NAVAL ARCHITECT with Security Clearance

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Job description

Duties You will review repair and modernization proposals and procedures. You will investigate complex and diverse engineering problems during ship overhauls and availabilities presented in inspection deficiency reports and condition found reports submitted by production contractors, and ship force work requests. You will investigate issues related to dissimilar materials used on naval vessels. You will evaluate non-standard conditions on naval ship structures and determine impact to overall effectiveness of the structure. You will review and evaluate the stability (weights and moments) of the ship during overhaul periods. You will evaluate degraded ship structure with the purpose of finding root cause and developing repair plans to restore to a full operational condition. 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 successfully complete a pre-appointment physical examination. 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. You will be required to perform occasional sea duty. 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 is an obligated position. The former incumbent has return rights to this position under PL 86-585. Qualifications For the GS-09: Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the (GS-07) grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional Engineer prepare detailed designs and engineering calculations relating to hull structure for the repair, conversion or alterations of ship systems and components. For the GS-07: Your resume must also 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 as a professional Engineer assisting with preparing reports and recommendations to select identifying materials or adapting plans for the repair, conversion or alterations of ship systems and components. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: 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: 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: 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: 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. In lieu of specialized experience, you may qualify with the following education or combination of both education and experience: For the GS-09 Grade Level: successful completion of a master's or equivalent graduate degree; -OR- successful completion of two full years of progressively higher graduate level education leading to a master's degree; -OR- a combination of experience and education as described above that equates to one year of experience. For the GS-07 Grade Level: successful completion of one full year of graduate level education; -OR- successful completion of a bachelor's degree with superior academic achievement; -OR- a combination of experience and education as described above that equates to one year of experience. 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. 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. The position often requires irregular hours. This position requires exposure to high noise levels. This is an obligated position. The former incumbent has return rights to this position under PL 86-585. Vacancies filled from this announcement may be filled at any grade level listed. If selected below the full performance level, you may be noncompetitively promoted to the next higher grade level after meeting all regulatory requirements, and upon the recommendation of management. Promotion is neither implied nor guaranteed. The shipboard investigation phase of a task involves considerable walking, climbing and crawling in and around the systems/equipment with marginal accessibility being a frequent problem. Standing for several hours at a time on hard steel decks occurs regularly during ship visits. The work involves regular and recurring exposure to moderate risks and discomforts (heat, humidity, noise, confined spaces, aloft with harnesses). The work regularly involves frequent exposure to hazardous electrical voltages, large rotating machinery elements, electromagnetic radiation from high powered transmitters, nuclear radiation in and around machinery spaces aboard nuclear powered ships, explosive, flammable or incendiary materials, work inside boile

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