You will serve as a RESEARCH BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER in the Warfighter Performance Department of the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory (NSMRL) of NAVSUBMEDRSCHLAB NEW LONDON CT. Salary Range: GS-13 $116,510 - $151, 467 GS-14 $137,680 - $178,986

Duties

You will apply technical expertise to writing research proposals and grant solicitations and obtain funding from sponsoring agencies. You will conduct multi-disciplinary research in the field of basic and applied biomedical science. You will serve as both a project leader and as an individual investigator and prepare written products that provide and explain scientific information. You will lead multi-disciplinary science and engineering teams, consisting of government civilian personnel and contractors, throughout the life of various research projects within cost and schedule constraints. You will design, fabricate, and test specialized research equipment: For example, perform tests, surveys, investigations, and/or experiments; obtain raw data, assemble analytic data sets, gathers test/survey/ experiment results. You will give at least 10% of time to consultation with the operational forces, Naval Sea Systems Command, U.S. Coast Guard, and other members of the diving and submarine communities. You will plan, conduct, and manage U.S Navy and other military service human factors, submarine medical, and diving bio-effects research programs.

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 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-14: 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-13 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 researching underwater acoustics and the effects of noise exposure on humans and animal models; Experience writing and editing technical and scientific research information products to publish articles, reports, and presentations in scientific journals and meetings; Experience developing and evaluating appropriate methodologies for experiments using expert knowledge and understanding of research design, research controls, and research statistics; AND Experience utilizing current scientific methodologies in literature and theory and creatively adapting these to design and conduct novel research that provides innovative solutions to the Fleet's most demanding problems FOR THE GS-13: 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. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience assisting with the research of underwater acoustics and the effects of noise exposure on humans and animal models; Experience helping write and edit technical and scientific research information products to publish articles, reports, and presentations in scientific journals and meetings; Experience utilizing general knowledge and understanding of research design, research controls, and research statistics to help develop and evaluate appropriate methodologies for experiments; AND Experience aiding with designing and conducting novel research that provides innovative solutions to the Fleet's most demanding problems. 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 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

Basic Requirements:

A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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.

OR

B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:
1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1 , 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 example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional 1 For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org. 2 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. 2 registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
4. Related curriculum -- 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 1 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)

Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise.

Contacts

• Address NAVSUBMEDRSCHLAB NEW LONDON CT SUBASE NLON, Box 900 Groton, CT 06349 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]