You will serve as a ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN in the TEST DIVISION of the ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT of SUPSHIP.

Duties

You will responsible for maintaining surveillance, reviewing, evaluating, and approving non-nuclear testing aboard nuclear powered submarines and aircraft carriers undergoing construction and repair. You will review and ensure the proper annotation, and concur in all test procedures which could affect ship conditions. You will ensure that preparation for and the conduct of the propulsion and Hull, Mechanical and Electrical test programs meet all contractual, technical and safety requirements. You will attend critiques to determine root cause and corrective action when a malfunction occurs involving propulsion plant or other hull, mechanical and electrical equipment or system. You will maintain personal knowledge of the actual day-to-day progress and the conditions of the steam and electric plant and non-propulsion plant system conditions, operations and tests. You will ensure that individual systems or groups of systems are certified complete and ready for test and that completion of all prerequisites and test preparation items will support testing prior to scheduling a test. You will conduct onboard surveillance of testing and reviewing of test data and concur in the technical evaluation of testing problems of the propulsion plant and hull, mechanical and electrical systems. You will monitor shipyard and ship compliance with applicable approved safety and operating instructions and procedures to ensure safe and proper operation of all propulsion and hull, mechanical and electrical systems and components. You will evaluate material condition deficiencies and incomplete testing and determine what impact they may have on major ship key events. You will review contractor work control documentation to ensure requisite testing is performed, based on the scope of work performed, to support system/component/key event certification.

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 successfully complete a pre-appointment physical examination.
• 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 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 grade level (GS-11) or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector providing technical engineering support to resolve Hull, Mechanical, and Electrical (HM&E) Systems problems for the safety and compliance of ship component or ship system testing. 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 https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/engineering-technical-series-0802/ 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

Contacts

• Address SUPSHIP 4101 Washington Avenue Bldg 2 Newport News, VA 23607-2787 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]