You will serve as a Engineering Manager in the Materials Division in the Ship Integrity and Performance Engineering Group of the Naval Systems Engineering Directorate of NAVSEA HQ FIELD SUPPORT, supporting the work of the Fuels and Lubes Technical Warrant Holder. This position is part of the Department of Defense Civilian Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project. The NH-4 broadband level encompasses positions equivalent to GS-14 and GS-15.

Duties

You will support the Command's execution of technical authority in the area of fuels and lubricants across the Fleet. You will be called upon to represent the Fuels and Lubricants Technical Warrant Holder (TWH) and may be assigned signature authority, as appropriate, in support of the Command's execution of technical authority. You will effectively and efficiently adjudicate deviations from specifications for fuels and lubricants technology used in the operation of ships and submarines. You will reach conclusions on critical matters with limited information and significant time constraints. You will conduct technical risk assessments related to fuels and lubricants as well as conduct cost reduction efforts supporting improved affordability in shipbuilding and repair. You will plan, coordinate, and manage various phases of work being accomplished by technical specialists, including ability to integrate work into a final conclusion or comprehensive report. You will support the Fuels and Lube TWH in providing national stewardship for fuels and lubricants used in ship and submarine operations, including technology and workforce development. You will apply design, construction, and maintenance information in development and management of Research and Development programs for fuels and lubricants. You will develop and recommend approval of ship requirements, policies, specifications, systems design, engineering analyses, research and development requirements, audit requirements, and verification processes and procedures.

Requirements

• You will support the Command's execution of technical authority in the area of fuels and lubricants across the Fleet.
• You will be called upon to represent the Fuels and Lubricants Technical Warrant Holder and may be assigned signature authority, as appropriate, in support of the Command's execution of technical authority.
• You will effectively and efficiently adjudicate deviations from specifications for fuels and lubricants technology used in the operation of ships and submarines.
• You will reach conclusions on critical matters with limited information and significant time constraints.
• You will conduct technical risk assessments related to fuels and lubricants as well as conduct cost reduction efforts supporting improved affordability in shipbuilding and repair.
• You will plan, coordinate, and manage various phases of work being accomplished by technical specialists, including ability to integrate work into a final conclusion or comprehensive report.
• You will provide national stewardship for fuels and lubricants used in ship and submarine operations, including technology and workforce development.
• You will apply design, construction, and maintenance information in development and management of Research and Development programs for fuels and lubricants.
• You will develop and approve ship requirements, policies, specifications, systems design, engineering analyses, research and development requirements, audit requirements, and verification processes and procedures related to fuels and lubricants.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the pay band NH-03 (GS-13 equivalent) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: as a professional engineer leading studies for materials analysis (e.g. fuels and lubricants) and design of ships or submarines to improve cost, performance and safety. 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 NAVSEA HQ FIELD SUPPORT 1333 Isaac Hull Avenue SE Washington, DC 20376 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]