You will serve as a Metrology Mechanical Engineer in the Navy Primary Standards Laboratory (NPSL) of FLEET READINESS CENTER SOUTHWEST. This Job Opportunity Announcement is using an additional online assessment tool to evaluate applicants. Please review the HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED, HOW TO APPLY, and WHAT TO EXPECT NEXT sections below for instructions. Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees.

Duties

You will plan and conduct state-of-the-art engineering investigations and analysis to support calibration, repair, modification, operation, maintenance, and procurement to improve reliability and maintainability of assigned calibration standards. You will define metrology requirements and develop calibration procedures for complex mechanical test and measurement systems used Navy wide. You will evaluate and prescribe corrective actions for calibration standard deficiencies reported through appropriate deficiency reporting systems to improve accuracy, reliability, maintainability, interchangeability, safety, and economy. You will create Health risk assessments of a Primary Measurement System (PMS). You will review and implement calibration standards management including submissions of standards to a National Metrology Institute (NMI). You will document all relevant material with the appropriate method (e.g. calibration procedure, history folder, meter card, etc.). You will create, provide expert guidance, direct, and implement unique and complex metrology projects for the modification or improvement of state-of-the art mechanical measurement systems in support of fleet-wide calibration program requirements. You will enable use of software, templates, and programs related to the PMS and create, modify, troubleshoot, or update the applications as needed. You will perform engineering investigation, modernization, and statistical analysis and process control on Primary Measurement System, ensuring the uncertainties are technically adequate and traceable for calibrating customers' user requirements.

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.
• 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.

Qualifications

For the GS-11 Grade Level:Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 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) Performing statistical methods and metrology concepts related to measurement sciences; 2) Demonstrating knowledge in operating precision instruments, equipment, and/or electro-mechanical devices; 3) Assisting with maintenance and repair actions related to the health of a Primary Measuring System (PMS) such as revising or updating procedures, data reduction, monitoring control charts, documenting history, estimating and processing repair actions, and submitting acquisition documentation; 4) Reading and interpreting schematics, drawings, blue prints, and source code. For the GS-12 Grade Level:Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of 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. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Performing statistical methods and metrology concepts such as standard deviation, distributions, possibility of false rejection or acceptance, traceability and uncertainty calculations related to measurement sciences; 2) Utilizing precision instruments, equipment, and/or electro-mechanical devices; 3) Conducting maintenance and repair actions related to the health of a Primary Measuring System (PMS) such as revising or updating procedures, data reduction, monitoring control charts, documenting history, estimating and processing repair actions, and submitting acquisition documentation; 4) Reading and interpreting schematics, drawings, blue prints, and source code. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: 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. Please NOTE: Additional vacancies may be filled.by this announcement.

Education

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess:

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 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]