You will serve as a NUCLEAR ENGINEER in the Radiological Emergency Planning Division ((Support Branch Code 105.61), Radiological Emergency Planning Division (Code 105.6), Manager Radiological Controls Support (Code 105.1S), Radiological Control Office (Code 105) of NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD.

Duties

You will identify possible emergency situations, develop plans, issue specific detailed casualty procedures, and provide technical direction to deal with consequences of radiological emergencies associated with naval nuclear plant operations. You will coordinate the Shipyard’s response to emergencies with various government agencies to insure that shipyard response plans and plans from these agencies, provide complete and integrated coverage of emergency response actions. You will oversee the training and certification of all emergency response personnel under your assigned area of cognizance and keep abreast of changes to procedures and requirements and incorporates them into training material. You will provide data and assist in planning major emergency drill scenarios to evaluate the Shipyard’s level of preparedness. You will assist senior management in development of the report for the assessment of the drill response. You will modify or develop new procedures based on the assessment of the drill response and disseminate to your assigned area of cognizance.

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 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.
• Work is performed in areas where potentially harmful physical and chemical agents are present (e.g. fumes, dust, heat, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and chemicals). You will be required to participate in medical surveillance programs.
• 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 wear personal protective equipment such as helmets, gloves, coveralls, glasses, goggles, respirators and safety shoes continuously for the duration of the work shift.

Qualifications

GS-12 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. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience conducting projects to design, develop, analyze, and evaluate new processes, systems or techniques to advance procedures that affect radiological emergency operations, and/or facilities at naval shipyards performing nuclear work. Experience identifying possible emergency situations, develop plans, issue specific detailed casualty procedures, and provide technical direction to deal with anticipated consequences of, and recover from radiological emergencies or incidents associated with naval nuclear plant operations, should they occur. Experience applying concepts, principles, theories, techniques, and practices of nuclear engineering, nuclear reactor plant design, operations, materials, and related fields of engineering. Experience reviewing technical procedures and work practices employed in radiological emergency responses in order to adjust training methods and materials to be in consonance with actual response operations. GS-11 Your resume must also 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: Experience conducting projects to design, develop, analyze, and evaluate new processes, systems or techniques to advance procedures that affect radiological emergency operations, and/or facilities at naval shipyards performing nuclear work. Experience applying concepts, principles, theories, techniques, and practices of nuclear engineering, nuclear reactor plant design, operations, materials, and related fields of engineering. Experience reviewing technical procedures and work practices employed in radiological emergency responses in order to adjust training methods and materials to be in consonance with actual response operations. Experience working with people from various backgrounds and all organizational levels as it is required to plan improvements for facilities, instrumentation and procedures. 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.

AND

GS-11
3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree.
OR
A combination of experience and graduate education as described above that equates to one year of experience.

Contacts

• Address NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD NNSY Portsmouth, VA 23709 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]