You will serve as a General Engineer in the Packaging, Handling, Storage & Transportation (PHS&T) Department within the Engineering and Product Support Directorate (N2) of NAVSUP WEAPON SYSTEMS SUPPORT. This announcement uses the Direct Hire Authority for Certain Personnel of the Department of Defense to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service.

Duties

At the GS-11 level you will perform development duties, as assigned. At the GS-12 level (Full Performance Level) you will perform the duties listed below. You will perform packaging design, engineering support, program management and cost-benefit analyses of packaging and storage systems for Navy Systems Commands. You will formulate plans, organize and resolve complex military packaging problems, and utilize original and innovative efforts. You will ensure packaging requirements developed for equipment and systems provides adequate protection from deterioration while in storage. You will solve mutually difficult problems with innovative resolutions by interfacing with other services or logistics organizations. You will perform engineering design, testing, and development of packaging for Navy Assets, including military packaging codes, Special Packaging Instructions (SPIs), and reusable container development.

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 must obtain and maintain an interim and/or final secret security clearance prior to entrance. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• This position is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA). You must be certified as a Life Cycle Logisitics (LCL) -Foundational. Certification is required within 36 months of appointment.

Qualifications

There are Basic Requirements for a 0801 General Engineer. You must meet the Basic Requirement for this series. See the "Education" section of this announcement for details. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: General Engineering Series 0801. 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. GS-12: Your resume must also 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 applying knowledge of professional general engineering practices and techniques associated with the design and engineering of packaging materials and processes. Example of specialized experience include most or all of the following: 1) Apply packaging design standards that meet industry and military standards; 2) Interpret, organize, and coordinate programs to resolve engineering problems for which there may be no precedents; 3) Revise, develop, and publish agency policies, guidelines, and regulations on design criteria for packaging. 4) Use packaging computer aided design software programs; 5) Conduct cost/trade-off analysis. GS-11: Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector applying knowledge of professional general engineering practices and techniques associated with the design and engineering of packaging materials and processes. Example of specialized experience include some of the following : 1) Apply general knowledge of packaging design standards that meet industry and military standards; 2) Assist with interpreting, organizing, and coordinating programs to resolve engineering problems for which there may be no precedents; 3) Assists with revising and publishing agency policies, guidelines, and regulations on design criteria for packaging; 4) Use packaging computer aided design software programs; 5) Assist in conducting cost/trade off analysis.

Education

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess.

0801 Engineering Series 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.

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 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.)

In lieu of specialized experience, you may qualify with the following education or combination of both education and experience:

GS-11: 3 years of a progressively higher -level graduate education leading to a PH. D Degree

OR

PH. D or equivalent doctoral degree

Such education must have provided the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work

A transcript must be submitted with your application if qualifying using education. See Required Documents for additional information.

GS-12: There is no education substitution in this series at this grade level.

Contacts

• Address NAVSUP WEAPON SYSTEMS SUPPORT Naval Supply Weapon Systems Support 5450 Carlisle Pike Mechanicsburg, PA 17055-0791 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]