Job opening: GENERAL ENGINEER
Salary: $44 709 - 71 999 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Sep 25 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This public notice flyer notifies applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer. Please follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.
(see Additional Info section for further details)
Duties
You will investigate and resolve maintenance standard feedback reports.
You will prepare and maintain Hull, Mechanical, and Electrical Test procedures, Combat Systems Test procedures, and Pre-Arrival tests.
You will provide technical support to submarine maintenance activities.
You will develop and maintain technical documents, and respond to program manager identified issues, support timely procurement and/or refurbishment of equipment.
You will examine changes and revisions to system specifications, technical manuals, ShipAlts, etc. to assess impact on maintenance and test document products.
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.
- This is a bargaining unit position.
- 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
For the GS-05: You must meet the basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual as indicated in the Education Section of this announcement.
For the GS-07: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-05 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional engineer providing maintenance and engineering support for systems applicable to all nuclear submarine classes, surface ships or other power plants.
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=Group-Standards
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:
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
OREvidence 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.
Education
may be substituted for specialized experience as follows for the GS-07 grade level only:
- successful completion of one full year of graduate education https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/students/federal-occupations-by-college-major/; -OR-
- successful completion of a bachelor's degree with superior academic achievement; -OR
- a combination of education and applicable experience that equates to one year of experience.
- successful completion of an engineering bachelor's degree and have one year of appropriate experience as a technician equivalent to the GS-05 grade level or higher.
- successfully completed a 5 year program of study of at least 160 semester hours leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering.
NOTE: official transcripts must be provided to support education and substitution for specialized experience.
Contacts
- Address SUBMEPP ACTIVITY
PO Box 2500
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Portsmouth, NH 03804-2500
US
- Name: Shanika Thompson
- Phone: 202-577-2527
- Email: [email protected]
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