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Duties

You will serve as a Senior Electrical Engineer in the Engineering Department of the Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair (SUPSHIP), Groton, CT. You will perform contractor surveillance and review, evaluate, and/or recommend changes for nuclear powered submarines under design, construction, overhaul, or repair. You will facilitate the identification and mitigation of Fly-By-Wire (FBW) Ship Control System (SCS) design, construction and program risks. You will determine engineering adequacy of shipboard FBW SCS as shown on cabling, block, schematic diagrams, and on arrangements, wiring table, wire way arrangement and routing, electrical hull fittings design and installation, and vendor drawings. You will ensure contractor compliance with contractual requirements governing the design, installation and testing of Special Emphasis Program (SEP) Electrical/Electronic Systems on assigned ships. You will review and resolve SEP design modifications, installation deficiencies, test failures, material failures, and test forms. You will prepare engineering correspondence on the design, overhaul, repair, testing, fabrication and operation of system components from reports and letters received. You will coordinate and collaborate in engineering investigations to resolve Electrical/Electronic subsystem related problems. You will coordinate gathering information on test conduct, equipment casualties and other pertinent subjects to be submitted in report form to the incumbent's supervisor at trial completion. You will review and determine the engineering adequacy of shipboard systems. You will advise on the correction of system or component operating deficiencies, system, component, or shipboard design improvements and shipbuilding or system specification deviations. You will represent SUPSHIP Groton at conferences and meetings as required with counterparts from other departments, the contractor, ship's force, NAVSEA and other Navy activities. You will evaluate or develop engineering and or technical solutions for Government and contractor furnished equipment deviations, waiver requests and component substitutes. You will evaluate test procedures, specifications and system requirements documents for engineering and technical adequacy, conformance with contract and quality requirements and approval. You will review and prepare engineering and technical recommendations for the approval of technical manuals, shipbuilding specifications, technical specifications and purchase specifications. You will witness testing and evaluate data to determine the extent of problem or verify the adequacy of system performance. You will determine the best methods of implementing installation, maintenance, repair, and quality assurance procedures within the scope of applicable contract specifications.

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 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.
• 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.

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 as a professional engineer providing technical advice, guidance, or recommendations for the design, installation, or testing of electrical/electronic systems, equipment, or components for ship or submarine construction efforts. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: Electrical Engineering Series 0850 (opm.gov) 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 SUPERVISOR OF SHIPBUILDING GROTON 73 Eastern Point Road Groton, CT 06340-4990 US
• Name: Theresa Tabor
• Phone: (202) 944-0825
• Email: [email protected]