You will serve as the Principal for Ship Survivability Protection and Maritime Lethality for The Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD), Navy's center of excellence for ships and ship systems. The work performed covers the full spectrum of research and development, acquisition support, test and evaluation, in-service engineering and fleet support for the Navy's ships, submarines, military watercraft, unmanned vehicles, and weaponeers.

Duties

You will serve as the recognize leader and technical expert in the area of ship and submarine vulnerability, protection and maritime lethality. You will provide oversight and coordination of Division, Warfare Centers, NAVSEA, and Department of the Navy (DoN) initiatives. You will coordinate initiatives related to United States ship vulnerability, vulnerability reduction, ship protection technologies, battle damage assessment and recoverability (BDAR), and maritime target lethality. You will serve as the primary technical interface with ship survivability/vulnerability and weapons lethality communities across the Naval Research and Development Establishment (NRDE), including all levels of the DoN, DoD, and federal government. You will provide technical and policy guidance to Warfare Center, NAVSEA, NRDE and DoN leadership. You will plan, direct, and oversee complex and collaborative research and development initiatives and develop analytical tools to predict ship vulnerability and maritime lethality/weaponeering tools. You will oversee recoverability modeling and simulation (MS) in support of Live Fire Test and Evaluation (LFTE) and BDAR assessments and advocate for ship vulnerability/protection and maritime lethality RDE and maintenance of analytical tools. You will conduct research and development projects, with accompanying programmatic expertise and oversight that advance the state-of-the art for analytical tools to predict ship survivability/vulnerability and maritime lethality/weaponeering tools. You will develop, promote, coordinate, council and perform research and development planning and execution across the Division, NAVSEA, DoN, DoD and NRDE.

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 complete ethics orientation within three months of appointment and submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-278e, within 30 days of appointment.
• 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.
• Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or fail the test. You will be subject to random testing.
• 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.

Qualifications

The applicant is to provide a separate narrative statement which describes fully, but concisely, how his/her experience supports each of the following Mandatory Technical Qualifications. Each technical qualification narrative should not exceed 2 pages. Failure to address these specific qualifications in a separate narrative statement will eliminate you from consideration: 1. A thorough understanding of the development of protection systems, vulnerability and survivability assessments, and hardening of ships and submarines. 2. Demonstrated ability to conceive, propose, plan, and implement multi-disciplinary and extremely complex, and far-reaching science, technology, and engineering efforts around ship survivability, protection systems, and maritime lethality. 3. Demonstrated ability to execute and supervise broad-based, multi-disciplinary research with a focus on modeling and simulation, analytical tool and process development, and experimental testing to enhance ship survivability and recoverability, and maritime lethality. 4. Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership, mentoring, and career management to accelerate knowledge transfer and professional growth and quickly train new scientists and engineers on the specialized topics such as ship survivability, weapons effects, and maritime lethality. 5. Demonstrated ability to communicate both orally and in writing, with strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, to formulate and disseminate technology priorities and recommendations to a broad audience of internal and external stakeholders. 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.

Education

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:

For 08XX Professional Engineering Series:
A. Degree: Engineering. Successful completion of a bachelor's or higher engineering degree from an accredited college or university. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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.
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B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:
(I) Professional registration or licensure -- 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 example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions; or
(II) Written Test -- 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; or
(III) Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A; or
(IV) Related curriculum -- 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 1 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.)

An advanced degree of Master's or Ph.D. in one of the educational fields listed above is highly desirable.

Contacts

• Address CARDEROCK DIV NS 9500 Macarthur Blvd West Bethesda, MD 20817-5700 US
• Name: Dept of the Navy Executive Hiring
• Email: usn.seattle-wa.ochrsvdopscenwa.mbx.don-executive-hiring@us.navy.mil