ENGINEER/SCIENTIST with Security Clearance

Summary You will serve as an ENGINEER in the PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT of NAVUNSEAWARCENDIV NEWPORT RI
This position is part of the Warfare Centers Personnel Demonstration Project
The ND-04 pay band encompasses positions equivalent to GS-12 and GS-13
Duties
• You will perform a variety of tasks in leading and managing operations, technical projects or programs pertaining to Naval operations as well as fleet Liaison.
• You will be overseeing technical duties and responsibilities in a governmental or military environment, managing ongoing projects on schedule and within defined budget parameters, and having experience in U.S
Navy afloat operations.
• You will liaise with the Program Office and supporting commands by acting as program office representative with OPNAV, USFF, PACFLT, numbered fleets, CTFs, port operations as well as other organizations in execution of assigned missions.
• You will provide periodic, and case driven operational updates, to include Plans of Action and Milestones for all assigned projects.
• You will liaise with Military Sealift Command (MSC) through engagement on all matters pertaining to assigned assets (ships) plus other ships' readiness and support requirements.
• You will manage leased ships' operations and schedules.
• You will manage depot repair facilities and comply with respective regulatory compliance standards in CONUS or deployed through Ships Support Units.
• You will maintain all required Memoranda of Agreement to govern interactions with supporting organizations.
• You will conduct mission planning by managing commercial cable de-confliction and undersea domain awareness.
• You will provide advanced planning and design support for installation and repair of program assets.
• You will coordinate at-sea operations, including sea trials periods, plus test and transmission requirements.
• You will ensure maritime platforms' communications capabilities and manning are sufficient for mission requirements
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 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.
• For the 1550: This position is designated as a Cyber IT/Cybersecurity Workforce position
You must obtain and maintain the credentials as described in SECNAV M-5239.2 for specialty area 632 level INTERMEDIATE within 12 months of appointment.
• This position is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA)
Certification in the Acquisition Functional Area and category assigned to the position is required within established category timeframes.
• Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required
A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or fail the test
You will be subject to random testing.
• This position requires the incumbent to ride/work on surface vessels and submarines.
• This position requires the incumbent to travel and sometimes to foreign locations
Qualifications This is an interdisciplinary position and may be filled by a Mechanical Engineer (0830-series), a Computer Engineer (0854-series), an Electronics Engineer (0855-series), or a Computer Scientist (1550-series) depending upon the qualifications of the candidate
Applicants in positions with occupational series other than those listed (0830, 0854, 0855 and 1550) may apply; however, you must apply directly to the series listed in this vacancy that is most applicable to your qualifications
In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the ND-3 pay band (GS-9/11 equivalency) 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 applying a wide range of theories, concepts, principles, standards, and methods of engineering, test, evaluation and analysis for project efforts related to maritime surveillance
Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series
AND
all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf (opm.gov)
Computer Science Series 1550 (opm.gov)
Electronics Engineering Series 0855 (opm.gov)
Mechanical Engineering Series 0830 (opm.gov)
Computer Engineering Series 0854 (opm.gov) 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 positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess For the ND-08XX, Professional Engineering Series: 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: http://www.nspe.orgOREvidence 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: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html.
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
For the ND-1550, Professional Computer Science Series: A bachelor's degree in computer science.ORA bachelor's or higher degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science
At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must be in a combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus
Additional information For the 1550: This position is designated as a Cyber IT/Cybersecurity Workforce position
You must obtain and maintain the credentials as described in SECNAV M-5239.2 for specialty area 632-SYSTEMS DEVELOPER level INTERMEDIATE within 12 months of appointment
This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program
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