You will serve as a GENERAL ENGINEER in the TEST & OPERATIONS DIVISION, FLIGHT TEST INSTRUMENTATION BRANCH of NAV ORD TEST UNIT.

Duties

You will be responsible for assuring the readiness of range and program-owned flight test instrumentation systems for missiles and Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) flight test programs. You will provide technical direction, monitoring and evaluating of the planning, design, modification and operation of the Range instrumentation systems at the Eastern Range (ER) and Pacific Range (PR). You will review and validate various missile tracking and instrumentation systems, support tests and assess equipment assets. You will analyze proposed follow-on missile programs to determine the probable impact of new/improved flight test instrumentation and data collection upon present and planned missile flight instrumentation. You will provide analysis of day-to-day program needs and financial oversight to determine instrumentation and/or administrative support deficiencies, if any, and to initiate corrective action where necessary. You will prepare basic criteria and establish completion schedules for missile flight test instrumentation and assign projects, via official correspondence, to the ER and PR for the preparation and implementation of changes affecting Range systems. You will provide technical engineering services on a wide variety of unique instrumentation, communication, and data recording systems. You will serve as a consultant and assist various military agencies and civilian contractors during the preparation of detailed plans and specifications for specialized missile instrumentation and support equipment. You will participate in final reviews of completed plans and specifications to insure functional adequacy, technical feasibility, conformance with criteria, economy, completeness, clarity and adherence with required format. You will establish priorities and determines methods of accomplishing projects based upon program requirements, funding limitations, labor relations and other considerations. You will participate in all phases of project implementation to ensure compliance with specifications, satisfactory rate of progress and report on progress of the project. You will anticipate possible problem areas and initiates corrective action to prevent any delay in technical implementation or equipment readiness from causing a delay in the critical missile test schedule. You will attend technical meetings in connection with instrumentation requirements, development and design. You will travel to various range sites to observe testing/preparations for and operations of flight test instrumentation systems during missile flight test missions.

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.
• Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or fail the test. You will be subject to random testing.
• 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 ethics orientation within three months of appointment and submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450, within 30 days of appointment.

Qualifications

In addition to the basic education requirement, your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or NH-02 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 experience with Missile Systems including their development, test, evaluation, production or deployment criteria. Experience with data collection instrumentation to include telemetry, radar, communication, or optical systems. 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.

YOU MUST submit with your application official or unofficial transcripts or a list of courses, grades earned, completion dates, and quarter and semester hours earned issued from your school or you will be rated ineligible.

Contacts

• Address NAV ORD TEST UNIT PO Box 1628 Cape Canaveral, FL 32920 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]