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Duties

You will regularly inspect electrical utility distribution systems and perform condition assessments to ensure proper system functionality. You will identify deficiencies and submit work request to correct the identified deficiencies. You will coordinate with the Utilities and Energy Management Branch Head to determine the best course of action for work request completion. You will respond to after-hours emergency calls to provide technical support for electrical utility distribution system related issues.

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.
• 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). You must be certified as a Career Field Facilities Engineering Level I. If not certified, you must achieve certification within 24 months of appointment.
• 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

This position has a selective placement factor that will be used to screen out ineligible candidates. The selective placement factor is: Professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html. FOR GS-11 In addition to the basic education requirements, 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: 1) Reviewing electrical utility distribution switching order and corresponding technical drawing to verify their accuracy; 2) Knowledge of trade practices utilized in maintaining and repairing electrical distribution systems; and 3) Ability to apply electrical engineering knowledge to develop scopes of work and cost estimates while ensuring all navy codes, building codes and safety regulations are applied; 4) Experience leading root cause analysis and system failure investigations for the development of recommended process improvements; 5) Experience with geographic information systems (GIS) and computer aided design software systems.; 6) Familiarity of other engineering disciplines (i.e. mechanical, civil, architectural and how they relate to electrical engineering. GS-9 position: Applicants that do not meet the specialized experience as described above may qualify with education or a combination of experience and education, as follows: 2 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degree in Engineering or master's or equivalent graduate degree. 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=GS-PROF 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. Physical Demand: The majority of work may be performed sitting. Occasional required standing on hard surfaces for extended periods. Some bending and stooping is required. Occasionally required to perform work by stooping, bending, and reaching while in cramped and uncomfortable positions and by walking, kneeling, crouching, and crawling. Must be able to climb ladders and scaffolds to perform work at various heights. Must have normal vision or corrective lenses. Work Environment: Some work is performed outside and may require exposure to prevailing weather conditions. A majority of the work is performed indoors where the employee works under the pressure of competing priorities and deadlines. Work may also be performed in various surroundings including waterfront, industrial, residential and construction work sites. Exposed to normal hazards associated with construction work, industrial operations and prevailing weather conditions. Required to wear appropriate personal protective equipment. Work hours are subject to change. Subject callback after normal working hours or extended workdays for emergency work.

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 NAVFAC ENGINEERING CMD MID-ATLANTIC 9324 Virginia Ave Norfolk, VA 23511 US
• Name: Michelle Wintle-McMillan
• Phone: (207) 438-2893
• Email: [email protected]