You will serve as a MECHANICAL ENGINEER in the Utilities and Energy Management Branch of Public Works Department Great Lakes, NAVFAC ENGINEERING CMD MID-ATLANTIC.

Duties

You will coordinate across organizational lines within the PWD Great Lakes AOR and interface with personnel from NAVFAC Mid-Atlantic, the Installation commands, and other Navy customers. You will provide administrative and technical direction for the work, coordinating all aspects of engineering work from project scope development through work completion. You will make decisions to approve or disapprove based on knowledge of contract requirement and technical review determinations. You will analyze project costs in accordance with project objectives. You will advise leadership on engineering, technical, design, and operational requirements. You will conduct risk analysis of engineering systems to identify problems and recommend solutions.

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.
• You will be required to wear personal protective equipment such as helmets, gloves, coveralls, glasses, goggles, respirators and safety shoes continuously for the duration of the work shift.
• 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 complete training, obtain, and maintain a government credit card for travel and travel-related purchases.

Qualifications

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 performing the following duties: 1) Possesses knowledge of mechanical utility systems to include steam and hot water production, steam and hot water distribution, combustion (gas) turbines, and natural gas distribution; thermal and natural gas utility safety, operations, environmental compliance, maintenance practices, repair methods, troubleshooting, testing and terminology to identify components and their interrelations; 2) Uses knowledge of utility Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems to include distributed control systems for combustion control and burner management; 3) Uses sophisticated indicating and recording instruments/devices; 4) Possesses knowledge of engineering principles, concepts, theory and extensive specialized practical and technical knowledge as applied to thermal and natural gas utility systems.; thermal and natural gas utility safety standards and procedures to develop and evaluate safety plans, safety policy and safety methods; environmental compliance requirements relating mainly to air permitting and fuel management; 5) Uses knowledge of construction principles and practices such as those published in the American National Standards and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards in order to ascertain and develop appropriate protection/safety requirements and equipment and material selection; 6) Possesses knowledge of industry recognized codes and standard practices including the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler, Pressure Vessel Codes and National Board Inspection Code for Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors, American National Standards Institute (ANSI) / National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) / National Fuel Gas (NFG) Codes, and DoD United Facilities Codes (UFC); 7) Develops and uses computer databases, spreadsheets, word processing, and computer aided drafting/computer aided design (CAD) systems, and reads engineering drawings and Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) data. Knowledge of complex math to calculate unknown variables from predetermined or measured values; 8) Develops, evaluates and analyzes policy, procedures and requirements to operate, maintain, plan and alter thermal and natural gas utility systems; and 9) Possesses a thorough knowledge of the planning and scheduling techniques associated with the maintenance and repair of thermal and natural gas utility systems. NOTE: THIS INFORMATION MUST BE SUPPORTED IN YOUR RESUME TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE POSITION 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 NAVFAC ENGINEERING CMD MID-ATLANTIC 9324 Virginia Ave Norfolk, VA 23511 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]