You will serve as an Engineering Technician in the Facilities and Plan Maintenance Division, Facility and Infrastructure Management Department of FLTREADCEN SOUTHEAST. This announcement uses the Certain Personnel of the DoD direct hire authority to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

Duties

You will investigate and validate predictive maintenance criteria gathered from a variety of complex industrial plant equipment. You will provide engineering assistance on issues concerning the predictive maintenance program and provide instruction to maintenance mechanics involved in repairs, installation, or testing of critical plant equipment. You will formulate and present findings, briefings, project papers, status reports, and correspondence to senior engineers. You will determine "fault condition" by performing in-depth analysis to determine the source of failure to the component level.

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
• 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 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 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.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Utilizing conventional technical engineering concepts, principles, and practices associated with predicting the failure of industrial plant equipment; 2) Conducting engineering investigations and performing developmental work related to established or novel production materials, processes, and techniques to upgrade or improve products; 3) Reading, understanding, and interpreting blueprints, engineering drawings or sketches, and various technical reference manuals related to industrial plant equipment; and 4) Testing materials to identify or establish conformance to specification requirements for maintenance on production equipment. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: Engineering Technical Series 0802 (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.

Contacts

• Address FLTREADCEN SOUTHEAST Fleet Readiness Center Southeast Building 101 Jacksonville, FL 32212 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]