ELECTRONICS ENGINEER

U.S. Fleet Forces Command; Mississippi; On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NAVOCEANO, operating within the NAVOCEANO Bay St Louis facility, is seeking an Electronics Engineer to support field operations, evaluation, and maintenance of oceanographic, hydrographic, acoustic survey systems and unmanned platforms.

The role includes developing technical documentation, supervising junior staff, and contributing to design, testing, and configuration management across multiple engineering systems.

Qualifications

• Specialized experience providing field support for oceanographic, hydrographic, acoustic survey systems.
• Experience identifying engineering problems, proposing solutions, and briefing senior personnel.
• Experience collecting and analyzing data and presenting findings to leadership.
• Experience assisting engineers with repairing, maintaining, and operating unmanned systems (UxS).
• Experience assisting with designing, interfacing, and testing oceanographic and unmanned instrumentation systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide field support for evaluation and verification of operational requirements of survey systems and unmanned platforms.
• Develop and review technical documentation to support operation and maintenance of systems.
• Guide and oversee junior personnel and electronic technicians.
• Develop and edit drawings and project documents for configuration management.
• Collect data, analyze, and record timely corrective actions for failures.
• Assist with specification development, proposal reviews, and contractor performance evaluations.

Skills

Field support

Engineering problem solving

Data analysis

Unmanned systems

Instrumentation testing

Education

ABET-accredited Engineering degree

Professional registration or licensure (EI/EIT/PE)

FE examination or equivalent

Job description

Summary

You will serve as a ELECTRONICS ENGINEER in the ENGINEERING DEPARMENT (N7) of NAVOCEANO BAY ST LOUIS.

Duties

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• You will provide field support, for the evaluation and verification of operational requirements of oceanographic/hydrographic/acoustic survey systems, and other systems incorporated in NAVOCEANO's Shipboard Mission Systems and Unmanned systems.
• You will develop and review technical documentation to support system operation and maintenance.
• You will provide guidance and oversight to junior personnel and electronic technicians.
• You will develop and edit drawings and project documentation relevant to configuration management for various engineering systems.
• You will collect data, analyze, and record timely corrective action for all system failures.
• You will assist with specification development, proposal review, contractor performance evaluation, and/or contractor pay confirmation.

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.
• 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
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• 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.
• 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). You will be required to participate in medical surveillance programs.
• 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 obtain and maintain a U.S. Passport.
• You will be required to perform occasional sea duty.

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 GS-09 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 providing field support for oceanographic/hydrographic/acoustic survey systems.
• Experience identifying engineering problems, finding solutions, and recommending solutions to senior personnel.
• Experience collecting data, analyzing data, and presenting findings to senior personnel.
• Experience assisting senior engineers with repairing, maintaining, and operating multiple unmanned systems (UxS).
• Experience assisting senior engineers with designing, interfacing, and testing oceanographic, hydrographic, and unmanned instrumentation 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

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/electronics-engineering-series-0855/

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 posses:

• 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.

OR

• 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:
• 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 of 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.)

Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise.

• TRANSCRIPTS ARE REQUIRED TO SHOW PROOF OF MEETING EDUCATION REQUIREMENT SHOWN ABOVE***

Additional information

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.

During the application process you will have the ability to opt‑in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions in the local commuting area. Depending on the hiring organization and the position being filled, job requirements (e.g., security clearance, travel, drug testing, financial disclosure filing, bargaining unit status, etc.) may vary. Other hiring managers filling similar positions may offer relocation expense reimbursement and/or may offer recruitment incentives for new employees, depending on funding availability and in accordance with policy. If you opt‑in and are referred on a certificate, your resume will be available