MECHANICAL ENGINEER

U.S. Fleet Forces Command; Portsmouth (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Fleet Forces Command in Portsmouth, VA is seeking a Mechanical Engineer for the Maintenance and Waterfront Engineering BR 711 of Norfolk Naval Shipyard.

The role focuses on complex mechanical engineering projects involving Weight Handling Equipment such as dock cranes and related systems. You will draft specifications, conduct field investigations, and prepare cost estimates to support approvals and funding, while reviewing designs from architects and contracting firms to ensure operational

Qualifications

• Experience applying principles of project management, budgeting and contracting requirements.
• Ability to coordinate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience ensuring quality requirements across products and processes.
• Experience analyzing problems and recommending effective solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex mechanical engineering projects on Weight Handling Equipment.
• Conduct and oversee design for mechanical systems including materials and maintenance accessibility.
• Draft specifications for mechanical equipment using standard guide specs.
• Perform field investigations to scope mechanical malfunctions and implement changes.
• Prepare engineering cost estimates and secure funding approvals.
• Review designs by architects and external firms for compliance.

Skills

Project management

Budgeting

Contracting experience

Stakeholder relationships

Education

Professional engineering degree

EI/EIT/PE licensure

FE exam proof

ABET-accredited program

Job description

Summary

You will serve as a MECHANICAL ENGINEER in the MAINTENANCE AND WATERFRONT ENGINEERING BR 711 of NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD.

Duties

• You will be assigned the most complex mechanical engineering projects on Weight Handling Equipment which include various dock cranes, bridge cranes and associated supporting systems and structures.
• You will conduct and oversee engineering design for various types of mechanical systems, satisfy requirements relating to physical arrangement, operational characteristics, required materials, dimensions and accessibility for repair and maintenance.
• You will draft technical portions of specifications for various mechanical equipment and systems using standard guide specifications, revising and rewriting data as required to assure accuracy.
• You will conduct field investigations to determine the scope of reported mechanical malfunctions, make design or procedural change to correct any deficiencies.
• You will define project scope and prepare engineering cost estimates for various mechanical projects to secure approval and funding.
• You will review and recommend approval of mechanical engineering designs prepared by architects and engineering firms under contract to the Government.
• You will review data on nuclear/non-nuclear weightlifting/handling equipment to recommend design or process changes and modifications to ensure optimum operational readiness is maintained.

Requirements

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• 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 successfully complete a pre-appointment physical examination.
• 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.
• 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.
• Field inspections are made of various facilities including dock cranes, stiff leg derrick, enclosure cranes, industrial plants, and drydocks which requires walking, climbing, bending, kneeling, crawling and reaching.

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-11) 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 applying principles, methods, tools for developing, scheduling, coordinating, monitoring, evaluating, and managing contracting and strategy.
• Experience planning projects and resources, including technical performance, budgeting, and adherence to contracting requirements.
• Experience in applying the results of engineering and business research to secure existing products or services or to lead to the development of new products or services.
• Experience in establishing and maintaining relationships with key individuals or groups, both internal to the Government and external organizations.
• Experience and ability to persuade others to build consensus through compromise, gaining cooperation from others to obtain information, finding solutions, and accomplishing goals.
• Experience planning, defining, developing, and documenting quality requirements for products, services, processes and systems that are suitable to the activity, proportional to the risk, and consistent with established Agency guidance, practices, and standards.
• Experience managing programs and fostering an environment that administers all resources in a manner that instills public trust while accomplishing the mission.
• Experience monitoring progress and evaluating outcomes to improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Experience holding self and others accountable to measure high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results.
• Experience determining objectives, sets priorities, and ensures sound project management processes and procedures are in place, ensuring that national interests are well served.
• Experience identifying and analyzing problems; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; seeks/generates and evaluates alternative perspectives/solutions; makes timely/effective recommendations, based on potential implications of findings or conclusions.
• Experience identifying the causes of problems and choosing courses of action that balance the interests of the mission and stakeholders.

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/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf

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:

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.

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 to other hiring managers for 180-days from the date the job announcement closes. Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions.

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

PPP applicants will be placed at the FPL, if determined Well Qualified (WQ). To receive priority consideration, the FPL must be the same grade level or equivalent of the retained grade or the grade held immediately prior to separation.

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. ICTAP candidates must provide copies of all of the following documentation at the time of application: 1) agency notice; 2) most recent performance appraisal; 3) most recent SF-50 or notification of personnel action that includes position, grade level, and duty location. Applicants who do not provide this documentation will not receive consideration as an ICTAP candidate. For more information about ICTAP eligibility please review the following link: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/federal-employees/career-transition/

Military Spouse Preference applicants will be placed at the highest grade for which they have applied and are determined Best Qualified (BQ). A BQ military spouse possesses knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies comparable to others who meet the competitive referral criteria for the specific position.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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