GENERAL ENGINEER

Summary

This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.

Duties

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• You will serve as a General Engineer in the Commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic (CNSL), Material Readiness Directorate (N43).
• You will be the assigned ship owner's representative and authoritative consultant providing oversight, direction, and advisory in the full range of major maintenance/modernization planning and execution.
• You will be the waterfront representative who identifies, validates, prioritizes, and articulates the Type Commander's requirements to the Regional Maintenance Centers.
• You will be the focal point for all maintenance and modernization; the advocate for the assigned ship(s) in maintenance issues with other command activities; and a technical resource for both the ship and the type commander.
• You will serve as the primary engineering technical authority for assigned surface ships, providing lifecycle engineering support to sustain material readiness, safety, reliability, and operational availability.
• You will assess shipboard engineering, hull, mechanical, electrical, auxiliary, and habitability systems to identify material deficiencies, determine root causes, and recommend technically sound corrective actions.
• You will plan, coordinate, and monitor maintenance, modernization, repair, and alteration work during ship availabilities, ensuring work is properly scoped, scheduled, resourced, and executed.
• You will monitor contractor and government performance during maintenance availabilities; identify deficiencies; document findings; and recommend corrective actions to protect Government interests and ship readiness.
• You will maintain awareness of assigned ships' material condition, maintenance status, configuration changes, and casualty-report trends, and provide concise technical status updates to leadership.
• You will prepare engineering analyses, technical correspondence, reports, briefings, and decision papers that clearly communicate complex issues, recommended courses of action, associated risks, and resource implications.
• You will support the development of long-range maintenance and modernization strategies by identifying emergent requirements, evaluating engineering impacts, and prioritizing work to improve fleet readiness.
• You will apply professional engineering judgment to resolve issues involving multiple, interrelated ship systems and competing operational, technical, schedule, and resource constraints.
• You will represent the Port Engineer organization in meetings, planning conferences, technical reviews, and shipboard engagements with internal and external stakeholders.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• 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 subject to work an uncommon tour, including nights, weekends, and holidays to meet mission requirements. Overtime or night differential pay and/or unusual duty hours may be required.
• You will be required to complete ethics orientation within three months of appointment and submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450, within 30 days of appointment.
• 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.
• You will be required to successfully complete a pre-appointment physical examination.
• Incumbent may be required to stand, stretch, walk, bend, stoop, crawl, crouch, climb, and enter confined spaces for long periods.
• Incumbent may have to lift objects over 50 pounds.
• Incumbent may be required to ride Navy Ships at sea.
• Incumbent may be exposed to moderate risks, discomforts and unpleasantness such as climbing of vertical ladders. Entrance into confined spaces, exposure to high temperatures, high winds, and high noise level areas.
• Incumbent may be exposed to flammable liquids, strong odors or fumes from paint, fuels, or chemicals used in the work processes.
• 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.
• Incumbent must be sufficiently computer literate and demonstrate ability to use word processing, electronic spreadsheet, presentation graphics.
• Incumbent must also be able to sufficiently use Message Text Formatter, email and other software products routinely used by Type Desk and Maintenance Management Personnel in the performance of their duties.

Qualifications

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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:

• Experience using marine/mechanical engineering principles to provide authoritative interpretations of guidelines and policies used in repair, maintenance, alteration and modernization of U.S. Navy Ships.
• Experience Serves as an authoritative consultant providing oversight, and advice on major maintenance/modernization planning and execution on U.S. Navy Ships.
• Experience incorporating or proposing ship improvements while considering the latest developments in the modernization/restoration of ship's facilities/equipment.

IN ADDITION TO THE BASIC EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS (SEE EDUCATION SECTION):

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

Education

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.

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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.)

IF CLAIMING EDUCATION, FAILURE TO SUBMIT TRANSCRIPTS/ITEMIZED LIST WILL RESULT IN AN INELIGIBLE RATING. See OPM's General Policies for information on crediting education.

Additional information

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.
• Travel may be by commercial (air, rail, POV, etc.) or government-operator (military aircraft, vessels, or vehicle) or government-chartered carriers, and riding Navy ships at sea.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain a U.S. Passport

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: http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/Documents/CivilianJobs/FedCivAnnuitants.pdf.

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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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Benefits

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