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Duties

You will serve as a Mechanical Engineer in the Engineering Department, Electronics Engineering Division of the Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair (SUPSHIP), Gulf Coast. You will provide technical expertise, support and coordination of the efforts of other disciplines within the Engineering Department as they pertain to Combat Systems Engineering. You will take a major role in the engineering and technical management responsibilities for projects, assignments, or programs involving complex, novel, and often unusual problems requiring the extension of the existing state-of-the-art. You will plan, develop, coordinate, and carry out several projects and phases of work involving the efforts of other technical personnel within SUPSHIP and in the contractor's plant. You will review detailed design drawings, shipboard system diagrams, vendor drawings, calculations, test procedures/reports, technical manuals, and purchase technical documents to ensure specification compliance and good engineering practice. You will review contract drawings, Government Furnished Information, Engineering Change Requests/Proposals, and other data and correspondence for completeness, technical accuracy, conflicts in direction and usefulness to the shipbuilder. You will participate in and effectively represent the Supervisor and the Navy as an expert in the field of combat systems in system design reviews and conferences. You will provide expert advice in defining and resolving combat systems, sensors, C41SR, weapons, and/or aviation system problems. You will provide technical support between the Contractor, the Supervisor's office, and Naval and other DOD agencies in the definition and identification of combat systems and equipment problems relating to design performance and testing requirements You will evaluate and perform surveillance of contractor configuration management systems and procedures, including requests for engineering changes, departures from specifications, and classification of waivers, deviations, etc. You will develop field modification requests (FMRs) within authority granted or as directed by higher authority for specification changes. You will provide expert guidance and direction to SUPSHIP, other Government Activities and contractor personnel in coordinating and evaluating the contractor's combat systems testing program. You will participate in shipboard (dockside and at-sea) tests and trials to observe equipment and system performance, and to document and resolve deficiencies.

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.
• You will be required to successfully complete a pre-appointment physical examination.
• 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 perform occasional sea duty.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: As a professional engineer applying a wide range of mechanical engineering principles to support the design, construction, conversion or repair of Naval ships. Examples of qualifying experience may include (1) in-depth understanding and working knowledge of U.S. Naval Shipboard Aviation facilities and associated support systems, interfaces and safety systems, to include installation, testing, and certifications of same; (2) use of installation control drawings and contractor design drawings; (3) the use of contract requirement documents, U.S. Navy requirement documents and other specifications; and (4) the review, update, and/or development of test procedures and test reports. 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 Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR) for all Professional Engineering Positions, 08XX: 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 SUPSHIP GULF COAST P O Box 7003 Pascagoula, MS 39568 US
• Name: LaTonya Jones
• Phone: 228-935-0508
• Email: [email protected]