You will serve as a Environmental Restoration Director for Environmental Restoration Training within the Environmental Division of NAVAL SCHOOL CEC OFFICERS. This is an interdisciplinary position, you may qualify under any of the 3 series listed; 0401 - General Natural Resources Management And Biological Sciences, 0819 - Environmental Engineering, or 1301 - General Physical Science

Duties

You will provide technical expertise and oversight to the Navy Environmental Readiness Training Program (NERTP) in all aspects of Environmental Restoration training. You will plan, coordinate, and interface directly with Naval Facilities Engineering Command Headquarters, Environmental Restoration Division at Echelon 2 and 3 levels on regular basis to determine annual training needs. You will identify environmental training needs, analysis of the training vehicle for cost-effectively meeting the training need, make recommendations to higher authority, develop cost estimates, develop/manage training curricula. You will determine training objectives, monitor and evaluate to ensure that overall course objectives are met by develop and apply of lesson plans, student guides and other training materials. You will execute controls and procedures necessary to protect or improve air, land, and water resources and prevent water, soil, or atmospheric contamination

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.
• Frequent travel (up to 20% of the time) is necessary. Travel is required to coordinate and conduct course offerings and to attend various sponsor, customer and technical meetings and symposiums. This position may require some overtime.
• Lifting heavy boxes (up to 50 pounds) and setting up chairs, table, audio-visual equipment and other classroom material is required occasionally in support of training.
• The incumbent will be required to attend within three months of assignment Navy Instructor Training Course (NITC), or show proof of having attended or equivalent in accordance with CENSEABEESFACENGINST 1540.2 (series).
• The incumbent shall be formally evaluated and certified as an instructor for assigned courses/topics as directed by CENSEABEESFACENGINST 1540.2 (series) and to meet approved Instructor Certification Plan.
• Instructors will maintain certification in all assigned course(s)/topics.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 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) Utilizing knowledge of engineering and scientific concepts, principles and technologies to manage environmental restoration projects including human health and ecological risk assessments; 2) Analyzing environmental contamination investigations and clean-up (remediation) plans to ensure compliance with DOD regulations, policies and procedures; 3) Planning, coordinating, and executing environmental projects within established schedules and budgets; and 4) Presenting technical information and environmental requirements to personnel, both orally and in writing, in a variety of settings including classroom, distance learning, and conferences. 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 https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0400/general-natural-resources-management-and-biological-sciences-series-0401/ https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/environmental-engineering-series-0819/ https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1300/general-physical-science-series-1301/ 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 positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual. Applicants must possess education below for each series they have applied for:


BIOLOGIC SCIENTIST (0401) - Applicants must possess a degree in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or a related discipline appropriate to this position OR have a combination of education and experience in one of the above majors that includes at least 24 semester hours in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or a discipline related to this position plus appropriate experience or additional education.

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER (0819) - Applicants must possess a bachelor's degree (or higher) in engineering. 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 have a combination of college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: (I) Professional registration or licensure: 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; or (2) Written Test: 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; or (3) Specified academic courses: 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 (4) Related curriculum: 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.

PHYSICAL SCIENTIST (1301) - Applicants must a bachelor's degree or higher in physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics OR have a combination of education and experience with education equivalent to one of the majors shown above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Contacts

• Address NAVAL SCHOOL CEC OFFICERS Naval School CEC Officers CECOS Port Hueneme, CA 93041 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]