You will serve as a SUPERVISORY INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER (PROGRAM MANAGER) in the New Technologies Branch (Code 100TO.31) located in the Innovation and Technology Insertion Division (Code 100TO.3) located in the Transformation Office (Code 100TO) of NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD.

Duties

You will exercise both administrative and technical supervision over subordinates performing innovation work. You will plan work to be accomplished by subordinates. You will assign work based on priorities and selective consideration of the difficulty the assignment requires. You will review work for attainment of desired outcomes. Establishes performance standards and evaluates performance. You will serve as the technical expert providing direction on all 100TO.31 projects, overseeing technology requirements and rapid innovation efforts. You will provide engineering oversight to maintain a workplace in compliance with the laws, statutes and regulations governing new technology insertion. You will participate in and conduct long-range, intermediate, and emergent planning for the branch’s overall goals.

Requirements

• 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.
• Work is performed in areas where potentially harmful physical and chemical agents are present (e.g. fumes, dust, heat, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and chemicals). You will be required to participate in medical surveillance programs.
• 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.
• Supervisors in the executive branch have a heightened personal responsibility for advancing government ethics. You will be required to review the 14 General Principles of Ethical Conduct at 5 CFR 2635.101.
• 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.

Qualifications

Your resume must 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. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience understanding the organization's mission, shipyard organizational functions, and business processes and practices. Experience with functions, responsibilities, organization, inter-relationships, expectations and the products and services of Shipyard Engineering Departments. Experience with practices for all activities engaged in providing ship repair, maintenance, overhaul, or modernization in a naval shipyard. Experience ensuring both submarine and aircraft carrier safety, and for ensuring quality as related to shipyard programs for repair, maintenance and overhaul of naval ships. Experience with management of cross-command new technology projects at all phases including transition using tools such as technology readiness level (TRL) assessment and technology transfer authorities relating to Laboratory status as applied to a Naval Shipyard to assess suitability of technologies. Experience with engineering principles and practices employed in a naval ship repair maintenance, modernization, and overhaul environment (e.g. Naval architecture, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, combat systems engineering, testing and work controls engineering, fleet technical support, equipment and facilities engineering, and weight handling). Experience identifying capability needs and gaps across diverse projects and to coordinate implementation of new technology into work practices in concert with other industrial trades and technical work. Experience supporting deployment of diverse and dispersed operating systems. Experience leading teams and achieving desired results. Experience with progressive improvement of proficiency in fundamental and leadership competencies needed to lead change, lead people, drive results, improve business acumen, and build coalitions. Experience demonstrating experience applying critical thinking skills in analyzing data, identifying problems and causes, mitigating capacity and capability gaps, and formulating plans to improve management, processes and training. Experience in communicating appropriately, effectively, persuasively, and diplomatically both orally and in writing. Experience performing clear, concise and effective oral presentations, tour high level officials and senior leadership, and written reports consisting of findings, graphs charts, and other supporting documentation. 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 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 NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD NNSY Portsmouth, VA 23709 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]