You will serve as a Mechanical Engineer (Assistant Type Desk) in the Military Sealift Command (MSC), Engineering Department (N047), Life Cycle Management Division (N0475), PM8 Type Desk (N04758) of MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND.

Duties

You will set and adjust short-term and long-term priorities and reviews work completion schedules for the assigned principal port engineers. You will develop, implement, and administer short and long-range material readiness and maintenance repair goals, objectives, and milestones. You will coordinate approved alterations, improvements, maintenance and repair of assigned vessels; support the acquisition, pre-delivery, post-delivery and warranty process for vessels of the T-EPF Class. You will serve as technical advisor on complex maintenance, repair, approved alteration, material readiness, and life cycle management concerns for assigned vessels. You will evaluate, establish and publish monthly metrics on vessel’s Life Cycle Maintenance performance. Monitor vessel’s industrial availabilities to ensure that established maintenance, repair policies, procedures and budget are being adhered to. You will review cross class analysis of casualties, repeat system or equipment failures and planned and predictive maintenance performance for all assigned ship classes. You will oversee planning, coordinating, organizing, and implementation of life cycle management functions for assigned vessels to ensure they are maintained available as required to meet customer tasking 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.
• 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.
• Travel is a requirement of the position- may exceed 20%.
• Overtime may be required.
• Employment and Financial Interests disclosure is required. Incumbent must complete OGE Form 450.
• Shipyard and shipboard work is a requirement of the position where the incumbent may be required to climb, crawl, and bend to accomplish shipboard inspections in a shipyard environment.

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: Experience with marine mechanical engineering principles and related naval architectural and electrical engineering fields to implement and revise policy affecting ship life cycle management and material readiness. Experience resolving unique or complex ship design, maintenance, alteration, capital improvement, and repair issues. Experience in commercial ship operation and maintenance including repair, overhaul, modification, and construction projects to supervise and coordinate the life cycle management of assigned ship classes. Experience with budget, fiscal policy, acquisition, and administration of financial and material resources. Experience developing studies or investigations and submitting recommendations relating to basic design or various shipboard systems such as propulsion systems, auxiliary systems, and underway replenishment systems. Experience analyzing technical and labor hour proposals for repair work and recommending the appropriate award to be made. 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 all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf (opm.gov) 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

Basic Education Requirements:
A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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.
ORB. Combination of education and experience -- 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: 1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1 , 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 example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. 2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 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. 3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. 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 1 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)

Contacts

• Address MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND 471 East C Street Norfolk, 23511 GB
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]