Naval Architect

We are seeking a highly skilled Naval Architect to join our team at the U.S. Pacific Fleet. As a key member of our organization, you will be responsible for developing technical proposals, analyzing methods to submarine structural design, and preparing and/or evaluating detailed working drawings.

• Develop technical proposals for presentation to management and sponsors, establishing contact with managerial and technical personnel for the purpose of providing or exchanging information on urgent production and technical problems.
• Analyze methods to submarine structural design and formulate stress design for hull structures and equipment foundations that tie into hull structures.
• Prepare and/or evaluate detailed working drawings for the ship's basic characteristics, mechanical systems, electrical installations and systems, hull piping and air conditioning, hull fitting arrangement, and interior arrangement.
• Determine ship design and calculations for existing ships being altered by means of conversion, rebuilding, modernization, or repair and for new ships.
• Develop technical proposals for presentation to department management and sponsors while establishing contact with managerial and technical personnel within shipyard, other shipyards, and U.S. Navy activities.
• Develop detailed technical specifications, quality assurance, test requirements, drawings, and the application design of nuclear and non-nuclear surface ships and submarines undergoing overhaul, modification, conversion, or repair.
• Prepare the preliminary ship design with the delineation of the lines, displacement and stability calculations, general arrangement plans, weight calculations, and strength calculations.

• Must be a U.S. 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.
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level.
• 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 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.
• Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required.
• You will be subject to random testing.
• 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.
• Work is performed in areas where potentially harmful physical and chemical agents are present (e.g. fumes, dust, heat, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and chemicals).
• 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 may be required to lift and carry items and climb ladders.
• You will be required to successfully complete a Counter-Intelligence Polygraph on a random basis.
• MSP/PPP applicants must currently hold the required security clearance.

Your resume must 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 as a professional Naval Architect developing technical specifications, test requirements, calculations, and drawings to resolve critical design issues on nuclear and non-nuclear surface ships and submarines undergoing overhaul, modification, conversion, or repair.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.