You will serve as a Facility Sustainment Engineering (FSE) Program Engineer in the Public Works Business Line of NAV FACILITIES ENGINEERING COMMAND SE. This position at NAVFAC Southeast, advances your career in a challenging and inclusive, yet flexible environment where YOU truly make a difference! Be part of an organization that values YOUR unique skillset, fosters YOUR professional development, and gives YOU the opportunity to grow into tomorrow's leader.

Duties

You will utilize engineering practices, techniques, and equipment to solve problems with commercial/industrial HVAC systems. You will coordinate with Capital Improvement Business Line (CIBL) on HVAC design, acceptance, and commissioning of new HVAC systems for sustainment operations. You will evaluate data to provide management with recommendations on improving HVAC performance and reliability and develop long-range plans for HVAC projects. Review designs and specifications for changes to HVAC infrastructure (i.e., central thermal plant chillers and boilers, waterfront utility plant chillers, etc.) You will provide technical guidance in development of plans for overhaul, repair, and modernization of critical facility equipment including complex engineering designs and calculations. You will ensure installations are utilizing energy efficient components and materials including Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) List and Energy Star products in executing service type calls and project work. You will analyze and de-conflict recommended scheduled maintenance practices for facilities equipment with Navy Policy and guidance for facilities management.

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 a current valid United States driver’s license.
• You will be required to complete training, obtain, and maintain a government credit card for travel and travel-related purchases.
• 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.
• Minimal overtime may be required.
• 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

This position has a selective placement factor that will be used to screen out ineligible candidates. The selective placement factor is: This position requires current registration as a Professional Engineer by any state, the District of Columbia, Guam or Puerto Rico. Note: You must submit a copy of your license with your application. A wall copy without an expiration date will not suffice, a copy with the expiration date is required and should not be expired. In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of Specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing the following duties: 1) Applying expertise in advanced facilities maintenance theories, principles, concepts, standards, and methods sufficient to resolve unique problems, conditions, or issues; 2) Applying understanding of general industry facilities maintenance practices and work practices; how they are accomplished, administered and funded along with knowledge of the NAVFAC structure, its mission and interrelated programs; 3) Demonstrates extensive practical knowledge of the operational, mechanical and electrical characteristics of a wide range of facility systems; 4) Reads and interprets blueprints, technical directives and manufacturer's instructions; 5) Possesses knowledge of principles, practices and procedures used in the design, construction, maintenance, repair and testing of all types of HVAC; 6) Possesses knowledge of safety and operational and instructional regulations; and 7) Accepts differing views, makes rational assessments, and presents alternatives and solutions with tact and conviction when dealing with unusual situations. 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/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: Applicants must possess
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.orgOREvidence 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 NAV FACILITIES ENGINEERING COMMAND SE Naval Air Station Bldg 903 PO Box 30 Jacksonville, FL 32212-0030 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]