MARINE TRANSPORTATION SPECIALIST

Duties

• You will serve as a Marine Transportation Specialist maintaining liaison with Military customers, U.S. Navy civilians, and military personnel scheduling and controlling time-chartered vessels to ensure cargo is delivered in a timely manner.
• You will advise and assist Masters, owners, terminal, and shipper services with respect to ship stability, lift capability, and endurance.
• You will formulate and plan the movement of special cargo heavy lift and hazardous cargo moves and approve pre-stow places.
• You will prepare applications for carriage of hazardous cargo in accordance with applicable regulations, ensuring timelines and accuracy for expeditious movement of cargo.
• You will ensure safe marine practices are adhered to both ashore and aboard vessels.
• You will coordinate with appropriate SDDC, U.S. Coast Guard, Navy and safety personnel for the loading and carriage of the hazardous and explosive cargoes in all assigned ports.
• You will monitor message traffic and daily activity sheets looking for changes in ship movement or employment.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• 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.
• This is a bargaining unit position.
• 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.
• You will be required to wear personal protective equipment such as helmets, gloves, coveralls, glasses, goggles, respirators and safety shoes continuously for the duration of the work shift.
• 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-09 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 scheduling and controlling time-chartered vessels to ensure cargo is delivered in a timely manner; ensuring that cargo movement and cargo loading from ship to shore and vice versa.
• Experience formulating and planning the movement of special cargo heavy lifts and hazardous cargo moves and appropriate pre-stow places.
• Experience determining actions to be taken when issues arise when loading the ships due to adverse weather conditions and labor problems of time, voyage, and other special charters.
• Experience conducting on-hire, off-hire, and damage surveys and monitoring contractor performance, analyzing data, recommending charter hire deductions for off-hire or contractual nonconformity, and advising contractors of actions necessary to correct deficiencies.
• Experience preparing applications for carriage of hazardous cargo in accordance with applicable regulations, ensuring timelines, and accuracy for expeditious movement of cargo.

Individual Occupational Requirements per OPM:

Specialized Experience (for positions above GS-5):
For positions other than Marine Transportation, experience in maintaining, retailing, purchasing, or procurement of automotive, rail, air, bus, or other transportation equipment or services, or in the operation of a commercial transportation facility or terminal. This experience must have demonstrated knowledge of fleet operations; familiarity with Federal, State, and municipal regulations governing the use of transportation vehicles; and the maintenance of inventories and cost computations.
For Marine Transportation positions, experience in:

Planning, directing, and supervising cargo or bulk petroleum movements such as:

• Embarkation and debarkation, cargo loading and discharge.
• Formulating marine transportation itineraries and routings according to commercial cost factors and tariffs.
• Formulating marine transportation traffic plans for personnel and cargo.
• Scheduling ships.
• Developing, analyzing, or evaluating cargo lift capabilities.
• Preparing statistics for planning operations of ships or formulating budgetary estimates of cargo transportation costs.
• Serving as a licensed merchant marine deck or engine officer or naval deck or engine officer.

or

Ship chartering negotiation or administration, such as:

• Chartering commercial ships and space.
• Reviewing and approving ship operating and damage expenses and marine insurance premiums.
• Investigating ocean carrier claims for ship damage.
• Reviewing and recommending action on cargo shortage and damage claims.
• Analyzing and applying appropriate precedents and regulations.
• Establishing rates with commercial carriers for special cargoes according to market conditions.
• Analyzing statements of ship operating costs and preparing estimates to adjust rates or determine the most economical method of transportation.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site:

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

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

Successful completion of a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree
OR
Successful completion of 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a doctoral degree
OR
Possession of an LL.M., that is related to this position being filled.
OR
A combination of experience and graduate education as described above that equates to one year of experience

Are you using education as a substitute for some or all of the experience requirement? Is there a basic education requirement for this position? Check the Education section above to see what is allowed and what is required. Any claims you make in your resume regarding education or degrees MUST be supported by submitting with your application official or unofficial transcripts or a list of courses, grades earned, completion dates, and quarter and semester hours earned issued from your school. While unofficial transcripts are acceptable for initial application, an official transcript will ultimately be required if you are selected for the position. You may submit a copy your degree(s) if specific coursework does not have to be verified.

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

Additional information

This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program.

Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement.

A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments.

During the application process you will have the ability to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions in the local commuting area. Depending on the hiring organization and the position being filled, job requirements (e.g., security clearance, travel, drug testing, financial disclosure filing, bargaining unit status, etc.) may vary. Other hiring managers filling similar positions may offer relocation expense reimbursement and/or may offer recruitment incentives for new employees, depending on funding availability and in accordance with policy. If you opt-in and are referred on a certificate, your resume will be available to other hiring managers for 180-days from the date the job announcement closes. Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions.

Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at:

PPP applicants will be placed at the FPL, if determined Well Qualified (WQ). To receive priority consideration, the FPL must be the same grade level or equivalent of the retained grade or the grade held immediately prior to separation.

ICTAP Applicants: To be considered well-qualified and exercise selection priority as an ICTAP candidate, displaced Federal employees must satisfy all qualification requirements for the position and receive a rating in the highly qualified category (score 85) or higher. ICTAP candidates must provide copies of all of the following documentation at the time of application: 1) agency notice; 2) most recent performance appraisal; and 3) most recent SF-50 or notification of personnel action that includes position, grade level, and duty location. Applicants who do not provide this documentation will not receive consideration as an ICTAP candidate. For more information about ICTAP eligibility please review the following link:

Military Spouse Preference applicants will be placed at the highest grade for which they have applied and are determined Best Qualified (BQ). A BQ military spouse possesses knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies comparable to others who meet the competitive referral criteria for the specific position.