You will serve as a Supervisory Mechanical Engineer in the Engineering Management Systems Division (N71), Engineering Department (N7), of MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND.

Duties

You will serve as Program Management and Contracting Officer Representative (COR) providing program management for the development and implementation of engineering services contracts with the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). You will manage engineering services design contracts. You will manage maintenance engineering services contracts. You will manage contract cost and hours and maintain contact with contractors designated contract manager to ensure that contract requirements are met and cost controls are exercised. You will serve as technical consultant to MSC, other government agencies and sponsors on technical matters related to oil analysis, boiler and cooling water analysis. You set and adjust short-term and long-term priorities and prepare work completing schedules for assigned staff. You will carry out equal employment opportunity (EEO) policies and communicate support of these policies to subordinates. You will work daily within an automated office developing products utilizing currently authorized NMCI software (Microsoft Office, Word, PowerPoint, Excel Access and Project), and MSC’s maintenance management software. You will serve as technical consultant to MSC, other government agencies and sponsors on technical matters related to boiler and cooling water analysis, paint and related systems, and fuel oil requirements.

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.
• 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.
• You will be required to complete ethics orientation within three months of appointment and submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450, within 30 days of appointment

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 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 and master of advanced techniques of marine engineering, naval architecture, life cycle management, condition monitoring systems and implementation, and maintenance management that enables the incumbent to serve as an expert in the area of maintenance, analysis, testing and condition monitoring with specialized knowledge of commercial ship operations, reduced manning, commercial regulatory body requirements, and commercial marine maintenance standards and procedures. Expert experience and knowledge of one or more of the following: shipboard fuels, fleet requirements, worldwide ports and procurement, delivery and accounting practices with a detailed understanding of products and vendors sufficient to recommend and accomplish procurement of fuel supplies for MSC ships; shipboard chemical treatment and equipment and maintenance management in both the commercial and military environment; the effective implementation of lubricant analysis as part of a vessel's preventative and predictive maintenance program including knowledge regarding the principles and best practices for the selection, handling and storage of marine lubricants in a marine mechanical environment; the concepts, principles, and practices of all aspects of marine coatings and corrosion control principles and related marine fields to provide technical expertise in ship coatings and corrosion control system design, maintenance and repair. Experience and comprehensive knowledge and experience with the concepts and processes with engineering and maintenance support contract development, contract management regulations, request for proposals, Circular of Requirements, market surveys, contract specifications and source selection requirements. Experience and ability to analyze and resolve complex operation and life cycle cost and maintainability problems, obtained through hands-on operation and maintenance of ship engineering systems. 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.

Contacts

• Address MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND 471 East C Street Norfolk, 23511 GB
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]