NUCLEAR ENGINEER.

U.S. Pacific Fleet; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Pacific Fleet seeks an engineer to provide on-site technical support for radioactive waste operations, write and refine instructions, and direct water processing system improvements. You will assist in maintenance, troubleshooting, and deficiency resolution at nuclear facilities.

Responsibilities include supporting external audits, preparing memoranda, and ensuring compliance with security and DoD requirements. Travel to CONUS/OCONUS may be required.

Qualifications

• Professional engineering degree required for the position.
• Experience at GS-11 level or equivalent in engineering.
• Ability to obtain and maintain required security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Provide on-site technical support for processing, accumulation, and storage of liquid, radioactive, and mixed waste.
• Prepare instructions for Nuclear Power Manual Chapters, Task Group Instructions, annual reports and inter-departmental memoranda.
• Provide technical direction for processing, maintaining, and improving the pure water processing system.
• Provide technical on-site support for nuclear facilities maintenance, troubleshooting, and deficiency resolution.
• Prepare and support outside audits and inspections.

Skills

Professional engineer

Nuclear reactor analysis

Process improvement

Technical direction

Education

ABET-accredited engineering degree

Professional Engineer registration

Job description

• You will provide technical on site support for processing, accumulation, and storage of liquid, radioactive, and mixed waste.
• You will prepare instructions for Nuclear Power Manual Chapters, Task Group Instructions, annual reports and inter-departmental Memoranda.
• You will provide technical direction for processing, maintaining, and improving the pure water processing system.
• You will provide technical on site support for nuclear facilities maintenance, trouble shooting, and deficiency resolution.
• You will prepare and support outside audits and inspections.

Duties

• You will provide technical on site support for processing, accumulation, and storage of liquid, radioactive, and mixed waste.
• You will prepare instructions for Nuclear Power Manual Chapters, Task Group Instructions, annual reports and inter-departmental Memoranda.
• You will provide technical direction for processing, maintaining, and improving the pure water processing system.
• You will provide technical on site support for nuclear facilities maintenance, trouble shooting, and deficiency resolution.
• You will prepare and support outside audits and inspections.

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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

Your resume must 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: as a professional engineer analyzing and evaluating engineering methods or procedures for projects related to testing and operation of nuclear reactor plants or related system components to provide technical direction and recommendations for process improvement.

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