You will serve as a MANAGER in the Additive Manufacturing Branch (Code 618) of CARDEROCK DIV NS.

Duties

You will manage the additive manufacturing branch overseeing the research and development, testing and evaluation and provide acquisition support or engineering support, for in-service engineering for ships, submarines, and ground vehicles. You will perform organizational and administrative management of the Branch, including tactical and strategic planning; developing resources and capabilities; formulating budgets, managing funds and negotiating with customers. You will perform supervisory duties such as recruiting, executing all forms of personnel actions, monitoring and evaluation performance, establishing priorities, adjusting workloads and advising and counseling subordinates. You will resolve complaints, initiate disciplinary actions, when necessary, develop employees, new hires, promote, and reward branch personnel while complying with Equal Employment Opportunity objectives. You will be responsible for establishing priorities, adjusting workloads, ensuring that products and services are quality and accurately produced. You will supervise a diverse group (Branch) of engineers, technicians, and scientists ensuring projects progress while finding ways to improve production, increase work quality to that production, and maintain that the accuracy requirements are met. You will plan, direct, and manage a wide range of projects for the analysis, design, development, safety testing, evaluation, and maintenance related to the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps additive manufacturing needs. You will review and approve proposals, reports, correspondence, presentations, and documentation on all aspects of additive manufacturing technology. You will be responsible for managing facilities which consists of maintaining a proactive role in laboratory safety, security compliance, cleanliness, material management (e.g. care, custody, or control), sustainment, and strategic planning.

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 secret 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.
• Supervisors in the executive branch have a heightened personal responsibility for advancing government ethics. You will be required to review the 14 General Principles of Ethical Conduct at 5 CFR 2635.101.
• 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

This is an interdisciplinary position and may be filled by an Engineer (0801/0806/0830/0861-series), depending upon the qualifications of the candidate. Applicants in positions with occupational series other than those listed (0801, 0806, 0830, 0861) may apply; however, you must apply directly to the series listed in this vacancy that is most applicable to your qualifications. In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the ND-04 (GS-12/13 Equivalency) grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector: as professional engineer conducting research and development or test and evaluation of additive manufacturing technology (e.g. development of alloys, polymers, ceramics, composites) while leading business processes involving in-service engineering for ships or submarines or ground vehicles. 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:

Professional Engineering Series (08XX):
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 CARDEROCK DIV NS 9500 Macarthur Blvd West Bethesda, MD 20817-5700 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]