You will serve as an INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER in the HULL/STRUCTURAL DIVISION of SUPERVISOR OF SHIPBUILDING BATH.

Duties

You will be responsible for the resolution of technical issues, with emphasis on issues pertaining to welding, structure, naval architecture, shipboard hull equipment, as well as environmental considerations such as shock and airborne noise. You will be directly responsible for assuring that assigned work is accomplished with limited technical advice or guidance from the supervisor. You will function as Lead engineer/Subject Matter Expert for technical areas of responsibility. You will adapt precedent or make significant departures when necessary to provide technically acceptable, risk-based options. You will use best judgment, make technical recommendations with guidelines that are often inadequate or conflicting and deal with more complex or unusual problems. You will interpret and ensure compliance with technical requirements, standards and policies. You will evaluate technical nonconformance to the specifications. You will oversee work assignments for themselves and others in the work unit and support the manager by setting priorities and communicating them up and down the chain of command. You will be a key component of the Command’s Employee Development Program and regularly performs the role of knowledge manager, developing and delivering both structured and unstructured on the job training. You will review shipboard system diagrams, vendor drawings, calculations, test procedures/reports, technical manuals, welding procedures and purchase technical documents to ensure specification requirements are met. You will develop production resolution plans and coordinate actions required to resolve them with minimum production disruption. You will conduct technical meetings, prepare presentations, and provide technical briefings to Project Offices, Ship Design Managers and other Senior Technical Leaders. You will prepare correspondence concerning the design, testing, operation, modification and approval of ship systems and components under Division cognizance. You will conduct, arrange and attend conferences on design problems concerning systems under the cognizance of your Division. You will define, clarify, and document requirements, performing (or ensuring his/her team performs) necessary analysis and tradeoffs, recognizing when interface impacts might occur and take early action to avoid problems. You will maintain a good overall perspective of the system to help interpret and explain motivations for requirements to your team members and thereby gain their acceptance and commitment to objectives. You will maintain a tight liaison with all technical areas of the program, including analysis, design, manufacturing and test.

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.
• This is a bargaining unit position.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain a current Ohio State University Welding Engineering Certificate, or equivalent, within 2 years.
• 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 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.
• You will be required to perform occasional sea duty.

Qualifications

Your resume must 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: As a professional engineer serving as a technical advisor of ship structures and shipboard systems (e.g. design, construction, testing, and evaluation) to provide guidance and resolve problems (e.g. testing issues, changes to ship's specifications, guidance plans, contract drawings, change orders, and field requests) for the construction, modernization, or improvement of ships. Examples include: Conducting technical evaluations and investigations into project and process problems which arise, applying risk management principles as appropriate, and providing technical leadership and decision making with limited advice or guidance. Reviewing, evaluating and employing technical data such as drawings, system diagrams, calculations, technical reports, and technical manuals to ensure compliance with specification requirements and sound engineering principles; adapting precedent or making significant departures when necessary to provide technically acceptable, risk-based options; and using best judgement to make technical recommendations with guidelines that may be inadequate or conflicting. Conducting technical meetings, preparing presentations, and providing technical briefings to Senior Leadership and preparing correspondence concerning technical matters as it relates to hull systems, coatings, damage control, and naval architecture principles. Functioning as a Subject Matter Expert in Welding and Structure related areas of responsibility and providing technical consultation services and support as required to identify and resolve problems that arise during production, in process inspection, test, and trials. Sharing subject matter expertise and process knowledge with others. 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:

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 SUPERVISOR OF SHIPBUILDING BATH 574 Washington Street Bath, ME 04530-1905 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]