INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER (AEROSPACE / ELECTRONICS / MECHANICAL

Duties

• You will provide technical decisions, engineering advice, and information to members or MRO engineering / Production and Fleet Support Teams (as needed).
• You will provide instructions to inspect, calibrate, or measure components at Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE).
• You will communicate with other government agencies, contractor personnel, and any other sources as necessary to obtain required information.
• You will develop processes, procedures or programs for which no precedence exists.
• You will communicate with the customers daily to assess customer needs and help to resolve measurement / manufacturing issues.

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.
• This position is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA). Certification in the Functional Area and Tier assigned to the position, along with Continuous Learning (CL) points, are required within established timeframes.
• 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.
• This position is eligible for ad-hoc/situational telework at the discretion of management.

Qualifications

For the GS-12: In addition to the Basic Education Requirements for this position, 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. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following:

• Investigating, researching and determining applicability of modifications for engineering program;
• Monitoring performance of engineering technical analyses, engineering investigations, economic analyses and support services provided directly to the operational community;
• Ensuring industrial planning and support of platform systems, components, and field teamwork/maintenance is accomplished efficiently;
• Designing, analyzing, prototypes and implementing comprehensive metrics and models allowing measurement of changes in maintainability and testing/validation of the predictive techniques in order to measure and evaluate program accomplishments, effectiveness, and/or compliance.

For the GS-11: In addition to the Basic Education Requirements for this position, 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. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following:

• Analyzing adjustments to specified service life intervals for aircraft/weapons and equipment;
• Preparing correspondence, technical reports, and instructions for submittal to the FST leadership, other activities and contractors as may be required to answer inquiries, relay or request information, and establish work assignments;
• Compiles and analyzes data to determine failure modes, failure classifications and root cause using advanced data analytic methods; and
• Researching and investigating methodologies for sampling component populations to gain insight into special causes of variation.

For the GS-09: In addition to the Basic Education Requirements for this position, your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experienceat or equivalent to the GS-07 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following:

• Assisting senior engineersresearch and investigate methodologies for sampling component populations to gain insight into special causes of variation; and
• Supporting senior engineers develop engineering/logistics documents, engineering change proposals, technical directives, inspection/maintenance requirements, repairs and redesign of the platform's systems and components.

For the GS-07: In addition to the Basic Education Requirements for this position, your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-05 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following:

• Applying basic engineering concepts and reviewing technical documentation including, but not limited to, engineering drawings and technical manuals

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

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:

For 08XX Series:
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 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.)

Foreign Education: Required for vacancies with Positive Education or Education Substitution: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the qualification requirements if the applicant can provide documentation indicating that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. It is the responsibility of the applicant to provide such evidence when applying for further information, visit:

For GS-11 Successful completion of a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree directly related to the position OR have successfully completed three full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent degree directly related to the position
OR have a combination of experience and education as described above that equates to one year of experience. Your percentage of the required education plus your percentage of the required experience equal one hundred percent.

GS-09: Successful completion of two years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a master's degreedirectly related to the position or master's or equivalent graduate degree directly related to the position

GS-07: Successful completion of one year of graduate-level education directly related to the position
OR
Superior academic achievement

GS-05: Applicants who meet the basic requirements described in the individual occupational requirements are fully qualified for the specified entry grade (generally grade GS-05)

***NOTE: College Transcripts from an accredited University MUST be submitted to show proof the applicant meets education requirements to support basic education and/or substitution for specialized experience.

Additional information

Salary Info

0414 - GS-7 $56,039 -$68,972 / GS-9 $68,549 - $84,371 - AEROSPACE & MECHANICAL ENGINEER
0442 - GS-7 $56,039 -$68,972/ GS-9 $68,549-$84,371 - ELECTRONICS ENGINEER

GS-11 $74,678-$97,087 / GS-12 $89,508-$116,362

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

Several vacancies may be filled.

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.

Military Spouse Preference applicants will receive priority consideration at the Full Performance Level (FPL) and if determined to be Best Qualified at the FPL, and selected, must be placed at the FPL. A BQ military spouse possesses knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies comparable to others who meet the competitive referral criteria for the specific position.

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.

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.