NUCLEAR ENGINEER.

U.S. Pacific Fleet; Bremerton (WA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Pacific Fleet is seeking an experienced educator to design and deliver reactor plant qualification training for engineers and technicians. The role involves developing curricula, preparing materials, and maintaining qualification records in compliance with NAVSEA requirements.

The position requires presenting lectures, assisting students, and coordinating facilities, staff, and examinations to ensure comprehensive training and operational readiness within a DoD framework.

Qualifications

• Specialized experience must demonstrate developing engineering curricula and providing classroom instruction for nuclear reactor work.
• Experience monitoring trainee performance to ensure qualifications are met for operational readiness.
• Experience working within Navy/DoD training environments and using NAVSEA standards is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design training courses to meet management and reactor qualification objectives.
• Prepare lesson plans, training aids, and examinations for reactor plant qualification training.
• Maintain and organize personnel qualification files per NAVSEA requirements.
• Review and update training materials based on changes to reactor plant manuals and component manuals.
• Present lectures and assist students with study materials.
• Coordinate scheduling of facilities, supplies, manuals, and staff for course preparation and assessment.

Skills

Curriculum development

Classroom instruction

Training needs assessment

Lecture delivery

Education

ABET-accredited engineering degree

Professional Engineer licensure or EIT/I

Job description

• You will design training course to meet management training objectives.
• You will generate correspondence related to qualifications status of personnel at the Shipyard.
• You will prepare lesson plans, training aids and examinations for Reactor Plant Qualification training for engineers, technicians, and others.
• You will maintain personnel qualification files as required by NAVSEA and the management team.
• You will review changes to Reactor Plant Manuals and component technical manuals and modifies lesson material accordingly.
• You will present lectures and assists students with study material.
• You will design training courses to meet management training objectives.
• You will coordinate the scheduling of facilities, supplies, manuals and staff for preparation, teaching, written examination preparation, review approval and grading for the course.

Duties

• You will design training course to meet management training objectives.
• You will generate correspondence related to qualifications status of personnel at the Shipyard.
• You will prepare lesson plans, training aids and examinations for Reactor Plant Qualification training for engineers, technicians, and others.
• You will maintain personnel qualification files as required by NAVSEA and the management team.
• You will review changes to Reactor Plant Manuals and component technical manuals and modifies lesson material accordingly.
• You will present lectures and assists students with study material.
• You will design training courses to meet management training objectives.
• You will coordinate the scheduling of facilities, supplies, manuals and staff for preparation, teaching, written examination preparation, review approval and grading for the course.

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.
• 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. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• 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.
• Candidate must possess experience in the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program (NNPP).
• Candidates must have a background of operational experience and technical training.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-11) or pay band in the federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: as a professional engineer developing engineering curricula, providing classroom instruction or procedures for nuclear reactor work, and monitoring trainee performance to ensure qualifications are met to support and meet operational readiness.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:

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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 possess:

• 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 underpinning 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: 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 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.

OR

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, District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

OR

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.

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 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.

Additional information

This announcement uses the Defense Industrial Base, Major Range and Test Facilities direct hire authority to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service.

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.

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.

A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.

Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.