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GENERAL ENGINEER (SPECIAL PROJECTS)

Department of the Navy

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Groton, CT
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Job Description

Duties

  • You will serve as a General Engineer (Special Projects) in the Engineering Department of SUPERVISOR OF SHIPBUILDING GROTON
  • You will lead Integrated Process Teams (IPTs) supporting submarine design, conversion, modernization, and other assigned engineering projects.
  • You will explain team goals and objectives, focusing government and contractor resources to rapidly resolve technical program issues.
  • You will collaborate with team members to prioritize critical customer actions and balance limited resources to meet design and construction schedules.
  • You will identify emergent problems, take immediate action to prevent program delays, and minimize government cost impacts.
  • You will initiate measures to minimize costs and improve efficiency without compromising team effectiveness.
  • You will keep supervisors informed of emergent work, workload changes, and impacts to program schedules and key events.
  • You will provide information to support management focus on identifying and mitigating technical and program risks.
  • You will establish and maintain effective relationships with division heads, contractor managers, NAVSEA personnel, and other stakeholders.
  • You will recommend actions, adjustments, or compromises to support program goals and mission requirements.
  • You will provide performance input to division heads and advise team members on assigned project matters.
  • You will review, analyze, research, and prepare correspondence on design deficiencies and determine the technical adequacy of contractor recommendations.
  • You will consult with contractors, participate in technical conferences, and recommend corrective actions for engineering issues.
  • You will provide engineering recommendations, technical comments, and conference representation supporting design, construction, and testing.
  • You will confer with NAVSEA, contractors, and subcontractors to resolve design and construction issues and recommend design and fabrication improvements.
  • You will serve as the SUPSHIP representative on contractor IPTs, facilitating risk identification, mitigation, and ARTEMIS schedule progress.
  • You will guide command personnel in a multi-functional concurrent engineering environment using Integrated Process Teams.
  • You will interpret higher authority directives and implement engineering programs affecting workload, methods, cost, and schedules.
  • You will interface with command elements to resolve technical issues and develop coordinated command positions.
  • You will represent NAVSEA and the command with government agencies and commercial facilities as required.


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
  • 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.
Qualifications

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: As a professional engineer leading technical personnel to evaluate the design and construction projects for nuclear submarines to ensure contractor performance is in compliance with technical and contract specifications.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: AND

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:
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:

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.

Additional information

This announcement uses the Defense Industrial Base, Major Range and Test Facilities direct hire authority to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service.

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

Several vacancies may be filled.

Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees.

A relocation incentive is generally a single payment intended to offset some of the relocation costs experienced by the selectee. A relocation incentive may be authorized.

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.

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: .

Veteran's preference does not apply when selecting individuals under this specific hiring authority. However, if you claim veteran's preference, you will be required to submit supporting documentation with your application as described in the Required Documents section below.
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