ENGINEER OR SCIENTIST with Security Clearance

Summary You will serve as a senior Engineer or Scientist in the COMBAT SYSTEMS FUTURE CAPABILITIES BRANCH of the COMBAT SYSTEMS ACQUISITION DIVISION in the USW COMBAT SYSTEMS DEPARTMENT for NAVUNSEAWARCENDIV NEWPORT RI
Duties
• You will serve as a senior Electronics/Mechanical/Computer and Systems engineer, performing engineering tasks involving the research, design,operation, maintenance and development of new USW Combat Systems technologies and capabilities.
• You will be responsible for working with and leading a project team in the development of USW Combat Systems, conducting testing, providing various test support to the system, and related subsystems and components.
• You will be responsible for planning and carrying out assignments, coordinating with others as necessary, and interpreting policy for established objectives.
• You will generate system and subsystem requirements in concert with fleet, sponsor, and expert stakeholder engagement.
• You will review and analyze system requirement specifications and technical design review packages.
• You will provide recommendations for future system enhancements based on analytic findings
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.
• 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
• 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 671 level INTERMEDIATE within 12 months of appointment
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), Mathematics (1520- 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, 1520and 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 and GS-11 equivalency) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector
Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: As a professional engineer or scientist applying a wide range of theories, concepts, principles, standards, and methods of engineering, test, evaluation and analysis for project efforts related to Submarine Combat Control Systems
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 Individual Occupational Requirements:
all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf (opm.gov)
Mathematics Series 1520 (opm.gov)
Computer Science Series 1550 (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 basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: 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.org
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: 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-1520, Professional Mathematics Series: A degree in mathematics or the equivalent of a major that included at least 24 semester hours in mathematics.
OR
A combination of education and experience demonstrated by courses equivalent to a major in mathematics (including at least 24 semester hours in mathematics, plus appropriate experience or additional education
For the ND-1550, Professional Computer Science Series: A bachelor's degree in computer science.
OR
A 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 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
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 671-SYSTEM TESTING & EVALUATION SPECIALIST level INTERMEDIATE within 12 months of appointment
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
If you are unable to apply online and request information about the Alternate Application process, please contact the Department of Navy's Employment Information Center
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 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
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