NAVAL ARCHITECT

U.S. Fleet Forces Command; Mayport (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Fleet Forces Command seeks an experienced naval architect engineer to provide highly skilled support as a regional technical authority.

You will advise on ship stability, structural assessments, and complex repairs for major ship classes, including carriers and cruisers, ensuring compliance with NAVSEA standards. The role requires deep naval architecture knowledge, problem solving, and the ability to coordinate with contractors and Navy personnel.

Qualifications

• Expert naval architecture and engineering guidance per US Navy specs or commercial equivalents.
• Experience in producing naval architecture products for ship stability, structural assessments, and repairs.
• Knowledge of Navy specifications/regulations for naval architecture systems.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex ship equipment issues using innovative approaches.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert naval architecture and engineering guidance as a regional authority.
• Serve as NAVSEA representative for shipboard and in-shop technical assistance.
• Deliver naval architecture services for overhaul and repair of major ship classes.
• Advise on material and component acceptability per plans and fabrication.

Skills

Naval architecture

Engineering guidance

Troubleshooting

Ship stability

Education

ABET-accredited engineering degree

Job description

GS-12 - $89,508 - $116,362

Duties

• You will provide highly skilled engineering support and serve as a regional technical authority.
• You will serve as Naval Sea Systems Command representative for shipboard and in-shop technical assistance on problems beyond the capability of organizational level, Intermediate Maintenance Level Activities, and ship repair facilities.
• You will provide naval architecture services in connection with overhaul and repair of major ship classes such as aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, frigates and construction of small boats.
• You will provide engineering guidance in accordance with established NAVSEA Technical Authority policy and generate engineering products regarding reliability, configuration, and system performance.
• You will serve as a naval architecture expert for the activity, acting as a naval architect specialist for the Command, and performing as the advisor relative to the naval architecture field in theory and design.
• You will perform detailed engineering analysis as necessary to solve ship alterations and other problems in the naval architecture field where such problems require the services of an expert troubleshooter.
• You will provide guidance and approval as to the acceptability of proposed substitute material and components based on contractor’s and subcontractor’s plans for fabrication of the substitute.
• You will determine acceptability of laboratory tests performed by contractors, and establishment of engineering requirements and test standards for contractual specifications.
• You will coordinate complex alterations with other engineers and technicians within the activity.
• You will serve as a specialist and technical advisor for review and approval of detailed working plans prepared by contractor engineering staff for ships structures and arrangements.
• You will make oral and written reports on technical topics to engineering technicians, engineers, supervisors, shipbuilding specialists, planners, contractors and Navy personnel.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Shipboard investigation phase of a task involves considerable walking, climbing, and crawling in and around the equipment/system with marginal accessibility being a frequent problem.
• Standing for several hours at a time on hard steel decks also occurs regularly during ship visits.
• Required shipboard inspections expose the employee to moderate discomforts such as excessive heat, high climbing, and high noise levels.
• This position has been identified as one in which shift hours may be changed without three days advance notice and for periods of less than three weeks.
• May be required to conduct surface vessel/submarine at-sea trials and evaluations.
• Required to perform assigned duties at a variety of job sites within commuting area.
• Incumbent’s responsibility to transport oneself in an expeditious manner between job sites in the local area of the incumbent’s permanent duty station with reimbursement of costs in accordance with Joint Travel Regulations.

Qualifications

GS-12

• Experience providing expert naval architecture and engineering guidance in accordance with US Navy specifications and regulations or commercial equivalent.
• Experience generating naval architecture and engineering products regarding ship stability, structural assessments, repair and modification.
• Experience demonstrating knowledge of US Navy Specifications and regulations or commercial equivalent pertaining to design, maintenance, and safety of naval architecture systems.
• Experience utilizing a high degree of innovation to troubleshoot and resolve complex problems in assigned ship equipment.

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/0800/naval-architecture-series-0871/#

and

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

• 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