You will serve as a Director of Radiological Emergency Planning for Commander Submarine Squadron Four (COMSUBRON 4), in the Emergency Planning section of CDR SUBMARINE SQUADRON FOUR.

Duties

You will be responsible to the Commodore for the preparation of radiological emergency plans. You will be responsible to assure protection of naval personnel and the general public in the event of a radiological emergency or all hazard events (such as major fire or natural disaster) You will be responsible for the operation of COMSUBRON 4 Emergency Control Center including conducting training required to effectively man and operate the center. You will be responsible to develop plans and issue specific detailed casualty procedures to deal with a radiological or reactor accident emergency or all hazard events associated with naval nuclear reactor plant operations should they occur. You will be responsible to provide direction to deal with a radiological or reactor accident emergency or all hazard events associated with naval nuclear reactor plant operations should they occur. You will be responsible to coordinate the COMSUBRON 4 response to an actual or potential all hazard event, nuclear reactor plant or other radiological emergency. You will be responsible for designing and coordinating the engineering development and construction of, and for the maintenance and upgrading of, emergency support facilities. You will be responsible to prepare technical procedures for radiological monitoring. You will be responsible to develop annual and supplemental emergency planning budgets and quarterly budget status reports. You will be responsible to coordinate the COMSUBRON 4 response to an actual or potential emergency with the federal, state, and local government agencies. You will be responsible to perform inventories and maintenance of procedures and equipment for the Groton Radiological Assistance Team (RAT).

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 a current valid United States driver’s license.
• 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.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 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 and mastery of and expert knowledge to lead in the development and implementation of plans and policies for reactor/ radiological emergencies or all hazard events like major fires and natural disasters. Experience and mastery knowledge of and experience with the principles, theories, and techniques of nuclear engineering, nuclear reactor plant design, operations, materials, testing, and related fields of engineering. Experience and expert ability to serve as a recognized consultant and expert on radiological emergency and all-hazard events planning as it applies to NNPP. Experience and expert knowledge of individual mobilization, overseas deployment, and ship movement requirements sufficient to support policy development and evaluation in relation to supporting NNPP. Experience and expert knowledge of individual mobilization, overseas deployment, and ship movement requirements sufficient to support Fleet Commander Fly-Away Teams. Experience and expert knowledge of individual mobilization, overseas deployment, and ship movement requirements sufficient to support visiting ships from other NNPP organizations. all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf (opm.gov) 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 CDR SUBMARINE SQUADRON FOUR Naval Submarine Base New London Groton, CT 06349 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]