/Marine Inspector in a Coast Guard Sector Office examining commercial fishing industry vessels for compliance with the Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Safety Act (CFIVSA) 1988, and the Alternate Compliance Safety Agreement (ACSA) within the assigned geographic location. The fishing vessel safety program is administered nationwide for a fishing industry, which employs more than 300,000 fishermen on over 60,000 vessels.

Requirements

• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• The position requires a valid state driver's license.
• Applicant is required to meet the physical requirements of the position.
• A one-year probationary period may be required.

Qualifications

You qualify for the GS-12 grade level if you possess one year of specialized experience at the GS-11 grade level. Examples of specialized experience include the following: Providing technical guidance on commercial fishing vessel issues. Working with Federal, state, local agencies and the fishing industry to promote commercial fishing industry safety. Planning, scheduling, and conducting on site examinations of commercial fishing industry vessels for compliance with all applicable federal regulations. Managing the processing of all marine violation cases for the fishing vessels. Evaluating the compliance of foreign vessel safety management systems with international Safety Management Codes. Evaluating the compliance of Coast Guard inspected vessels with domestic and foreign vessel inspection standards for vessel navigation, vessel safety, vessel manning and pollution prevention. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.  National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. The Office of Personnel management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule, C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

Education

This position does not have a positive education requirement. If you are including education on your resume, report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. See Required Documents section for detail.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. See Recognition of Foreign Qualifications click here

Contacts

• Address United States Coast Guard 2703 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave SE STOP 7120 Washington, District of Columbia 20593-7120 United States
• Name: USCG Applicant Support
• Phone: 866-656-6830
• Email: [email protected]